Christopher Wright: false dichotomies in mission

An interesting couple of posts (highlighted by Timmy Brister) in which Christopher Wright (author of The Mission of God and The God I Don’t Understand) sets out five false dichotomies in mission:

1. Opposing the individual and the cosmic and corporate impact of the gospel, and prioritizing the first.
2. Opposing believing and living the gospel, and prioritizing the first.
3. Opposing evangelism and discipleship, and prioritizing the first.
4. Opposing word and deed, or proclamation and demonstration, and prioritizing the first.
5. Opposing evangelism and ecclesiology, and prioritizing the first.

Read both parts in full.