Category: Missional Viewpoints

Missional Viewpoints 4: Mission as Transformation

In what ways is transformation a metaphor for mission, and how does this affect our understanding of mission and the way we approach it?

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Transformation is a key element of mission – and it’s also one of the big indicators that our missional work is having an effect.

But what if rather than looking at transformation as a result of mission, we looked at transformation as a metaphor for mission itself?

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Missional Viewpoints 3: Mission and Healing

How does the image of mission as healing affect the way we understand the mission of God?

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So, after a long sabbatical it’s time to resume our Missional Viewpoints series. I almost let this series go, but I still think it’s something worth continuing so it’s time to revisit it and press on further. Just to jog your memory, here’s what I wrote as the brief for this series last Summer:

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Missional Viewpoints 2: Mission as Salvation

Caught up in the Christian understanding of mission and particularly evangelism, is this concept of salvation and what it means. In recent times, the Church’s understanding of salvation has been fairly straightforward and in some ways quite a shallow image. Will a deeper image of salvation help to propel us towards a deeper understanding of the mission of God?

Salvation Mountain in Niland, CA (USA)

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Missional Viewpoints 1: Mission as Liberation

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How does the image of mission as liberation help us in understanding how God is at work in the world around us, and how we can get stuck in alongside him?

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“Missional Viewpoints” – A summer blog series

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Over July and August, on the blog I’ll be going through a series looking at our definition of mission, and particularly some specific keywords that inform our understanding.

With university work finally out of the way after the final push to get everything finished, and with The Lab beginning to quieten down for the summer, I thought it was about time to get back into blogging. So, in order to become more focused, and to get myself “back into shape” in terms of blogging, I thought it’d be good to work through a fairly simple, but quite interesting summer series.

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