Lessons of Partnership
Some suggestions from my experience to help your mission partnerships take shape and function effectively.
Some suggestions from my experience to help your mission partnerships take shape and function effectively.
1. Effective partnerships are built on trust, openness, and mutual concern. Partnerships are more than coordination, planning, strategies, and tactics. The heart of the Gospel is restored in relationships.
Appreciation for the Western saga is one of several inconsequential things I remember most fondly about my father, along with a love for fishing and a passion for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
I see our missions enterprise moving inexorably toward what I call the scorecard mentality.
In a relational culture, not surprisingly, relationships are primary.
Except possibly for not writing home often enough, nothing adds more guilt than failure to evangelize.
While teaching a course on the Minor Prophets at a Bible school in Tanzania, I discovered a decided difference in my students’ understanding of truth. The discovery began when I assigned each student one book to research and then teach to the class.
It is time to bring the same compelling message of hope to an outwardly prosperous, yet increasingly pessimistic, continent.
Jesus saw trials awaiting human society as a combination of political, cultural, environmental, and religious elements. That’s what we witnessed in Rwanda.
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