News...and more from Andrew Walls
Well, we've finally found out which specific courses we'll be teaching at CBTS. I'll try to post the titles in the next couple of days. Pray that we'll have some good, productive prep time in the six weeks or so we have left before we leave. (Still can't believe how soon it will be!)
Also, pray for (what seems like) thousands of details that have to be taken care of by then. We just got an email today from the Baptist General Conference detailing all the stuff for visas, health insurance, travel plans, etc., that we need to iron out. Our contact with the BGC is hoping to have all our visa apps and insurance forms turned in by the first week of July. So pray for that too, when you think of us.
I'll leave you with another provocative quote from Andrew Walls, the missiologist I've been enjoying so much recently. I'm still really excited by his thoughts on how the African church so closely resembles second-century Christianity. Here are his words:
"Our knowledge of the early church prior to the Council of Nicaea in 325 is fragmentary, but the fragments reveal many of the concerns African churches have today, from distinguishing between true and false prophets to deciding what should happen to church members who behave badly. Even the literary forms are often similar.... Reading the pre-Nicene literature and the literature of the European conversion period in the light of modern African experience cast floods of light. African and Asian Christians can vastly illuminate 'our' church history." (quoted in Jenkins, The Next Christendom, 135)
Pretty cool, huh?
More soon.
-Wes, for the guys
Also, pray for (what seems like) thousands of details that have to be taken care of by then. We just got an email today from the Baptist General Conference detailing all the stuff for visas, health insurance, travel plans, etc., that we need to iron out. Our contact with the BGC is hoping to have all our visa apps and insurance forms turned in by the first week of July. So pray for that too, when you think of us.
I'll leave you with another provocative quote from Andrew Walls, the missiologist I've been enjoying so much recently. I'm still really excited by his thoughts on how the African church so closely resembles second-century Christianity. Here are his words:
"Our knowledge of the early church prior to the Council of Nicaea in 325 is fragmentary, but the fragments reveal many of the concerns African churches have today, from distinguishing between true and false prophets to deciding what should happen to church members who behave badly. Even the literary forms are often similar.... Reading the pre-Nicene literature and the literature of the European conversion period in the light of modern African experience cast floods of light. African and Asian Christians can vastly illuminate 'our' church history." (quoted in Jenkins, The Next Christendom, 135)
Pretty cool, huh?
More soon.
-Wes, for the guys
posted by Charlie, Tommy, and Wesley | 3:15 PM
1 Comments:
An interesting comparison . . . It is exciting to think what might happen if the Africa that now resembles second century Christianity continues to follow the course of these early believers!
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