The Pharisees were characterized by missional zeal. Unfortunately, it was missional zeal for Pharisaism, but you can't have everything. "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold … [Read more...]

Inside each capable administrator, there is a petty bureaucrat, yearning to get out. Inside each visionary, there is a wild antinomian, yearning to get out. Each one is suspicious of the inner other guy, when they ought to be suspicious of their own inner guy. Mission cannot be … [Read more...]

"Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath" (Ps. 62:9, ESV). The work of missions must be built on something more substantial than the need. The need, as Oswald Chambers put it … [Read more...]

Let us start with an obvious principle, and then go on to show that it is a biblical principle. Sometimes earthy observations are dismissed by Christians as having a carnal wisdom to them but, it is supposed, they somehow are not representative of the "way of the Spirit." The … [Read more...]