Friday, January 29, 2016

WHAT I’VE BEEN DOING THIS WEEK

I’ve been in a pretty intense seminar/discussion group all this week. It’s called “Contemporary Issues in Pentecostal Missions.” 
Some of the topics we have discussed are:
  • Status of Women
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Poverty & Economic Uplift
  • Persecution
  • Church Planting
  • Business as Missions
  • Contextualization/Syncretism/Religious Pluralism
  • War, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
  • Migration
  • Short-Term Missions

The group of participants is made up people from Myanmar, the Philippines, the US, Samoa, Singapore, Bhutan, & Zimbabwe.
Here are the primary things we’ll each be taking home to our respective places of ministry:
The world is a mess.
Jesus is the only hope of the world.
God wants to use the church to make Jesus known to the world.
The Holy Spirit is available to empower & guide the church to make Jesus known in the world.

It’s been a great week.
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