We call ourselves the “body of Christ.” But he used his body to touch lepers who should have made him unclean, be touched by prostituted women, knowing the scandal it provoked…
Category: Mission
From the Dnepr’s Banks, to Wreck Island Creek. Dreams for the land live on.
While friendships and burdens remain, dreams do sometimes die. Yet they’re sometimes reborn. Entire chapters of life seem to end in a sudden aposiopesis… only to be reconfigured in a new place with new characters.
Redeeming the Time – Gentleness, relationship, and time | Becoming a Friend of Time 2
The fabric of transformation is woven from threads of human relationships… which require, as much as anything, time.
Redemption and Disturbing Mission | Thinking about Justice, Part 3
Worshipping God while remaining complicit in a system that, by its very nature, devalues God’s image bearers, makes him into a ‘tribal deity.’
Roma, Chinese, Mission and Me – Part 6 – Big Power
Reflecting on both the content and the significance of the recent Roma to the Nations consultation is like a kaleidoscope: there are more and more angles and pieces that come together and, as we turn to get a better view more beautiful patterns come into view. Just as we need to be clear that the…
Roma, Chinese, Mission and Me – Part 5 – Stereotypes and Stories
God is moving among Roma, at the periphery of Europe, while churches at the “center” wither. It’s great opportunity to relearn mission.
Roma, Chinese, Mission and Me – Part Four – Changing hearts changes vision
A major goal of the Roma to the Nations consultation was to inspire and motivate leaders in the global Chinese church to reach out to the Roma. This shaped the dialogue in a unique way. During the consultation, Chinese pastors offered meditations on Scripture, which shine a light on the deeper thinking that is emerging…
The Roma, the Chinese, Mission and Me – Part Three – Owning and paying our OWN “gospel debt”
In the last post in this series, we were thinking about the deep feeling expressed by several Chinese believers that they “owed a gospel debt” to the Roma of Europe. Letting that concept percolate, we can think of at least two reasons why we who are Christians of European extraction, who have been involved in…
Mill Pond Porch 