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…aid of the colonizers' encounters with Islam. European traders typically took one of two approaches in relation to the Muslim populations they encountered. If the ports were controlled by Muslim sultans, the Europeans conspired with local non-Muslim factions to divide and conquer to gain an advantage. If the foreign lands…
Welcoming Muslim Neighbors into God’s Kingdom in East Africa
…ate, others illiterate. Some were interviewed by myself, others by other interviewers under my supervision. Question 1: Why did you decide to follow Jesus the Messiah? — because of… By clustering some of the above mentioned factors, we identified four-main areas that led to their conversion: Jesus verses found in the…
A Novice’s Guide to Fielding Common Muslim Objections
…atest commandments: Love God with all you are and love your neighbor as yourself. If that is our core occupation and our driving motivation, we will do well. We’re loving people Jesus loves, not trying to win a gun fight at the O.K. Corral! Since these objections can sometimes (intentionally!)…
Further Reflections
…aid he had proposed this to his mission and to other organizations. No one was opposed, but no one gave leadership to it either. Actually, Ralph D. Winter had the idea many years ago. Back before there were missions that mobilized a bunch of really young people to go out…
God is Doing Something Historic
…aid of the colonizers’ encounters with Islam. European traders typically took one of two approaches in relation to the Muslim populations they encountered. If the ports were controlled by Muslim sultans, the Europeans conspired with local non-Muslim factions to divide and conquer to gain an advantage. If the foreign lands…
Kingdom Kernels
…addition, you will simultaneously find yourself in different fields with different groups as you walk them down the CPM path. Field 1: Finding God-prepared people [Represented by seeds planted in furrows–casting seeds to find good soil] (Lk. 10:6; Mk. 1:17, Jn. 4:35, 16:8) CPM practitioners believe that the Holy Spirit…
Any-3
…aid to ask questions along the way. Wrap up by asking them three questions: “Are your sins paid off yet?” “When do you think your sins will be paid off?” “On Judgment Day, do you know that your sin debt will be paid?” Transition #3: “What I believe is different;…
Guide Muslims to the Bible
…aid, ‘No one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.’”5 “Both the Qur‘an and the Bible teach us to seek God’s ‘Straight Path.’ 6 If I, born a Christian, try to behave like a Muslim to enter God’s kingdom, is that a straight path?” “No.” “And…
12 Months Blocs Spotlight for August 2013
…aid. Her shoes, barely clinging to her feet, are too cheap to stay together. Yet her smile is bright, for she is on her way home from school, where she is regarded as a top student. Her school, one of the few and poor Tibetan schools in the Northern Himalayas,…
12 Months Blocs Spotlight for July 2013
…ates that eight Indian states have more impoverished people than 26 of Africa’s poorest countries combined, totaling more than 410 million people. Many ask, “Shouldn’t India’s Christians reach India?” India has less than 50 million evangelicals (4% of the population), mostly in the far northeastern and southern states. India’s central and…
From the Editor
…ated individuals but whole families and communities. In our lead article for this issue, Dr. David Garrison reports on an unprecedented number of movements to Christ developing among Muslim communities all over the world (see page 6). As Garrison reports, in the first 1,300 years since Muhammad, there was only…
Church on the Porch
…addiction and fractured relationships. Some of them are still using drugs or living together. Jeff never compromises what the Scripture teaches; he knows that making disciples takes time. Some time later Jeff met with Neil Perry, pastor of a growing church in nearby Forest City. After planting the church, Neil…
Demystifying Discipleship
…ate is just as urgent now as it was 2000 years ago. With almost one-third of the world’s population and thousands of people groups still without viable access to the gospel message, we need to “be the church” in a way that will effectively train disciples to make and train…
Ying Kai and the Power of Multiplication
…aid to share with everyone. We cannot predict who will believe and whom God will use to birth a movement. • Make disciples and trainers, not passive church members. Jesus wants true disciples who obey his commands—including the commands to witness to others and train new believers to do the…
Loving Our “Unwanted” Neighbors
…aid, however, that this marginalization is simply due to ongoing discrimination—they are not passive agents in their own history. Rather, there are elements within the Roma culture itself which contribute to the separation from the surrounding culture. Even after over 800 years of being in Europe, the Roma remain not…
Kingdom Kernels
…aid hold of that promise. These were their verses. God had shown them their place in the cosmic plan for the redemption of this world. They took up this mantle and began to spread the kingdom of God from village to village and from valley to valley. The counterintuitive nature…
Further Reflections
…aid for it all! Now, as their kids go off to college, the parents are looking forward to where they might go next and the wife is as up for it as the husband! As we talked, it was clear how much they enjoyed a particular class at their church…
Raising Local Resources
…aid the dormitory was necessary so that the girls can be “safe” from the evil in the surrounding villages. As I read it, the appeal made me sad because I had some personal knowledge of that area of Africa. The gospel has been preached in that area for over 100…
An Interview with Dr. David Howard
…attitude and interest. He was desperate to follow-up this fresh interest in world missions. By the summer of 1974 he had designed a two-week seminar for students, the Summer Institute of International Studies (SIIS), to explore the biblical basis, history, culture and strategy of missions. This was the precursor of…
What I’ve Learned from 14 Urbanas
…aid: “Never let your education stand in the way of the will of God.” I have used that gem of wisdom dozens of times since then in my own advising of missionary candidates. Shifts in Missions: Urbana programs have reflected many of the major shifts in missions practice over the…