Terrorism and Evangelism
Here's another little helpful and challenging quote I read in Total Church. At present the military and economic might of Western nations is struggling to counter the threat of international terrorism. It is proving difficult to defeat an enemy made up of local cells working toward a common vision with high autonomy but shared values (p. 109) The parallel should be obvious. The problem with the Christian church is that it doesn't exactly have shared values. May God by His grace and for His...
“You Are Now Entering the Mission Field”
I found this little excerpt from Total Church to be a challenging source of wisdom. May God help me to apply these insights. I'm not sure I have good answers to all these questions. We sometimes ask people to imagine they are part of a church-planting team in a cross-cultural situation in some other part of the world: What criteria would you use to decide where to live? How would you approach secular employment? What standard of living would you expect as pioneer missionaries? What would you...
Wow!
Wow! No doubt businesses will arise that will do what this guy did for a fee. I don't think I could get away with it, and I'm not yet sure I would want to. I'd like to hear what the guy has to say after reading Technopoly and after a few years of experience. I don't mean that as a challenge; I'd really like to hear his thoughts.
Faith, Hope, and Love, These Three
Ἀγάπη (agape) love is often said to be an action given independent of the worth of the person loved. But if you follow the exegetical data, it's more like "faith," which all recognize is worth only as much as its object. Hope is the same.
Missions and Money
A thought-provoking article excerpted on the blog of a missionary I respect and love.