Keith's Messages

We have said the purpose of ANCC is: Making Jesus Known to Everyone, Everywhere. We have said one of our four priorities is: Mission: Reaching out with the Good News, both home and away  Today and next time I speak, I shall be outlining some biblical basis for this through the OT and NT., the biblical arc of missions. Now, for some of you I will not go deep enough into a particular area. We need to remember that theology is a trying to define the vastness of God in human terms, it is a bit like a kaleidoscope, a huge pattern but we look at one segment at a time. Theology emerges after people encounter God in His self-disclosure and His sending them on their mission within His overarching mission.  Sadly, today, it seems possible to have theology without mission, but I would suggest it is impossible to have mission without theology, for theology always begins with an encounter with the missional God.  If anything, much of the church has a theology of ‘non-mission’, preferring to blend i