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Evangelism
10 Tips For Planning A Mission Week
Glen Scrivener
Today I’ve been in contact with three different groups, planning our times of mission next year. As we think together about reaching their contexts here are some key truths to bear in mind… This is not your mission. This serves your mission.‘A mission week’ should be part of a church’s ongoing life of mission. The one-off sports event with gospel talk at half time is one thing. Having a bunch of Christians join a local sports team season by season – befriending and…
10 Tips For Planning A Mission Week
Glen Scrivener
Today I’ve been in contact with three different groups, planning our times of mission next year. As we think together about reaching their contexts here are some key truths to…
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Four Thoughts on Evangelistic Events
Glen Scrivener
In last week’s post – 10 Tips For Planning a Mission Week – I raised a banner for the benefits of concentrated times of outreach. On Facebook someone asked some thoughtful…
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What is the turning point?
Glen Scrivener
Where’s the turning point in the parable of the two sons? Is it the moment when the young rebel ‘comes to himself’ in the pig-sty? That’s certainly the way the…
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6 Reasons Christ Must Be The Centre
Glen Scrivener
Last week we thought about where we centre our evangelistic preaching. Too often we focus on the pig-sty (to use the example of Luke 15). We basically call rebellious youths…
Read onFour Thoughts on Evangelistic Events
Glen Scrivener
In last week’s post – 10 Tips For Planning a Mission Week – I raised a banner for the benefits of concentrated times of outreach. On Facebook someone asked some thoughtful questions about the usefulness of such weeks and whether they might detract from the ongoing mission of the church. Here are four additional thoughts as you think through the relationship between the intensive and the everyday. 1. Events Communicate the Nature of the Gospel I believe in events. Because the…
20 Things An Evangelist Should Believe
Glen Scrivener
1. God is mission. As Father, Son and Holy Spirit our God is Sender, Sent and Proceeding. His being is irreducibly bound up in sending – in mission. He is the out-ward…
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Easter’s A Comedy For Crying Out Loud!
Glen Scrivener
The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it… yields but one ending: death. ― Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces The…
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