Work is worship

Here is a great video – http://www.rightnowconferences.org/work/ 

Contrasting Kingdom Leaders and Church Leaders

 There is presently a revolution taking place among those on the leading edge of change in the Evangelical Church. The result is a transition from a church mindset to a kingdom mindset in which the walls of church buildings are no longer able to contain the raw creative energy of Christ-followers who are committed to [...]

Only God Transforms; Only God Deserves the Glory

“Transformation” is a current hot topic in the church and in missiological circles. In general Christian usage, the concept reflects a movement from darkness to light – from individual and societal brokenness caused by sin toward the healing of that brokenness. This healing expresses itself in the relative presence of God’s Shalom – relative to [...]

The Ideas we inherit – and the things we are passing on

Stalin famously said ‘ideas are more powerful than guns’.  Ideas change our thinking and as our thinking changes, so does our behavior and our actions. Recently I have been looking back at times in history when business and mission have been connected. Although the term ‘business as mission’ is a fairly new one, there have [...]

From church planting success to genocide

In just 100 years, this country went from ‘unreached’ to ‘churched’, with approximately 90 percent of the population attending church as members.  It is the ultimate success story in the history of Christian mission – if the success criteria are church planting and church growth. In just over 100 days, nearly one million citizens (and [...]

Lose the faith – lose the culture

I was in a reception line for a charity in Sydney a little while ago and people were filing past and politely saying ‘hello’ to the heads of the charity and then to my wife and then to me, and a very charming and gracious elder lady from a prosperous area of Sydney, immaculately dressed [...]

Dont say ‘The Bible says So’

I want to say from the outset that I believe in biblical inerrancy, the sufficiency of scripture, and the doctrine the Reformers called Sola Scriptura. I need to tell you that up front, because you might otherwise get very upset at what I’m about to say. While we have to be immersed in scripture and [...]

Mathematics and Spirituality

In the holy city of Gangapur, two preachers were most renowned:  Gyananand enthralled his audience by explaining that the European numerals (I, II, III, IV, V, etc) could not have produced Western science, technology, banking, or economic development. They were inherently incapable of calculating mathematical units such as percentages or economic units such as compound interest. [...]

Strategic Leadership

Leaders at any level, in any field or endeavour, universally recognise the importance of vision. In fact, so much is said and written about vision today that it is in danger of becoming nothing more than a buzz-word. In some quarters, vision has become an industry in its own right; entire bookstores tell us how [...]

Is cultural engagement biblical?

We’ve all seen the misguided claims of some nationalist groups that one particular nation or other in the world today is “God’s country,” or the dubious claim that one specific political system such as democracy, or a specific economic system such as socialism or capitalism, is God’s universal pattern for humankind. Throughout history, and the [...]

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