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Salvation & Societal Edification
…aid with colorful beads or tobacco. Unlike Roman Catholic priests in the region, I declined to be a bead or tobacco merchant on the grounds that steel tools, salt, fishing line, fishhooks, soap, nails, etc., would benefit the people much more than baubles and smoke (though these latter items of…
Projecting Poverty Where It Doesn’t Exist
…aid it well, “Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless. As goods increase so do those who consume them” (Ecc 5:10–11). Dangerous Charity Often charity to help the poor attracts more people into poverty. One example I have…
Disciple Making & Church Planting
…aid to possess them. If Jesus walked the way of suffering to receive the blessing of the Father, do we think we can do anything less? If we are willing to align ourselves with a tribe of people with proven passion, it will mean getting out of our comfort zone,…
William Carey
…added) God is redeeming all things. Through Christ’s blood our sins are forgiven and our fellowship with God is renewed. And not only that—we also can experience substantial healing within ourselves, with others, and with the environment. The gospel is not only good news for after we die; it…
Our Shrink-wrap World
…atements of our friends and believe that in so doing we are keeping up with them. Conversations have turned into “tweets” and meaningful dialogue has become a “chat.” We live in a shrink-wrap world where most things have been made smaller. Yet one thing that hasn’t been shrink-wrapped is the…
Blessing as Transformation
…aiding armies that had seized “all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food supply” (14:11). Not long after this, Abraham prayed that God would spare the entire city of Sodom (no doubt including some who he had already rescued from captivity). He argued his case before God,…
John Wesley’s Church Planting Movement:
…aided one another in gaining the strength to abandon sinful habits which had previously ruined their lives and consumed their resources. In explaining the rule against doing harm, Wesley specifically mentioned drunkenness and fighting. When describing the change made by coming to Christ, he noted “the drunkard commenced sober; the…
What Is Our Mission?
…aid a terrible price by focusing so much on just getting people saved and not enough on making them disciples who can and should change the world. Robert Osburn makes the point in his article, Feeding the Wolves, on page 24, that as a church we have not put enough…
Empowering our Evangelism
…added efforts. It gives them hope. It opens doors for the gospel. 2. They have the opportunity to build bridges with the entire community, including the local government. 3. It opens doors for sensitive sharing of faith with the poor, others working on the projects and government officials. In other…
Resources May be Closer than You Think
…aid, there are probably more funds where those came from. I learned in Uganda recently about a micro-finance project that went out of business for exactly that reason. People borrowed “someone else’s” money and felt little or no obligation to repay it. Thankfully, that failed micro-loan program was replaced by…
Celebrating 10 Years of Insight
…address for the evening. Thoughtfully reflecting on the last ten years, he mused upon the original goals and hopes surrounding the birth of Insight. Why should students not be able to gain the advantages of the Perspectives course in an undergraduate format, preparing their minds to interpret the information they…
The Genius of Wrong
…aid to me. “We encourage them to get to know people in our community, whether in their neighborhood or office or anywhere else. Then all they have to do is invite those people to church. At church, those people will hear relevant, gifted communicators in a warm, attractive, and appealing…
Poverty, Process and Progress
…aid for and how it would be maintained. We needed to be the ones to discover, sometimes through painful experience, who in our community had the ability to administer such a project. To understand the problem, it is also important to note how impoverished communities ended up this way. Most…
Turning Wine into Clean Water?
…aid: Some young people I brought to India felt their faith was adequate to drink the local water, so I invited a top-notch missionary doctor to talk to them. When she told them she boils every drop of water she drinks, they asked if faith wasn’t enough. She replied, “The…
Will the Poor Always Be with Us?
…aid we will always remember. Just before the Lord’s supper and arrest, this woman poured a jar of expensive perfume on Jesus’ head. Jesus knew the woman was preparing him for burial. She understood before the disciples that Jesus was headed to the cross. The disciples criticize this act of…
Poverty Is a Lie
…addressed in a separate Compassion Ministry Philosophy Paper. The statement “poverty is a lie” is not meant to deny the reality of poverty. Poverty is absolutely real. Nor is the statement meant to imply that overcoming poverty is as simple as a change of mind. The statement certainly does not…
What Is the Problem
…aid of everything; we depend on everyone. No one needs us. We are like garbage that everyone wants to get rid of. —Moldova, p. 65 When I don’t have any [food to bring my family], I borrow, mainly from neighbors and friends. I feel ashamed standing before my children when…
Microfinance
…aid, “Before, we were called slum dwellers, but this is no longer how we view ourselves in our hearts. We have hopes, we have dreams, and we want to continue moving forward in God’s vision.” Christ centered and client focused, HOPE India’s message to the poor is that they are…
How Is Missions Working Out For You? Part 2
…aid that when people come to Christ it: …inevitably take(s) place as the result of some Christian witnessing to a near neighbor, and that is evangelism. The awesome problem is that the additional truth that most non-Christians in the world today are not culturally new neighbors of any Christians, and…
The Tragedy in Japan – A Personal Statement
…aid that his desire was to preach the gospel where it had not been preached (Romans 15:20). That image of a Japanese person looking for a lost relative breaks my heart. How Christ’s heart must ache as He looks at so many in this world who have not yet made…