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Reaching the Deaf
…ate a conversation with the Senior Pastor of a large metropolitan church that was interested in beginning a ministry with the Deaf. “We want to begin a ministry with the Deaf community, here in our town. I am calling to investigate the feasibility of such a ministry. Would you be…
Ghana 2013 Report
…aid he came to serve others, not to be served. We call upon all those of influence in society to use their position for good, to uphold justice, to honor the truth, to defend the innocent and protect the vulnerable. We covenant before God to hold ourselves to the highest…
Why Communicate the Gospel Through Stories
…added a number of stories from the Old Testament to illustrate the abstract (theoretical) concepts in the lessons through pictorial (concrete) characters and objects. I told stories about Creation, the Fall, Cain and Abel, the Flood, the escape from Egypt, the giving of the Ten Commandments, the Tabernacle, Elijah and…
Post Gutenberg!
…ate world communicates through textual means and often is not able to convey the whole context in a communiqué. The textual “story” is truncated or emptied of meaning. As we enter the digital culture, one that is defined by collaborating with multimodal content and tasks, strangely we are on a…
The Two Journeys of Shanti & Jasmine
…aid, “This story used to bother me, because I didn’t agree with it. But now, after what happened to me, I’m changing my beliefs about why bad things happen to people.” It took a year and a half of story after story for Shanti to come to this conclusion. Some…
Contextualizing the Gospel in a Visual World
…addressing the need to contextualize the gospel among those who are illiterate or functionally illiterate. A new movement to contextualize the gospel among the world’s population that is “visually literate” (able to interpret meaning from an image) is expanding. One of the greatest gaps in the global outreach of the…
From the Editor
…aid to Christine, “I’ve talked with numerous religious leaders but they’ve never been able to answer my questions satisfactorily. So I’ve given up on religion. I am trying to live a good life.” “What were your questions?” Christine asked. “The main one is, why the world is so unfair? Why…
Church-Planting Movements Among Oral Learners
…aid, “Tell me stories about Jesus or some of your other prophets.” The idea behind this was to learn as much as the locals knew about their prophets and therefore where their hearts were. Most locals knew very few stories about any of the prophets. In fact, the stories locals…
Raising Local Resources
…adequacy and discover that apart from the filling of the Holy Spirit, they will never become adequate. This means moving from the syndrome of church development to the dynamic of missionary outreach. When this is done appropriately, people will become “World” Christians, not just Christians in name only. So, let…
Further Reflections
…aid it this way: …when we think we are superior and are recognized as superior then we are working from a common worldview and things can proceed smoothly, but when our assumed superiority is not recognized, there is a worldview clash and little hope of success, particularly since God is…
Important Points to Remember When Storytelling
…aid what to whom. Be patient. I learned to not assume anything, and to be very patient as even my interpreters sorted out story details. On one occasion, I was a bit exasperated because my interpreter kept asking for scripture references in order to see what his Bible said. When…
Water + Gospel = Transformation
…aid Kunguru. “Our children will never know this kind of suffering, praise the Lord.” I was sitting with a group of Maasai women near a recently installed water system, under the acacia tree by a tin-roofed church in Kenya’s Rift Valley. I had come to listen to their stories and…
Water and Poverty
…aid, “I believe that the days of the conventional ‘northern’ development agency are numbered,” and I think he may be right. With communications and direct support being what they are today, I think it is really becoming possible to move the power, decision-making, and resources into traditionally poor churches and…
Raising Local Resources
…aid to be a force that grows “all by itself” (Mark 4:28). God delights in initiatives that use the “least of these” to shame the more influential of the world. His power is most evident in community transformation that relies on local initiative.
Further Reflections
…address a range of issues confronting us. Winter seemed forgetful or focused elsewhere, but he was diligent to keep almost everything that came across his desk. As a result, when he died, there were some 900 boxes or file cabinets of materials. Many of them were archival materials of the…
Kingdom Kernels
…aid, “Up to that village over there,” the man responded, “No you’re not! You’ve come to see me!” My friend recognized this as an abnormal response and set aside his agenda in order to go to the stranger’s house. In that house he immediately went for broke and shared a…
Watering and Planting
…aid and the community was not maintaining their water source. On the church planting side, we sometimes struggled with moving too quickly before critical foundations were laid and the leadership established. And the results were often negative for the young church. Patience and perseverance is needed to reach each goal.…
The Meaning of Ethne in Matthew 28:19
…aid that all peoples are affected without distinction by the judgment and grace of the one God.”5 In Appendix A, prepared by Dan Scribner, the various words used in the NT for peoples, languages, nations etc. in Revelation 5:9 are compared. Some combination of these terms appears seven times in…
The Case & Call for Oral Bibles
…aid, “Circle.” He then drew a square and asked, “What is that?” and we all said, “Square.” Then he drew a triangle and we all said, “Triangle.” Avery turned around and looked at us and said, “You say that because you are literate. If you were a non-literate person you…