Those who feel insecure always love to be in a position of leadership and power. To have power is to have control. Many pastors in leadership roles are those who are insecure. Whether they move on due to their accomphlishments or lack of, the next area of control and power to sought for is, most of the time, sexual.
When advocating the gospel in a multi-religious world, we must argue for the supremacy of Christ, which hinges on the fact that Jesus is God.
And this is why the Ascension of Christ is of utmost importance in our time, just as it was in Paul’s (think Phil 2).
I will be at Tyndale attending Ajith Fernando’s course Communicating the Gospel in a Multi-Religious World until the end of the week.
Blogging will be sparse. But if something interesting come up, I will post them here.
While searching for some of the texts required for the course I am going to attend next week, I came across this:
The WSCF-AP Book Series Publication Project started in 1976 in order to provide students and youth with wholistic understanding of society and church in the Asia Pacific region as well as the world.
The Book Series is a theological attempt to articulate ecumenical vision and mission in the context of Asia-Pacific society where poverty, hunger, oppression, injustice and human rights violation prevail. The Book Series addresses the critical issues of the Asia Pacific context.
It includes the peasantry and their social revolution; theology of the People’s Struggle (Philippines); Minjung Theology (Korea); women’s struggle; interfaith dialogue; peace and conflict transformation; education and liberation; as well as ecumenism.
Some of the titles there are from WCC written in the 80’s. Most authors came from Christian traditions outside of Evangelicalism. Nonetheless, it should be a good source of Christian materials written by and for those living in the Asia-Pacific.
From yorkregion.com:
Tony Wong, Markham’s regional councillor, died yesterday, York Region chairperson and CEO Bill Fisch announced this morning.
Mr. Wong had been battling an undisclosed illness.
Read here.
With Wong’s departure, will there be another Chinese regional councillor in Markham?
You become like what you worship. You reflect the one you worship.
Those who keep on blogging
Those who help me understand what He said
What we think He is saying
What the world is saying
What the world is expressing
We depend so much on technology, yet we hardly care to know anything about it.
Great minds I finished (or gave up) wrestling with
Great minds that demand me to wrestle with
Where they are
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