Knowing Christ
Over the past few months, we have immersed ourselves in the Mission Handbook, a document that stands at the heart of our missionary community. The Handbook tells us who we are, what we do, where we do it, and why. … (read more)
Charles Lindquist
A Lutheran Community
At the heart of the World Mission Prayer League you will find our Mission Handbook. The document describes who we are, what we do, where we do it, and why. We introduced the Handbook last month, and will continue again … (read more)
Introducing the Mission Handbook
For many, many decades, a Handbook has circulated at the center of our missionary community. The document describes who we are, what we do, where we do it, and why. It is the accumulated testimony of our shared allegiances, core … (read more)
Nothingness and Nobodies
I relish Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians – the most personal and poignant of Paul’s wonderful epistles, it seems to me. I relish chapter one. All the promises of God, Paul reports ecstatically, find their “Yes!” in Jesus (v.20). … (read more)
A Week of Prayer for Unity
For more than a century, the Christian church around the world has dedicated a week in January to prayer for Christian unity. I have often participated myself. This year the effort seems especially relevant. Our own nation is as fractured … (read more)
Incarnation
The Incarnation is so very many things. There are so many other things, of course, that it is not. The Incarnation, in particular, is about God become a human being – and not the other way around. The Incarnation is … (read more)
One in One Hundred
Here is yet another way we get our callings wrong. We think them rare, or heroic, or extraordinary. We think them exceptional, somehow unique, almost beyond belief. Like winning the lottery, maybe. Or coming down with an unusual, life-changing disease. … (read more)
Darjeeling Hills Bible School: Sixty Years in Ministry!
Darjeeling Hills Bible School & Seminary develops Christian Leaders in the Nepali speaking world. This past February marked 60 years of ministry. In this year of their Diamond Jubilee, the General Board gives thanks to God for His faithfulness and … (read more)
Getting Our Callings Right (Again) …
There are so many ways to get missionary callings wrong. One of the most common, as I mentioned last month, is to suppose that we are called to go somewhere and to do some thing, first of all. Well, no, … (read more)
Getting Our Callings Right …
A few weeks ago we completed our annual Missionary Candidates’ Briefing Course. Fifteen candidates and missionary inquirers from here and there around the country (and a few from elsewhere in the world) gathered at our offices on Clifton Avenue. We … (read more)