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Zarina’s Story
…aid out in Matthew 10 and Luke 10 intrigued her. What Needs To Be Done? At the end of the first level of training we encouraged everyone to practice sowing seeds of the kingdom (shema lifestyle) to look for people who might be People of Peace, to practice doing Discovery…
Neighbors of Peace
…ate, unsure, or just busy. However, the beauty of God’s command to bring the gospel is that God equips us and empowers us to obey in our daily rhythms. This is huge. Jesus has placed you where you are because He plans to come there. He plans to come to…
Unflinching Grace-Filled Evaluation
…ate all that we’re doing we may find ourselves way off course. Spirit-led Realignment David Watson and Victor John did this with the Bhojpuri people movement in India. One case was when they trained the church planters into becoming church planter catalysts. After this period of re-evaluation, David and Victor…
Searching For Persons of Peace
…aid yes! Immediately, I encouraged her to gather her friends to study with her. Liz was the first Person of Peace I had met in our new city. And just as the pattern of Matthew 10 and Luke 10 describe, Liz opened up her household (affinity group) for the truth…
When Honoring Parents Trumps Christian Duty
…aid he felt relieved that he didn’t have to (some Christians told him he must not.) After some discussion, the global worker asked: “Did you borrow any money from the bank to go to school?” Thai young man: “Yes” Worker: “When did you borrow it?” Young man: “As a freshman,…
A Big Day Has Arrived
…aid to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.…
Publishing at SWM and William Carey Library
…addition, many church growth studies were produced and sold by WCL.[4] Ralph Covell wrote an article describing mission book publishing from the mid-1960s to late 1973.[5] He mentioned WCL as one of two institutions begun during the last decade and many books published by WCL were mentioned.[6] Covell also mentioned…
What Does Rome Have To Do With Pasadena?
…aid that Donovan could not just baptize some of them and not others, even though not all of them were at the same point of faith. “We believe,” he said. Maybe not everyone is at the same place, but the community would make sure that everyone would eventually arrive at…
I Will Do a New Thing
…aid, “It is clear that the sodality, as it was recreated again and again by different leaders, was almost always the prime mover.” And today, the School of Intercultural Studies, is a leader in global and cross-cultural evangelism. Dr. Ralph Winter came to describe the difference between Fuller and the…
Eschatology and Mission
…ated in the future, not in the present. The Globalization Phenomenon The most important consequence of such change in perspective, in my opinion, is not so much the change in the axis of our perspective, but the phenomenon of globalization. I am particularly referring to the globalization of the Christian…
4 Stages of a Movement
…additional training in context. Indigenous believers do not wait for outsiders to initiate evangelism, baptism, discipleship, church planting or leadership of churches. The movement grows because of their confidence that they are commissioned and empowered to do the work of ministry. Most believers and leaders do not see a great…
Core Issues and Interesting Characters
…aid, “Let’s not start the history of Christianity in 32 A.D.” He walked to the farthest left hand corner of the blackboard, which stretched across the entire wall behind him, and he said, “Let’s start with Abraham.” And he wrote the year 2000 B.C. on the blackboard. “What is this!”…
Reflections on My Service in the SWM/SIS
…aid that if I applied to study there, he would pay my application fee. (That is quite different from paying the tuition.) I wrote to the SWM from Zambia and expressed interest in studying there. I got a personal hand-typed letter from Dr. McGavran, the dean, done on his small…
The Center for Missiological Research at Fuller Theological Seminary
…addition to the weekly or biweekly seminar meetings, there are also at least monthly colloquia where second-and later-year students present emerging aspects of their research to faculty and peers. This solicits opportunities for analysis and discussion, and our quarterly events hosted by faculty (the Salon Missiologique) feature presentations, usually by…
Declaring the Wonders of God in Our Own Tongues
…attitude of early Pentecostals in the public sphere has given way to a greater degree of political engagement because of the changing nature and demographic compositions of contemporary Pentecostal movements.[4] At the grassroots level, Africa’s older independent churches have, for example, appeared apolitical, but being the first groups of religious…
A “Fuller” Vision of God’s Mission and Theological Education
…aid of new approaches if they prove to contribute to the expansion of God’s kingdom. But what role does SIS have in the new era of Christian mission, if we are going to see a radically new era of world Christianity and its mission? Two areas will be briefly examined.…
School of World Mission AT 50
…addition, I have played a part in what may be called “contextualization studies”—seeking to find ways for people to follow Christ in their own way, following their own Jesus, not a foreign one. Because so much of mission has been tainted with Western ideas and practices, one of the tasks…
Achieving the Hope and Promise of Using Technology for Bible Translation While Avoiding the Pitfalls
…Additional Sovee-generated translations produce better rough drafts with less improvement needed. This method is not product-oriented, but rather community process-oriented. Consultants review the final drafts when all parties believe it is ready for wider distribution. The biggest pitfall of using machine translation technology with no checks and balances is avoided…
Bible Translation in the Digital Age
…aid they enjoyed working with their language and were growing in their understanding of that language as well as the regional language. They liked learning together and gained a better understanding of the Bible and the translation process. They also communicate joy in being able to contribute to development of…
Free and Open
…ated. This is a true story, and there are many more like it. From the beginning, the Bible was the common property of the Church. But today, in virtually every language where it is available, the Bible is not the common property of the Church and it is not freely…