Andy McCullough

Foundations: Apostolic or Pastoral?

I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.

Your Worldview Is Good, But Not Enough

When Jesus asks the student of religious law, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” (Luke 10:26), he is essentially asking

Music is Storytelling, Preaching is Music

Preaching from the whole Bible is like playing music using the whole piano. Penang island. 4am. Severely jet lagged. As I sit on my balcony,

שָׁלם The God Who makes Things Right

Let me introduce you to a beautiful Hebrew verb from your Old Testament. The verb is Shalam. It’s linked to the well-known noun shalom (peace, wholeness, well-being). It’s used

The Hummingbird Trust: Why ‘Hummingbird’?

Andy McCullough leads the team that leads the Unreached Network, which facilitates best practice in cross-cultural mission across the Newfrontiers family. He and his team

Islands, Our Teachers

Andy McCullough leads the team that leads the Unreached Network, which facilitates good practice conversations in cross-cultural mission across the Newfrontiers family. I recently had

Across the Network

Here’s what I’m seeing about why so many people are reaching out to the Unreached Network, and what it is that they’re looking for. Those

The vine. Part 3 – Much Fruit

You will bear much fruit. In exploring the metaphor of the Church as the branches of a vine, let’s consider the fruit we produce.

The Vine. Part 2 – The Branches

Joh 15:5 I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart

The Vine. part 1

John 15:5 I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart

how are the british seen? is a more sober self-awareness needed?

How the British church is perceived within the global Church, and how individual missionaries are received within unreached spaces is, like it or not, one of the small realities upon the ever-shifting terrain of global perception and reception of Britain more generally.

Synergia

I’ve really been enjoying discovering the New Testament word συνεργια / synergia. This word means co-work (syn- means together or cooperative, -ergia means work or labour). The English equivalent of this word is synergy.

Reverse pentecost

Pentecost was a prophetic sign of the destination of the gospel in all cultures and languages through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. In Acts 20-21, Paul wants to show that the seeds sown 3 decades previously in Jerusalem are indeed bearing fruit among many cities and ethnicities.

Jacob’s easter moment

In Genesis 29, the patriarch Jacob rolls a stone away. It’s a foreshadowing of Easter morning in multiple ways.

passive cross-cultural leadership

Passivity or reactivity is under appreciated in Western leadership manuals. What is celebrated is initiative, forward movement, aggression. The Western leader thinks about his own strategy and vision, throws pieces forward. He does not adequately consider the contours of the culture, the whole board of history and geography and the entrenched dispositions of the status quo into which he or she is stepping.