Missiology and Old Colonialism

I have put a new link to a missionary guy Keith Smith who is blogging as part of his site. Under the acacias is his site and he recently posted around the 10/40 window and emerging church. It got me thinking about how now we are more missionary minded in the west and the amount we “borrow” from the missionaries. I have been massively influenced by Donovan’s Christianity Rediscovered but it was only after Keith’s post that I got thinking about the amount I have “borrowed”. I wondered if I have been guilty of the same colonizing attitude of the past that I so often criticise. It got me thinking about how and in what ways this can be countered.