By Chuckk Gerwig Tattoo is a language of sorts; a language of ink under flesh. Tattoo is an idiom of ancient and emerging generations. If we are to reach people of every tongue, tribe and nation (see Revelation 7:9), it will be necessary to speak the languages of the various emerging tribes. Many people today […]
By The Rev. Canon Andrew White Here, in one of the most dangerous places in the world, the gospel is simple: we love God because he first loved us. We had lunch with one of the Archbishops in Baghdad last week to talk about the struggle Christians in Iraq have and the way the […]
By The Rev. Canon Andrew White The key purposes of the Church are to share Jesus, bring redemption, change lives and take risks. Challenged by Redemption After the church council ended, we found ourselves seriously challenged. Yes, I was challenged like I had never been at any church meeting before. My mind went back to […]
June 2008 By Jonny Baker If we are to reach Europe’s youth, we need to cultivate and encourage leaders to have a type of missional imagination. In the United Kingdom, there have been two recent research projects into the spirituality of 14 to 25-year-olds.1 Both were based on personal interviews with groups of young […]
March 2008 By Daniel Kim The beautiful essence of the gospel is its flexibility and divine capability to root in any culture or people group. Personal Evaluation About ten years ago a new missionary engaging in language and cultural learning in Asia thoughtlessly threw a surprising question to a senior missionary: “Why can’t they […]
April 2008 By U. Obed For example, the said phenomenon identifies Africa’s crucial spiritual challenge for this moment. However, it may point to a possible global problem yet unacknowledged by many Western Christian leaders. I argued in June 2006 that the “one mile wide and one inch deep” phenomenon was a direct outcome of Africa’s […]
April 2008 By U. Obed But the fact remains that making converts among the unreached people groups and planting churches in every hamlet on this globe cannot necessarily equate to making disciples of all nations. The Challenge of Declining Spirituality The research of Johnstone and Mandryk not only indicated that the twentieth century Church prospered […]
April 2008 By U. Obed To be contextually realistic, we adopted a sponsorship approach different from any Western style. Through our Partial Missionary Sponsorship Program (PMSP), our church developed an increasing sponsorship capacity, and we are now supporting more missionaries. In 2007, we spent about $6.2 million NGN ($58,000USD) on 240 missionaries across our nation. […]
April 2008 By U. Obed Africa’s incommensurate growth of spirituality has been described as “one mile wide and one inch deep.” In Operation World: 21st Century Edition (2001), Patrick Johnstone and Jason Mandryk reported that the twentieth century global Church was very successful in her pursuit of evangelizing the world. In that period of […]
By Kristen Jack When we come into a situation of great need, such as that found in Phnom Penh, and we want to see deep and abiding change for the better, the first thing we should do is seek a few good people. After more than ten years of living with Servants to Asia’s […]
