It’s a pretty stupid term, isn’t it? Mercy ministry. What is a mercy ministry? Every day the Lord doesn’t return is a mercy to those
Tag: missiology
The trickle down effect apes prosperity gospel thinking
Dave Williams has written a helpful article on the ‘trickle down gospel’. He outlines the economic trickle down theory and points out that even its
Is God calling you to go home? I hope not
An interesting Gospel Coalition came into my blog reader asking, ‘Is God Calling You to Go Home?’ The article was clearly articulating a scenario in
What I was and wasn’t saying about mission agencies
Yesterday, I posted an article on the primacy of churches in the work of mission and emphasised the role of the local church in the
If the church is God’s plan A, is there a role for mission agencies?
Yesterday, I wrote about why our church has decided to focus our giving on church-based mission. That is, we are planning to support missionaries who
The church is God’s plan A so should be the focus of our missions giving
We recently had cause to reevaluate our mission partners. We had always taken the view that we would only support those individuals and/or organisations with
