“O come, O come, Emmanuel, and ran­som cap­tive Israel, that mourns in lonely exile here, until the Son of God appears. Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel”. (O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, 12^th

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Lead­er­ship is a com­plex and multi-​​​​dimensional phe­nom­e­non. While the mis­sional par­a­digm is not leader-centric—rather, “every dis­ci­ple is to be an agent of the King­dom of God” (Hirsch, “Defin­ing Missional”)—leadership is nev­er­the­less indis­pens­able to liv­ing out the call­ing of the church. … Read the full article

Intro­duc­tion

For many years the evan­gel­i­cal church in Canada has seen itself as pas­sion­ate about mis­sion. We have sent large sums of money over­seas to sup­port inter­na­tional mis­sions while at home the local church sel­dom moved out­side of its own … Read the full article

Hos­pi­tal­ity is a cru­cial Chris­t­ian prac­tice with a long bib­li­cal his­tory, start­ing in the Old Tes­ta­ment where Abra­ham is pic­tured as the ideal host (Gen 18:1–8) and cul­mi­nat­ing in the New Tes­ta­ment exhor­ta­tions to prac­tice hos­pi­tal­ity found in Romans 12:13 … Read the full article

In the Gospel of John, Jesus says that he had come to “fin­ish the work” the Father had sent him to do. He prays that his dis­ci­ples all “may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I … Read the full article