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Book Review of Ralph D. Winter
…await in Greg Parsons’ new book Ralph D. Winter: Early Life and Core Missiology (WCIU Press, 2012)1. The book is Parsons’ doctoral dissertation recently approved by the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. It is the result of many years of association (Greg has been on staff at the USCWM…
The Ethne Ephesus Vision
…aid Ethne is like a family meeting where news of what’s happening is shared over a meal. Briefly, Ethne is a network for people passionate about reaching unreached peoples. It grew out of the meetings held after the end of the AD 2000 & Beyond Movement, when such people found…
A Conversation With David Platt
…aid it, so we’re going to do it.” I’m pointing to a greater authority. If someone’s turning their life around because of something I’ve said, they’ve missed the point. When they turn their life around because of something Jesus has said, now that’s the point. I love seeing the Word take…
Urbana Gets Radical
…aid that Urbana was InterVarsity’s gift to the mission community… Urbana 2012 has resumed that theme.” Numerous agencies which partner with Urbana commented on the remarkable level of commitment of students at Urbana 2012. This has led some to wonder whether we are on the verge of a new mission…
Kingdom Kernels
…aid to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.” And immediately they left their nets and followed him. (Mark 1:17-18 ESV, emphasis added). Mark emphasizes that disciples, like their Lord, obey immediately out of their love for God. Because disciples in CPMs frequently obey the…
Editorial
…aid, “We do not have time to waste our lives coasting out casual, comfortable Christianity. We have a master who demands radical sacrifice and we have a mission that warrants radical urgency…. Every passion, every gift, every skill He has given you, every bit of study you are getting is…
Further Reflections
…added on to their home and have had college students—often foreign students—living with them ever since. Now, they know former students all over the world who are business people, moms and dads, some in ministry, some believers, some not. Many of these students came to Christ, and most consider them…
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What’s Getting in the Way?
…aid, “Seems [like] Western missionaries and churches want to accomplish the task on their own, [there is a] huge imbalance in sharing the resources.” # 4 Prejudice “The global Church is biased against Muslims. It is hard to support workers serving people you do not like or for whom you…
The Voices of Practitioners
…additional analysis and an updated CD in 2011, and the demographic material is currently updated bimonthly. The emerging issues with respect to fruitful practices deal with topics such as factors that influence the identity that Jesus-followers choose, factors that facilitate fellowships becoming movements, the oral use of Scripture (since 75%…
From Conflict To People Group Focus
…ater (711 CE), the followers of Muhammad, in a feat of unparalleled military success, sent armies simultaneously east to the Indus River of modern-day Pakistan, and to the west to the Andalusian Coast of southern Spain. The Christian churches of the time found themselves living under Islamic regimes which, on…
Cultivating a Passion for All Peoples
…ated in the dramatic breakthrough of God’s love into their violent and isolated tribal culture. I grew up as one of them, speaking their language, loving their jungle world, and identifying with their culture. This past July, Sawi churches commemorated the event with a three-day gathering of more than 3,000…
Reaching the Unengaged
…aid, “He would like to tell you about Jesus, but he has never, ever heard his name.” The experience was a seminal moment in my life. Everything inside me shouted, “It’s not fair! It’s not fair that he doesn’t have at least one chance to hear the message of Christ.”…
Editorial
…ated equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” These familiar words, taken from the United States Declaration of Independence written in July 1776, have changed the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world. But…
Disciple-Making Movements Among Unreached Muslims
…atered, but God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. —1 Corinthians 3:6-7 (NKJV) One of Cityteam’s African leaders reminds us that the God who tells us that He could have called forth praise from rocks,…
Engaged Unreached People Groups
…adding people to his team, plugging them in, leaving them in place, and sending for them. But, he didn’t put together large teams because his focus was training and mentoring local believers, commending them to the Lord to finish what had been started. Whether unreached people groups are unengaged or…
The Most Abominable “Word”
…aid in Romans 15—“there’s plenty of work here for pastors, evangelists, teachers and everyone else, but not for me. These peoples are now engaged. I and my team will move on.” Caleb was of a different spirit, and surely there are churches and organizations which share his fire today. Surely…
Further Reflections
…aid and the data he presents helped me realize what I have been feeling: the best leadership with the greatest long-term impact happens when we invest personally in the lives of others like Jesus did and thereby empower them to lead others as well in true discipleship.
Affinity Blocs
…ately 150 people groups inhabit the Horn of Africa, a region including Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, northeast Sudan, southeast Egypt and northern Kenya. Scholars classify the peoples of the Horn into four groups of family languages: the Cushitic, the Ethio-Semitic, the Omotic and the Nilo-Saharan. Though this classification is based…
Organizational Reset
…attitude of openness among people today to use their lives well for the Lord’s purposes. But they need to know of the opportunities and they need to be coached through those doors. D. Ray Davis, Associate Vice President for Church and Partner Connections at IMB In the past, IMB primarily…