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In Support of an Incarnational Model of Missions

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I have been reading the book by Ott, Strauss, and Tennent, Encountering Theology of Mission. Chapter 4 has a fairly large section that speaks about Incarnational Missions. This is missions that is understood via the metaphor (or model) of the Incarnation of Christ. It seems like the authors look at this understanding of missions positively. …

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As a Little Child? Serving God Way Out of One’s “Comfort Zone”

On By missionmusingsIn Chaplaincy/CPE, Missions as Vocation2 Comments

One of the more poignant stories to me in the Bible is where children were being brought to Jesus and the disciples were trying to fend them and their parents off. Jesus steps in and welcomes them and notes that all of us, in some sense, must come to Him as a little child. Recent …

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