RELIEF!! I started working on my book on Missions Theology back in 2016. I killed the book a year or two later. Then in COVID I decided to start working on it again. And now I am done. It is not perfect... but it says what I want to say. I decided to put the …
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Two or three years ago, I was reading Rodger Bassham's book on Mission Theology. The full name of the book is Mission Theology: 1948-1975 Years of Worldwide Creative Tension: Ecumenical, Evangelical and Roman Catholic It speaks of the development of Ecumenical or Conciliar missions during this time especially and how Evangelical missions broke away in …
I finished teaching an 8-week course in Theology of Missions at Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary. I wasn't sure how best to do this, since this is the first time I have taught the course, and it is the first time it has been taught at our school. So I decided to hit as much as …
OKAY... CONFESSION TIME. I have a job in a missions organization (administrator of a Christian Counseling and Training Center). I also have had a role as missions director in more than one local church. I found myself drifting away from doing good work as missions director. Why? Because the churches had relatively little interest in …
Numbers matter, on some level at least, but I believe we all know that numbers are highly limited in their ability measure what matters. I remember a Dilbert Cartoon (November 21, 1994) where Dogbert suggested that corporate health can best be measured by employee turnover rate. The “pointy-haired boss” (PHB) noted that their turnover rate …
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