Here is an excellent post titled “Looking for the Poor in the Suburbs: 10 Ways to Engage Missions in the Suburbs” from David Fitch at Reclaiming the Mission. Fitch acknowledges the difficulty of identifying the poor (in spirit and well as in wealth) in the suburbs. However he writes that as he walked and prayed [...]
Archive for May, 2008
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“For all its challenges, postmodernism presents the church with a tremendous missional opportunity. By learning to minister from the margins, the church will rediscover the true power of the gospel.” – Craig Van Gelder
Here are two excellent presentations from Reggie McNeal recorded at the Reformed Church in America’s One Thing Conference last February. While McNeal’s presentations are always laced with an abundance of humor, he never fails to present a great challenge to the church to struggle deeply with why and how the church functions. These two sessions [...]
Concerning A “Theology of Mission”
Posted: 19th May 2008 by Brad Brisco in Books, Missiology, MissionalComments Off
Is there, in the light of the present state of theology of the Old and New Testament, any occasion to speak of a separate “theology of mission”? One can maintain this, it seems to me, only if one misunderstands the Church as well as mission. The Church which has been chosen out of the world [...]
The purpose of the formation of these communities, initiated by Jesus with his disciples and continued by the apostles, was not to create enclaves of the pure and the righteous who lived in legalistically defined isolation from their polluted environments. These communities were to demonstrate before the world the nature of the love and healing [...]
Alan Hirsch, in The Forgotten Ways, shares a concept called “cultural distance.” It can be applied to missions and church in the sense that certain people and groups are really close to the gospel and others are very far away. That is, some share much of what evangelical Christians hold dear, so all you need [...]
Here are two short video clips worth checking out. The first is from Alan Roxburgh and Allelon from the Euro Church Conference in Lisbon last month. The clip is about 10 minutes long and deals primarily with questions concerning church, mission and the gospel in the European context. In my opinion the best part of [...]
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In light of yesterday’s post on “Hearing the Bible Missionally” here is another good link from Tyndale University College and Seminary where they present five key questions (taken from the work of the GOCN) that will assist those studying the Bible to shift to a missionally-oriented approach to a specific text. For more on this topic you [...]