Thinking about the “future of mission” (or of anything for that matter) requires imagination.
A couple of decades ago I began to collect ideas and images of the future. One of several descriptors I used to paint portraits of the future was this:
The gospel within human frameworks — We tend to use the term “human” in the negative: “Well, he’s only human.”
But what if we added to our mental vistas of humanity a positive idea of what it means to be human.
I know this is a stretch for many of you because we so often think [...]