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Culture 2: Responding Creatively to Culture

Apply as a Study Group In the previous Foundation course on Listening Critically to Culture we laid the groundwork for thinking about culture from a Christian perspective: a method for understanding and responding to popular cultural works. We opened a way for talking with non-Christian friends and neighbours about how they understand the world, what … Read more …

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Culture 1: Listening Critically to Culture

Apply as a Study Group Christians want to change things. We want to see God’s shalom, his peace and healing, flow in our world. That means engaging culture, including popular culture. How to do that is not an easy question. How do we construct a perspective that engages with the world without becoming conformed to … Read more …

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Bible Overview

Apply as a Study Group The reason the church and mission go together is because of the way the bible story is told. This course will walk you through the bible story and show you how the story of the Gospel was always meant to form communities of light who take that message to the … Read more …

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Intercultural Church

Apply as a Study Group The story of the Bible and the church, indeed the whole world, ends with a multicultural multitude united in the worship of Jesus. A hundred years ago this was something completely outside the experience of most Christians. Today it is possible for people from different cultures to come together on … Read more …

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Evangelism

Apply as a Study Group Evangelism is an amazing privilege because it means we get to share in the happiness of God. Perhaps God could have found some other way to apply the salvation of Jesus to people’s lives. But he chose a way – the evangelism of his people – that means we get … Read more …

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Ministry Philosophy

Apply as a Study Group Explore what a gospel-centred, missionally-focused philosophy of local church ministry looks like in your context, and identify what the priorities or next steps are for you at this point in time. You probably already have a ‘philosophy of ministry’, even if you’ve never heard the term before. You have a … Read more …