Mission Matters - Contemporary Issues in World Mission

Mission Matters is a new series of occasional papers on contemporary issues in World Mission. It is published on line by the World Focus Team. The purpose of Mission Matters is to stimulate thinking on significant issues in World Mission.

Here are the first two issues of Mission Matters.

Mission Matters 2012.1 - Contextualisation, Context and Compromise

Mission Matters 2012.2 - Affinity Churches and World Mission

Posted 6th February 2012 | Comments 0

February Prayer Calendar

The February Prayer Calendar is now available to download. Join with us in praying for the work of many churches and ministries across the Affinity family.

Prayer Calendar - February 2012

Posted 31st January 2012 | Comments 0

SixtyEightFive becomes an Affinity Associate

We are pleased to welcome SixtyEightFive as an Affinity Associate.

Ian Williamson is the Director of this ministry which is based in Middlesborough. The name of the ministry is taken from Psalm 68, verse 5, “A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.”

Ian works as a Community Chaplain and, together with his team, seeks to encourage and support lone parent families, and to promote the vital role of fathers in a community where many children and young people are being drawn into criminal activities.

You can find out more about SixtyEightFive at www.sixtyeightfive.co.uk

Posted 31st January 2012 | Comments 0

Affinity's Submission to the Government Consultation on the Public Order Act

In recent years the Public Order Act 1986 has been used by the police in ways which have unjustifiably hindered the legitimate freedoms of Christian street-preachers and others involved in evangelistic projects.  

Affinity therefore welcomes the government's current review of the wording of Section 5 of the existing Act, including the public Consultation, which closed on 13 January, over whether the use of "insulting" words and behaviour should continue to be a criminal offence.   

Affinity, convinced that the ministry of street preachers and others is well outside the legal definition intended by the word "insulting" in the 1986 Act, has responded to this Consultation, contending that the word should be removed from the Act.  This would leave the police with far fewer grounds for intervention, and preserve a Christian freedom which existed in practice, uncontroversially, for more than 250 years prior to the high profile incidents of the last 10 years.

Affinity Submission to the Government Consultation on the Public Order Act 1986

Posted 19th January 2012 | Comments 0

Foundations - Issue 61 now available online

The second online edition of Foundations is now available in both pdf and html formats.This is the first time Foundations has been published in html format.

This issue of Foundations offers a range of articles and reviews which will be of interest to our readers. Dan Strange’s article is the substance of the paper that he gave at the Affinity Theological Studies Conference in February 2011. John Legg provides a provocative exegesis of the parable of The Good Samaritan. Thorsten Prill identifies key issues in world mission today and challenges churches, missions and missionaries to be caught up in a missionary movement with God. Ralph Cunnington provides a critique of the views of Francis Turretin on the authority of Scripture. Eryl Davies provides a detailed review of a number of recent books dealing with the doctrine of the Trinity. There are also a number of other book reviews.

Foundations - Issue 61

Posted 12th December 2011 | Comments 0