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Missio Dei is a new kind of journal, geared for the whole spectrum of Christian leaders in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond. Each month you will find articles here by faculty and friends of Tyndale Seminary. The authors will explore how insights from their diverse fields of expertise can help you to reflect on the real work of engaging our communities with the Gospel.

… the articles in Missio Dei will aim to be integrative. Too often our thinking and our work is chopped up and amputated by artificial separations and polarities. Scholarship is pitted against practical action. Evangelism is pitted against social justice. The Seminary is pitted against the Church. Faith is pitted against careful thinking. The authors writing in Missio Dei will approach their varied topics with the common conviction that God’s work must embrace both ends of these oppositions.

And to whet your appetite, may I suggest Dr. Ian Scott’s article on what it means to join God’s mission with a Southern Ontario focus in Paul and God’s Multicultural Mission.

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In Acts, the miracle workers were also the greatest apologists. Yet today, if you want to see miracles you will go to one place, and if you want to meet an apologist, you will likely need to go to another!

Liberals glorify their doubt, and [so] we (Evangelicals) glorify our faith. Eventually, we begin to think that we know everything. Everything we say, we say it as if we have the utmost authority and certainty. Yet there are things that Jesus allows us to explore, to fight over.

One of the major issues that hindered me back in 2007 when considering the possibility of doing church -planting under AMiA was the question of unity and solidarity. While seeing a lot of faithful Christians leaving the ACC and the ECUSA, I see many were forming their own group, doing their own thing. I felt there was a lack of unifying spirit for those who left for more or less the same reason but at various times.

I asked Archbishop Yong and Bishop TJ about this, and sure enough, they told me about Common Cause and assured me that this stage was only temporary. So I am very excited and glad and grateful to God that the Anglican Church in North America has now become as reality, with it inauguration at Christ Church Plano, Texas on June 24, 2009.

The procession of clergy and bishops for the installation of ACNA:

Other video links, including (Arch)bishop Duncan’s address at the Inaugural Assembly (2nd in list):

At a time when Christian-hopping and church-splitting are so common, isn’t it wonderful to witness a moment in church history when followers of Christ are join together for a single purpose of mission?

Thanks Anson for linking to the video. See his post for more related links and news.

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.