I am teaching Contemporary Missions at our seminary, and as I am doing so, I am realizing there are many things changing rapidly that means I probably need to (finally) move on from Stan Guthrie's book "Missions in the Third Millenium" as required reading. Good book, but the class is CONTEMPORARY issues rather than TWENTY …
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Reflections on Power and Powerlessness
I have struggled in my own heart and mind regarding the issue of Power and Powerlessness in the Christian Life and in Ministry. I have heard so many preachers who love to talk about receiving the POWER of God (and Yes, they will emphasize the term completely out of proportion to its value, in my …
Praying for WEAK Christian Missions
Missions tends to reflect the mindset of the missionaries, and the mindset of the missionaries tends to reflect the mindset of the churches they come from, and the mindset of these churches tend to reflect the surrounding culture. Since missionaries during the "Great Century" of Missions and into the 1900s, Christianity has had a triumphalistic …