Jul 15, 2020 | Hope, Practices
I’ve already written in Tract Evangelism I about little, lurid, hellfire-and-brimstone tracts, so hot they warmed the hip pockets of the worn Levi’s that carried them. But they weren’t the only tracts we used. There were the teaching tracts. The Roman Road. Lay...
Jul 10, 2020 | Hope, Practices
I was a kid in the Seventies. The Seventies followed the Sixties- said captain obvious- and suddenly there was a revival of Christian fervor among young people. Young white people who had been inspired by civil rights and antiwar action, then disillusioned at the pace...
Jul 1, 2020 | Mission, Practices
Black Lives Matter. I’m white, and I’m talking mostly to white people. We white people have the most work to do. In The Way of Mission, we follow Jesus’ admonition to take up our crosses and follow. It’s a way of sacrifice. Lose your life to save it. Let me tell you a...
Jun 25, 2020 | Choice, Practices
In my early twenties, I was steeped in God life. I was in seminary, ministry school. Reading the Bible intensively, and reading about the Bible intensively. Studying ministry and mission for best practices for the present and the future. Talking constantly with other...
Jun 20, 2020 | Grace, Practices
Jesus’ parable of the Loving Father (better known as the parable of the Prodigal Son) is a foundation of The Way of Mission. The foundational principle is grace, expressed in family terms. The Loving Father wants- desperately, deeply wants- the Prodigal Son to come...
