Archive for ‘December, 2009

Making a Difference: OneStory

by roger

If I was just now starting out in missions,  I would give serious consideration to joining a “OneStory” team.  (Watch the video that follows).  These teams spend two years in a specific unreached people group developing stories and songs that communicate the Gospel to non-literate people.  This project is a partnership between several agencies (check [...] Read more »

The Agony and the Ecstacy by Tony Dale

by jackie
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Tony reveals a challenge for us in simple church that I’d love to hear your comments on: “The Agony and The Ecstacy: This 1961 best-seller by Irvine Stone, later made into a famous Hollywood movie, is the story of Michaelangelo. I love the title, and I have used it hear because I [...] Read more »

Mission: an Explosion of JOY

by roger
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Lesslie Newbigin, one of the great mission’s thinker of our day, expresses well that mission flows from joy not a sense of religious “duty”: There has been a long tradition which sees  the mission of the Church primarily as obedience to a command. It has been customary to speak of “the missionary mandate.” This way [...] Read more »

Update from Joel News – Unstoppable House Church Movement

by jackie
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JOEL NEWS INTERNATIONAL 2 DECEMBER 2009 1. Global: House church movement seems unstoppable 200 Christian leaders from 40 nations met in New Delhi, India, Nov [...] Read more »