Mission Matters is a series of articles in which John Brand, gets to grips with some of the practical and doctrinal issues facing missions today such as: holistic mission, contextualisation, dependency, local church and mission agency and the missionary call.
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(April, 1999) In the first article, John Brand asks a heartfelt question: Why is world mission so far down the agenda of the average evangelical church and Christian in the UK? He suggest three answers. |
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In this article, John Brand looks at another fundamental issue facing modern mission - that of balancing a dual responsibility to God and mankind: declaring the gospel while giving due attention to humanitarian need. (July, 1999) |
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In this article, John Brand takes up a 'Mission Matter' that he touched on in a previous article. It is the issue of the fate of those who die without having heard the gospel — the unreached. (October, 1999) |
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John Brand takes up a 'Mission Matter' that he touched on in a previous article. It is the issue of the fate of those who die without having heard the gospel — the unreached. (Spring, 2001) |
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John challenges us to respond to the ‘Commission Commands’. In order to do this we need to change the way we look at the world and see it as God sees it. (Summer, 2001) |
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In the second of three articles looking at the ‘Commission Commands’, Aim’s European Director, John Brand, considers the place of prayer. (Spring, 2002) |
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The previous two ‘Commission Commandments’ — to look and to pray — should lead naturally on to the third — to go. We must all ask the question, ‘Lord, what would you have me to do — and where?’. (Summer, 2002) |
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In this article John tackles one of what he calls the "missiological myths". The first myth he looks at is: "The rest of the world needs us (the western church) in order to know God". |
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In this article John tackles the second of what he calls the "missiological myths": We, the Church, do mission because of ‘The Great Commission’. |
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