I also thought I’d add a ‘tag cloud’ – just because I like them – but a word of explanation is necessary. I have only fairly recently started tagging posts, so more recent posts are heavily biased in the cloud. Hence the enormous significance of Ajith Fernando and his book, on which I have been doing chapter by chapter reviews. Until I get round to either i) going back and tagging some older stuff or ii) writing some more stuff with tags, not related to Jesus Driven Ministry, then we’ll just have to put up with it…

We were therefore delighted to have our attention drawn to a piece by Matthew Parris from The Times a couple of days ago. In it, confirmed atheist Matthew Parris states that, “Missionaries, not aid money, are the solution to Africa’s biggest problem – the crushing passivity of the people’s mindset.”

He is arguing that the individualism of post-reformation Christianity is a much needed antidote to the problems caused by the “crushing tribal groupthink” that characterises the rural African mind.

Whilst we might see an over-emphasis on individualism in many protestant forms of Christianity as a distortion of the New Testament teaching on the inter-connectedness of all believers in Christ, it is wonderfully refreshing to see an atheist with the intellectual honesty to affirm the life-changing nature of the gospel, and to speak of its benefits. Congratulations Mr Parris!

We would like to wish you all a Happy New Year, and one in which you know more of the life-changing work of the Triune God.

So a pretty standard blog then. Do come again.