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Well, in the last e-letter that I sent out a few days ago, I began getting back to some of the links that I love to point out to you to help you keep current on some of the wonderful ideas, resources and reports that continue to come out about house church movements around the world. I would like to continue that theme, and add more links for you to enjoy this week.
First, please continue to pray for Felicity and I as we are traveling right now, and have the privilege of working with house church movements in the Philippines this week, and then in Australia the following ten days from August 20-30th. Details of the Australia portion of the trip are available at this link from the Oikos site.
Here is a fantastic resource for those of you who take world mission seriously (which I hope is all of us in the light of Jesus heart for the whole world as read in John 3:16 and Matthew 28:18-20.) The International Bulletin of Missionary Research (IBMR) have also made its archives and current issues for free download. These can be seen and downloaded at http://www.internationalbulletin.org/.
Are you aware of the level of persecution that is going on against Afghan Christians right now? For more information on this, and to find ways to get involved, go to this link. What about Israel? See this article by Jaeson Ma on why we should pray for Israel.
None of us can involve in everything. But all of us can involve in something! Prayerfully consider how to be available to the Lord in some of the ways hinted at in this newsletter. Don’t let information overload mean that you do nothing.
This may be shorter than normal, but with us abroad, and a clear focus on Missions, this is more than enough for this week.
Blessings,
Tony and Felicity and the H2H team.
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Recent Stories:
Each week H2H publishes a story/article about simple church and/or living out our life in the Kingdom. Recent stories include:
- Why link house churches into networks? by Rad Zdero
- Universalism, Piano Wire and Bamboo Spikes by Maurice Smith
- GOD AT WORK IN NEPAL by Robin Corner
- It’s about the community by Paul H. Byerly
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Jesus Manifesto: Restoring the Supremacy and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ JUST ADDED!
By Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola
Christians have made the gospel about so many things—things other than Christ. Religious concepts, ideas, doctrines, strategies, methods, techniques, programs, and formulas have all eclipsed the beauty, the glory, and the reality of the Lord Jesus Himself. On the whole, the Christian family today is starved for a real experience of the living Christ. We know a lot about our Lord, but we don’t know Him very well. We know a lot about trying to be like Jesus, but very little about living by His indwelling life. “Jesus Manifesto” presents a fresh unveiling of Jesus as not only Savior and Lord, but as so much more. It is a prophetic call to restore the supremacy and sovereignty of Christ in a world—and a church—that has lost sight of Him. Read this book and see your Lord like you’ve never seen Him before.
What’s With Paul & Women? JUST ADDED!
By Jon Zens
1 Timothy 2:11-12 has been used as a “clear” mandate to silence women in the church for over 1500 years. In What’s With Paul & Women? Jon Zens exposes the fallacies of this interpretation, and opens up the meaning of 1 Timothy 2:9-15 using insights gleaned from the Artemis-saturated Ephesian culture where Timothy was left to stand against false teaching (1:3). Going beyond 1 Timothy 2, this book covers the major issues in gender inequality with three Appendices: one on the Ephesian social world in which 1 Timothy was written, another on 1 Corinthians 14:34-36 and an extensive review of John Piper’s What’s the Difference? Manhood & Womanhood Defined According to the Bible. If 1 Timothy 2:11-12 and 1 Corinthians 14:34-36 have puzzled you, What’s With Paul & Women? will help in your quest to discern the mind of the Lord as the gender debate continues.
All Dogs Go To Heaven Don’t They? Just out – order now, shipped this month!
by Maurice Smith
In All Dogs Go to Heaven . . . Don’t They? Maurice Smith uses his extensive years of scholarship to tackle a complicated and difficult subject that affects all of us — what happens to people after death. He writes with humor and clarity to make the Biblical position very plain and to refute the theory that everyone will eventually end up in heaven — however attractive a concept that might be. I recommend this book to anyone who is serious about holding a Biblical position on the subject.” – Felicity Dale, author An Army of Ordinary People and co-author The Rabbit and The Elephant.
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