Tim Chester gives us a timely and helpful counter-weight to individualistic presentations of the Gospel. How would you tell it this Christmas?
Tim Chester reports on a Radstock Vision Trip in Albania last month, and comments on the highlights.
What’s striking about how Paul engages in mission (see partners in mission part one and part two) is how Paul consistently puts the local church at the heart of mission. Think for a moment about his approach. 1. Paul is sent by a local churchPaul is sent by a local...
In a previous post we looked at the importance of partnership between churches not dependence. We saw how in Galatians 1-2 Paul resisted any claims that the Gentile churches were unequal partners with the church in Jerusalem or under its authority. But what about 2:2? ‘I went there...
Last month, together with some of our younger leaders, I spent a week in the Balkans with Brian Jose. Brian had many stories of people from the West turning up in the Balkans, expecting to ‘do’ mission for local churches. He asks them, ‘Would you let an Albanian take over your...
A UK couple in northern Iraq share the joys and sorrows of a people celebrating Cejin Qorban.
How to begin? Four weeks in and we began to hit a communication barrier. As each day went by we quickly realised that it was impossible to convey what we wanted… not to our friends here but to all our loved ones back in the UK. Early on we began to trim our expectations of phone...