Posts Tagged ‘Mission’

Provoking a response

Posted: April 19, 2008 by Pilgrim Soldier in Mission, discipleship
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When we think about being provocative I would guess that a lot of people would see this as a negative thing. I suppose this is mainly because provocation is one of those words that seems to be a bad thing. We think of people being provoked into an argument or of someone hitting someone else [...]

Mission focussed

Posted: March 8, 2008 by Pilgrim Soldier in Mission, Reading
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Slowly but surely I’m working my way through Restoring the Woven Cord which is about various aspects of Celtic Christianity and how they are relevant to today’s world. Interestingly, I’m noticing that I don’t agree quite so readily with some of the ideas that the author puts forward as I did when I read this [...]

Infectious holiness

Posted: February 27, 2008 by Pilgrim Soldier in My Pilgrimage
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In the January/February 2008 issue of the Officer publication, which I seem to get despite not being a commissioned officer, the editorial issued a challenge for officers to write articles about: …how to be holy when we get out of the house and ‘test our style and morality in the mire of the times’ I [...]

Being local

Posted: February 1, 2008 by Pilgrim Soldier in My Pilgrimage
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Challenging questions seem to be taking centre stage in my thinking these days. One such question, well really a scenario with a question attached, was posed to me about a week ago and it went something like this: The Salvation Army in the UK has well over 700 centres in the UK that it needs [...]