Avoid Paternalism & Dependency Many, great, Western missiological thinkers have battled with the issue of paternalism in cross cultural contexts for decades. What exactly is paternalism? The essence of paternalism is providing outside direction and resources by some “mature” party to someone considered “immature” and not yet capable to carry full leadership responsibility. Though it [...]
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8 Keys to Housing Scheme Gospel Ministry (8)
Posted: February 28, 2012 by mezmcconnell in 8 Keys To Housing Scheme Gospel Ministry, Church Planting, Discipleship, Doctrine & Theology, Evangelism, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Niddrie Community Church, Random StuffTags: community development, Dependency, Gospel ministry, housing schemes, Missiology, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, Paternalism
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8 Keys to Housing Scheme Gospel Ministry (7)
Posted: February 27, 2012 by mezmcconnell in 8 Keys To Housing Scheme Gospel Ministry, Church Planting, Discipleship, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Niddrie Community ChurchTags: Discipleship Community Development, Gosel Ministry, housing schemes, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor
A Wholistic Approach to Christian Discipleship We would be foolish to think that the many problems of housing schemes could be solved by any one approach, or if we just managed to solve one particular problem. We see the foolishness of this thinking in Niddrie as we observe the many tens of millions spent on [...]
8 Keys to Housing Scheme Gospel Ministry (6) Church Based Community Development (b)
Posted: February 21, 2012 by mezmcconnell in 8 Keys To Housing Scheme Gospel Ministry, Church Planting, Discipleship, Doctrine & Theology, Evangelism, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Niddrie Community Church, Random Stuff, Recommended Resources, WebsitesTags: church planting, community development, Mark Dever, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, the gospel coalition
Mark Dever notes on The Gospel Coalition blog, that: Since the Fall, the trajectory of unredeemed human history—the City of Man—is always in the Bible to judgment (the Flood, Babel, Canaan, Egypt, Jerusalem, Babylon, Rome & then Rev. 19). (Not quite as universal as gravity, but seemingly as inevitable in its overall tendency.) For a [...]
8 Keys to Housing Scheme Gospel Ministry (4) – Developing Indigenous Leaders
Posted: February 13, 2012 by mezmcconnell in 8 Keys To Housing Scheme Gospel Ministry, Church Planting, Discipleship, Leadership/Ministry Training, Niddrie Community Church, Random Stuff, Recommended Resources, WebsitesTags: leadership development, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, Porterbrook
Leadership Development This is a key area of gospel ministry in housing schemes. Many local churches completely devolve their responsibility in this to Bible Colleges which I think is, sometimes, to the detriment of the church and the person being ‘trained’. Certainly, in housing schemes, we need to have a clearly defined, multi-faceted approach to [...]
The 8 Keys to Ministry In Housing Schemes (3)
Posted: February 6, 2012 by mezmcconnell in 8 Keys To Housing Scheme Gospel Ministry, Church Planting, Evangelism, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Niddrie Community ChurchTags: community development, community renewal, Gospel, Mez McConnell, mission, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, outreach, Robert Lupton
Part III: Developing Community Skills Robert Lupton would call this a ‘redistribution of resources’. His logic being (albeit from a community development perspective): 1. We live in the area we are trying to reach 2. We work toward a ministry of reconciliation at a Godward level and a community level Then (3) we are, hopefully, [...]
The 8 Keys to Gospel Ministry in Housing Schemes (2)
Posted: February 2, 2012 by mezmcconnell in 8 Keys To Housing Scheme Gospel Ministry, Church Planting, Discipleship, Evangelism, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Niddrie Community ChurchTags: community development, Gospel, housing schemes, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, Reconciliation
Part II: The Ministry of Reconciliation All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are [...]
The 8 Keys To Gospel Ministry In Housing Schemes (1)
Posted: January 31, 2012 by mezmcconnell in 8 Keys To Housing Scheme Gospel Ministry, Church Planting, Evangelism, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Niddrie Community ChurchTags: Gospel Living, Gospel ministry, housing schemes, Incarnational living, Mez McConnell, missional living, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, Robert Lupton
PART I: Live In If we really want to make an impact for Christ in the many housing schemes up and down our nations then we must be prepared to move into the area. This is the GOLDEN rule. There are no exceptions for our leaders. Ministry will fail dismally, particularly if the leader(s) is(are) [...]
