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Monday, June 1, 2009

The PsALMist - Thought for the Day!

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TRUST YOU ARE ALL WELL!

Since receiving a copy of the latest edition of the PERSPECTIVES at the Global Network of World Centers of Missions Consultation in Singapore in April 09, I have embarked on this massive reading project . . . to finish the entire reader, doing it a chapter from each section a day, whenever possible i.e. 4 chapters in a sitting.

This morning, whilst I was waiting @ the Perodua Service Center for the car to be ready, I took the opportunity to continue reading PERSPECTIVES ON THE WORLD CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT.

What a fantastic book this is . . . a collection of the finest articles on missions, arranged in four sections that took a lot at missions from the Biblical Perspective, the Historical Perspective, the Cultural Perspective and the Strategic Perspective.

Allow me to challenge you with some thoughts from one chapter within the Strategic Perspective . . . “The Challenge of the Cities” by Roger S. Greenway. Let me quote sections from his writing:

Traditionally, most mission work was done in rural areas. In the past that made sense because most people lived in rural communities. But the greatest challenge is now in cities, and there we find a shortage of worker . . . Unreached villages certainly need to hear the gospel. But in the view of the masses of unsaved and unchurched people in cities, more attention must be given to urban centers.”

Just a thought-provoking idea.

What if the Christians in Penang were see beyond their noses, lift up their eyes and behold the masses of immigrant workers in our city here to work and to send money home to their families often residing in closed-access nations? This could lead to a church planting movement in that nation! From the city back to the village!

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