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An Unlikely Miracle
…addition, two experienced translation consultants reviewed each of these translations. To everyone’s great encouragement, the translation consultants concluded that the quality of the translations done using the MAST method was equal to the quality of translations that had taken months longer to accomplish. The translation by the Ng, who had…
Bible Translation 3.0
…aid down their lives for the advance of the Gospel in other languages, making the most of the opportunities available to them at the time. They are worthy of honor for their work to that end. You can learn more about the unfolding Word at http://ufw.io/bt3. You can learn…
Living at the Top of the Mountain
…aid, “You unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him here to Me.” (Matt. 17:17, NASB) We reserve the word “perverted” for only the most heinous of sins. It is not that someone is simply off track…
The ISIS Crisis
…aid: “I see that the religious discourse in the entire Islamic world has cost Islam its humanity...and desperately needs a religious revolution.” 5 Numerous Muslim leaders now echo President al-Sisi’s call for reassessment. These include Professor Dr. Sheikh Ahmad Muhammad al-Tayyeb, the Grand Imam of Al- Azhar University; Ahmed Aboutaleb,…
Rapid Mobilization
…aid the salary of an ordinary traveling preacher and was still traveling when he died at 70 years of age. Asbury’s leadership and example inspired an army of circuit riders, many of whom followed his example and remained unmarried. There were no formal vows, but in the early days of…
Ekballo
…aid “YES PLEASE!” So we prayed in the name of Jesus, and then had him test it out by smacking his foot against the concrete. He proceeded, and the man’s eyes enlarged and he stared deep into mine and shouted in Arabic, “I SWEAR TO GOD, I SWEAR TO GOD,…
The Syrian Refugee Crisis
…aid, “I am thinking about what they did to my Baba.” The teacher who was sitting with us said, “John, we think the regime made him watch as they buried his father alive.” The boy read the reaction on my face. I was sad and shocked and was shaking my head…
The Evangelical Recession and the Mission Task
…ates teamed up with Jim Harries of Alliance for Vulnerable Mission for this endeavor. Executive leaders of mission organizations and agencies expressed a concern regarding the declining church attendance in the UK and theresulting decrease in giving to global missions. And then, just yesterday, a colleague was telling me about…
The Lens of Kingdom Movements in Scripture: A Biblical Exegesis of Church-Planting Movements
…aid we set the pace? If we take credit for the pace, then we are taking credit for the growth. ” If growth is God’s responsibility (1 Cor. 3:6-7), then surely pace is also. Epistles: Discipling a Movement At first glance, kingdom movements feel very distant in the Epistles. But…
What Are the Challenges & Opportunities of a Post-Skyes-Picot Middle East
…aid in an interview with the Catholic News Agency of Africa (CANAA), “I have to say that the communities [South Sudan] have never had the opportunity to live together as a nation. It is the first time we are beginning to have this sense [of a nation]. Yes, it is true…
Hope in the Midst of Despair
…aid it well: I could never myself believe in God, if it were not for the cross.... In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?... I have turned instead to that lonely, twisted, tortured figure on the cross, nails through hands…
Kairos Timing
…attacking Sinjar and slaughtering his Yazidi people. Being responsible for his six siblings after his father’s death, this 22-year-old prepared his family to leave. By 7:30 am, Ibrahim and his family joined the mass exodus walking over 14 kilometers from his village to Mount Sinjar by foot. There was no…
How to Pray
…aid, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the…
Transform World: The Seven Challenges
…aid, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” (Joh. 13:34-35). The goal of Christ’s Missional Challenge for…
Confronting the Challenges of Our Time
…aid in recent decades for too many Jesus followers not living on mission with God has been extremely high. If you have not noticed, the church of Jesus is in decline in the West. The West has entered a “post-Christian era” where biblical truth is being attacked and marginalized in…
The Numbers Dilemma
…aid something else: He wasn’t interested in a list. When pushed, in order to help key leaders who argued for the need, he would give his input. He published other’s lists in MF. Coming from Fuller’s School of World Missions (SWM), which focused on church growth at the time, Winter…
Baptism in Muslim Ministry
…aid So The rite of baptism was developed during the Intertestamental Period, and was famously utilized by John the Baptist. John’s baptism centered on repentance, and climaxed in the baptism of Christ himself (though ironically he had nothing to repent of). Then after Jesus’ resurrection and before His ascension he…
Transform World: A Starfish Structure
…aid: An organization is more top-down, structured and controlling. Movements are more grass roots, dynamic and collaborative. Movements are dynamic, self-propagating, and encouraging to others to start similar efforts, without owning them. We have decided that we are not going to try to protect our “brand” of transformation. Transform World Connections (TWC)…
A Call for Servant Catalysts to Join God’s Mission of Transformation
…aid to his followers: “Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness” (Mat. 6:33a). Seeking the kingdom of God results in personal and cultural transformation which has emerged as a unifying vision for the mission of the Church at the beginning of the 21st century. As Christ followers we are pursuing…
Transform World 2020
…address issues of life directly, rooted in a gospel perspective.”[1] Transformation is a concept rooted in the New Covenant (see Joh. 4:14, Rom. 12:2, 2 Cor. 3:18, 5:17, and I Joh. 3:9). The term itself derives from the Greek word metamorphoo which means ‘to change from one degree of glory…