For the past two weeks I have been in Thailand visiting three different ministries. The Globalscope campus ministry house at Thammasat University in Bangkok was flooded for weeks. Indeed the whole university was under four to five feet of water. By the time I arrived the campus house was fully cleaned up and ready [...]
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Like many others, I was a fan of John Stott. The first I knew of John Stott was when I was a youth minister at the Trent Church of Christ in Dexter, Oregon. I was attending Northwest Christian College and had come across his book Basic Christianity. The text was a great one to use in preparing lessons [...] We (CMF) are involved in research to minster with local partners in a ministry among the urban poor in a Latin American country. There has been “on the ground” research by some on our staff while I have been focusing on library research (pretty much, my own library, that is). Back in college and seminary days I [...] In the last thirty five years there have been basically three paradigms in missions: evangelism, discipleship, and justice. On a theoretical level, in the classroom, and even in the churches, it was easy to fall into the trap of seeing these paradigms as in opposition to one another. To generalize, those following the evangelism paradigm made the purpose [...] |
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