I remember listening to a message by a prominent Reformed speaker. He contended that while our confessions and catechisms were right and useful, yet we tend to freeze-dry them and rigidly force them into cultural contexts were they are not always immediately relevant. He suggested that we need to be sensitive to the questions that the culture is [...]
Archive for October, 2009
The right questions
Posted in Catechesis on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The early city mission work of the ‘king of the cannibals’ (1)
Posted in Cure of Souls, David Nasmith, Vignettes from 19th Century District Visitation, Visitation Evangelism on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It has been some time since I’ve read the classic John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides (1898). A truly amazing story of God’s work through a humble, Scottish Presbyterian missionary among the cannibals of Australasia.
But I had altogether forgotten the book’s recounting of his preparatory work in the Glasgow City Mission. He had been [...]
