Comments on: India, Days 13,14 http://www.leakespeak.com/2008/05/07/india-days-1314/ ...a missions megaphone Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:48:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: So is GFM moving to India? | LeakeSpeak http://www.leakespeak.com/2008/05/07/india-days-1314/#comment-172 So is GFM moving to India? | LeakeSpeak Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:29:30 +0000 http://www.leakespeak.com/2008/05/07/india-days-1314/#comment-172 [...] the prospect of beginning work there. I don’t suppose this still counts as shortly after As Rob Thiessen said after the trip, we met with 19 different church planters, including several Indian nationals as [...] […] the prospect of beginning work there. I don’t suppose this still counts as shortly after As Rob Thiessen said after the trip, we met with 19 different church planters, including several Indian nationals as […]

]]> By: rvthiessen http://www.leakespeak.com/2008/05/07/india-days-1314/#comment-163 rvthiessen Thu, 08 May 2008 18:25:01 +0000 http://www.leakespeak.com/2008/05/07/india-days-1314/#comment-163 Well, after 24 days, I got back too, to Mexico. I was privileged to travel with Grant and Chris, and be part of the questioning and discussing. I totaled it up, and we interviewed at least 19 missions/church leaders, 6 of those Indians, some Europeans, one Guatemalan, two Africans, the rest Americans. From nine organizations. Doing church planting through several strategies, sometimes incompatible with each other. Lots to process. Especially the "contextualization" thing, to a lesser extent, just where to work. The responses to posts below that try to keep a "Christian" a Christian for indentity sake are missing the point. That name was given to "us" be outsiders (at Antioch) and had nothing to do inherently with following Christ. The Great Commisson does not read: "Go and make Christians...." You know what it says. Disciples. That's the only identity we need, and that takes a lot of external forms. Robert Thiessen Well, after 24 days, I got back too, to Mexico. I was privileged to travel with Grant and Chris, and be part of the questioning and discussing. I totaled it up, and we interviewed at least 19 missions/church leaders, 6 of those Indians, some Europeans, one Guatemalan, two Africans, the rest Americans. From nine organizations. Doing church planting through several strategies, sometimes incompatible with each other.
Lots to process. Especially the “contextualization” thing, to a lesser extent, just where to work. The responses to posts below that try to keep a “Christian” a Christian for indentity sake are missing the point. That name was given to “us” be outsiders (at Antioch) and had nothing to do inherently with following Christ. The Great Commisson does not read: “Go and make Christians….” You know what it says. Disciples. That’s the only identity we need, and that takes a lot of external forms.
Robert Thiessen

]]> By: Jason.Barnett http://www.leakespeak.com/2008/05/07/india-days-1314/#comment-162 Jason.Barnett Thu, 08 May 2008 17:44:27 +0000 http://www.leakespeak.com/2008/05/07/india-days-1314/#comment-162 Glad to hear that you are back home and everything went rather smoothly. It is also great to hear that you and Grant were able to have several more meetings, listen, and experience how God has been working in India. As for the food..I'm jealous...because Indian food rocks. Ashley and I have somewhat recently become vegetarians (I think it is in the California water :) and Indian restaurants are a great place to go for copious amounts of non-meat meal choices. Glad to hear that you are back home and everything went rather smoothly. It is also great to hear that you and Grant were able to have several more meetings, listen, and experience how God has been working in India.

As for the food..I’m jealous…because Indian food rocks. Ashley and I have somewhat recently become vegetarians (I think it is in the California water :) and Indian restaurants are a great place to go for copious amounts of non-meat meal choices.

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