We started a discussion here about how we talk about the professions and ‘full time vocational ministry’. It seems that a great deal of the motivation behind the push for people to go into full time vocational ministry is that we are living in the last days. This is the […]
“Being a doctor is just delaying people’s deaths.” Have you heard this line before? It’s an argument used to encourage people into full-time vocational ministry. The idea is that medicine isn’t worth doing because everyone eventually dies and ministry is more valuable because it lasts into eternity. That sounds like […]
Last Friday I wrote on Facebook I couldn’t be in the main sessions or seminars so most of my NTE experience revolved around the strand group Arthur and I were leading. It was Strand 2, which means our people had been to NTE once before (and obviously come back for […]
Africa for Norway is a great little piece of satire.
We got officially ‘commissioned’ last night. We made some promises about going to Tanzania and God’s people laid hands on us and prayed for us. Here are some of the highlights:
Arthur and I went to a seminar on marriage with our Sudanese friends once. We were all ready to have a discussion about Ephesians 5 or 1 Peter 3 but our friends saw nothing controversial there. They wanted to talk about dowries. Living in Australia, the traditional dowry of cows […]
There’s no doubt about the importance of maps for the missionary meeting, according to Amos R Wells. In his opinion ‘missionary meetings without maps… do not leave any definite impression.’ But don’t go thinking that you’ll just buy one: ‘Boughten maps are luxuries. The home-made maps are the best because […]
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