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As for Me and My House
…aid “I am not here to tell you how to succeed, because it is not important that you succeed by yourself. What is important is that your families and communities… are healthy and strong and have all their needs met. What I am telling you today is not just for…
God’s Plan Is to Reach Families
…aid, “How can we hope to see the kingdom of our Lord advance when His own disciples do not teach His gospel to their own children?”. Great question! How indeed?
…ate like you did in 1979 (certainly not if you were born after 1979). Publishing has been greatly effected by these changes. Devices like the Kindle and iPad are game changers. A single file uploaded to Amazon or Apple can reach millions of users without the traditional cost associated with…
…atesman wants to say to the Millennial generation now weighing the Great Commission for themselves.
Western Christianized Identity
…aid pastor. If there are already Christians nearby using the same language, we expect they will adopt the Christians’ way of saying things (as is the case with languages such as Arabic or Urdu, where religious terminology is very different between Muslims and Christians). We might expect them to go…
Tithes and Offerings vs Profit and Loss
…ated to compensate for low tithes and offerings. Sometimes church-run businesses, including development projects, become an alternative source of income to tithes and offerings. While churches are to run on tithes and offerings, businesses run on profit and loss. In various parts of Africa, weddings have become big business opportunities…
A Few Thoughts and Proposals Regarding Insider Movements
…additional peoples are always searching the Scriptures to understand how God’s Word speaks to their culture, identity and worldview. Throughout church history and across diverse cultures, the Holy Spirit seems to have applied varying facets of His comprehensive revelation about God, man and redemption. Obedience to God’s Word rather than…
Kingdom Come!
…aid, “Bill, I have finished my CPM plan. What do I do next?” Once Bill picked his jaw up off the floor, he responded, “Ying, just keep going!” Ying’s CPM plan called for a goal of 200 churches in his end-vision. Ying reached his goal in just three months! That…
Are you Ready for The Future of the Global Church?
…atest (seventh) edition of Operation World, in which Jason Mandryk and his team have given us country-by-country narratives to help us to pray and act. Now, as we turn the corner into 2012, we have before us The Future of the Global Church, Patrick Johnstone’s delightful new book that beautifully…
“In Praise of Short-term Missions”
…aid for what happens when those from different backgrounds apply their skill-set to the mission context. Medical mission is a good example. Begun as an effort to care for missionaries, medical specialists soon saw the many needs around them in the local population and created ministries for them not originally…
Short-Term Trips, Bible Storying and Church-Planting
…aid, “I am Muslim. But these people [the Christians] are good people. We love their stories. We send our children to them to learn the stories. If they need anything, materials or food, we will provide what they need.” Stunned by this Muslim man’s offer, I asked Markos why the…
Can Short-Term Teams Foster Long-Term Church-Planting Movements?
…aid to his companion, “You have to tell the bus driver to stop.” “Why?” the friend puzzled. “Because those children there are all alone, and someone needs to do something to help them.” Then his companion spoke the truth about the people in this mission field that caused even this…
Learning from the Mission Field How to Plant Churches
…aid professionals. Is it any wonder that the Church in the West has stagnated? All of us must become doers of the Word and not just hearers. Accountability At the heart of every Church Planting Movement is loving accountability to obey what they are taught. At every stage of a…
Patron-Client Missions
…aid that a foreigner is like a faucet; he may not be flowing now, but if you stick around long enough, the money will eventually begin to flow… . But in the long run, is patron-client evangelism reproducible for those whom we are seeking to disciple? Can they take the gospel…
Ideas Can Be More Powerful Than Money
…aid that “ideas are more powerful than guns.” One could add that ideas can be more powerful than money as well. While money often gets used up, good ideas have the potential to keep on giving long after the initial investment is made. To put this another way, this is…
Mapping the Unfinished Task
…atement is one which Ralph Winter was often known to recite. Though obviously a generalization, history has demonstrated the reality that the more people know of God’s plan the further the Great Commission has advanced. It was an early dream of the founders of the U.S. Center for World Mission…
Africa Rising?
…aid that the first group of returned slaves (thus “Freetown”) gathered around the tree upon arrival in 1792 and sang, Awake and sing of Moses and the Lamb Wake! every heart and every tongue To praise the Saviour’s name The day of Jubilee is come; Return ye ransomed sinners home.…
Finishing the Task in East Africa
…aid to be engaged, there are 9 groups where the gospel seems to exert little influence. (These include the Afar, Harari, Somalis, Jimma Oromo, Agua, Qebena, Allaaba, and Siliti.) Among these people groups, it would be good to carefully consider and perhaps reevaluate the methods of approach when presenting the…
MANI 2011 Abuja, Nigeria
…addle the contested belt between the Muslim-dominated North and the Christian-dominated South. It is this contested middle belt that contains the majority of the remaining least reached peoples, be they animistic or Muslim. (See map) Because of the dominance of Christianity in the southern half of Africa, the catchphrase for…
Raising Local Resources:All Without Money
…aid – about desiring the good life – “But seek first his [the Father’s] Kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” Transformation of the heart comes first.f Jean Johnson served as a missionary with Assembly of God World Missions in Cambodia for…