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what's your front line of mission?
Posted by Tim Chester
Mark Greene, writing in the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity magazine EG, tells the story of a church who started talking about everyone’s ‘frontline’. ‘Everyone had a frontline – a place, a context where they felt that God was calling them to minister, so everyone could be involved.’
The church leader, Paul Pease, says:
'A saying we frequently use here at Hook is ’surviving and thriving on the frontline (and the frontline is where we are most of the time).’ We are still totally convinced that the action is on our frontline, and we retreat twice a week behind the frontline for fellowship so as to encourage one another to get back out to the frontline once again to win people for Christ. I am really passionate about this and am convinced this is the purpose of the church and the best way to reach people with the glorious gospel.
Mark Greene comments: “The team here at LICC now uses the word ‘frontline’ in all our teaching on mission. It’s a term that honours every context and binds people together in shared endeavour, even if that endeavour is pursued in different places.”
[Editor's Note: And of course, the title of this blog is 'Radstock Reports From The Frontline,' for exactly the same reason. True, we've been reporting recently from India, Zambia, Mongolia, Russia and Kosovo, but we've also reported from Southampton and London, UK. And look out for an upcoming update on a church plant in the Radstock network in Derby. The front line, as the article makes clear, is whatever God has called us do in the world, wherever he has called be in the world.]
For the full article in this issue of EG, click here.
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