The GCM Collective has identified some of our key distinctives and are working an explanatory paragrpah for each one. Here's the second ... 2. Community is both the hermeneutic and apologetic of the gospel Because the Christian community is created by the gospel it is the place where the...
The GCM Collective has identified some of our key distinctives and are working an explanatory paragrpah for each one. Here's the first ... 1. The gospel is the answer to every question The gospel is not simply the means by which we are converted. It is the good news of redemption through Jesus...
I love idealists. The gospel calls us to be holy, gospel-centred, loving, missional people and to be holy, gospel-centred, loving, missional communities. Given the choice, I’ll always take an idealist over a pragmatist. And the missional world is full of them. But ideals can be...
A review of Mike Breen and Alex Absalom, Launching Missional Communities: A Field Guide, 3DM, 2010. Launching Missional Communities by Mike Breen and Alex Absalom of 3 Dimension Ministries is a book on both how to transition to missional communities and how to run a missional community. In...
In coming posts we're going to be looking at some of the GCM dinsticitives. The first is this: "The gospel is the answer to every question". The story is told of a Sunday School teacher who asked her class, ‘What’s the animal with a long, bushy tail that lives in trees?’ One...
Ultimately in Lord of the Rings the power of evil is not destroyed by any army. It is not destroyed by military power or human strength. ‘All our hopes,’ says Gandalf at one point, ‘lie with two little hobbits somewhere in the wilderness’. Frodo and Sam enter Mordor...
Here is the fourth part of my course preparing people for cross-cultural mission. What do you think you will miss most? friends and family home comforts familiarity (e.g. favourite foods) entertainment a professional environment Christian community corporate worship and...
Here is the third part of my course preparing people for cross-cultural mission. (Here are parts one and two.) God is great What are the worries you have about doing mission in another culture? The refrain we kept repeating when I visited missionaries in the Middle-East was: ‘fallen...
We live in a time when nothing is worth living for and certainly nothing is worth dying for. Everything is relative. There are no absolutes, no great truths, no heroic causes. Part of the appeal of Lord of the Rings is that it contains a sense of moral purpose. It is a world of valour...
Here is the second part of my course preparing people for cross-cultural mission. God is glorious You are going to be very conscious of what other people think about you. Your fellow team members Do they think you are competent? What are they making of your progress? How do they...