Using Means
What could mission look like in the mobile digital world if we were to ride the coattails of commerce as missions has done since Paul and the Roman roads? We need to better engage with new technologies for God’s glory.
Read MorePosted by Jay Matenga | Jan 7, 2017 | All Posts, Mission, Strategy |
What could mission look like in the mobile digital world if we were to ride the coattails of commerce as missions has done since Paul and the Roman roads? We need to better engage with new technologies for God’s glory.
Read MorePosted by Jay Matenga | Dec 7, 2016 | All Posts, Mission, Relationships, Strategy |
Mission is not a task to be accomplished, it is a relationship journey, and the minute we reduce it to a quantifiable goal we objectify the very ones God wants to embrace. We need a blessing-orientation, to make loving relationship our priority.
Read MorePosted by Jay Matenga | Nov 7, 2016 | All Posts, Interculturality, Mission, Relationships, Strategy |
We need to be people of empathy, a form of identification where we enter into and share the burdens of another. Without it our mission activity is nothing more than condescension, and our Christian life becomes pitifully parochial.
Read MorePosted by Jay Matenga | Oct 7, 2016 | All Posts, Interculturality, Member Care, Mission, Relationships |
We make too little of reciprocation in missions strategies. We arrogantly think that we engage in mission to only give, out of our superior surplus. We need a big dose of humility, acknowledging our need and being open to receive.
Read MorePosted by Jay Matenga | Sep 7, 2016 | All Posts, Mission, Mobilisation, Navigation |
Courage has many resting places and the call of mission comes to us with new views if we stop long enough to see them. We would do well to foster a posture of exploration in mission, being open to new possibilities, daring to move into them.
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