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A Church Planting Movement in Cuba?
…adding 18 new churches and 61 new house churches.7 A local Alliance church grew from 6 to 140 members in 1996.8 The Western Baptist Convention described the 1990s as “the one with the most growth in our history” accomplished “without strategy,” “without temples,” and “without equipment.”9 This massive response to…
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…ated resources in Mission Frontiers. We feel this is the best way to build the frontier mission movement as a whole. If you are a frontier missions related organization -- either sending, service or a college or university -- and you would like to reach our audience of missions-minded readers,…
You Can Know God Personally
…aid tribute to Moses and his wisdom. He said, "Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians.” Josephus tells us about Moose’s early life and education. The Egyptian princess who had Moses taken out of the Nile River was Thermuthis. The Egyptians called water Mo and such as…
Lausanne, Cape Town 2010
…ates/observers, 1,200 stewards, and hundreds of GlobalLink sites, you certainly have a range of opinions to consider. I was able to observe the event with seven others in the Statement Working Group, who, like the full range of congress participants, were from around the world. The group, led by Chris…
A Discipleship Revolution
…await a fair opportunity to know and follow Jesus. At the same time the Church in the West is at best stalled. In Europe the Church is in serious decline. We are forced to ask ourselves, "Have we missed something? What is keeping us from making the progress we would…
Avery Willis’ Last Dream
…aid the American church was going to be left behind. The more Avery talked about Bible Storytelling, the more intrigued the RLM leadership team became. After a couple of years of discussion, they decided to try Bible Storytelling in a few small groups. The experiment was so successful that they…
Training for Trainers Process
…aid to share with everyone. We cannot predict who will believe and whom God will use to birth a movement. Make disciples (trainers), not church members: We must not satisfy ourselves with making converts and church members. Jesus commanded much more. He wants true disciples. And what do true disciples…
Joining the Discipleship Revolution
…addiction to pursuing exciting opportunities ahead of taking care of basic responsibilities. As a result I was often running ahead of God to do things He may have planned for others to do, misusing the resources He had entrusted to me, and missing out on “walking” with Him. I was…
A Passionate Call for Maturity that Reproduces
…aid, "I think Daws has personally touched more lives than anybody I have ever known." In 1956, shortly before he drowned saving someone else, Daws gave a powerful message detailing his discipleship insights. This message influenced discipleship strategy around the world, and epitomizes the Navigator ministry in particular. Jim Downing…
Discipling the Nations and The Insider Movement Conversation
…address discipleship from the perspective of the so-called “insider” paradigm. I am not going to describe a strategy for multiplying disciples and disciple-makers. I have two far more modest ambitions: The first purpose is to clarify terminology; the second is to close what I think might be a gap in…
Discipleship Deja Vu
…ate discipleship practices (this is also true for evangelism, without which there is nobody to disciple). In other words, the problem is as much systemic as it is personal. Many of us do want to be disciplers, but find we are locked in a system that discourages it. Breaking free…
Your Guide to This Issue
…added to the website daily. You can search this content or see a full list. Older content not yet in the new system can still be found on the back issues page. See a demo here in this video: Order Free Extra Copies of This Issue Until available copies are…
Giving an Answer for Our Hope
…aid this as He was sending out the disciples. The first part of the verse says: “I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves” so as you go, He says: “be wise….” (Matthew 10:16, NET.bible.org) But there is more to the context. In the passage that follows, He tells…
The Other Side of Zeal
…aid, I would like to focus on a couple problems that often accompany mission zeal. Before I begin, let me say that I am one who, if forced to decide between the two, will take zeal over knowledge any day of the week. I don’t want to rain on our…
Let the Children Come
…addy, Are We There Yet?, published in 2009, supplements this by pulling together an amazing amount of information regarding the plight of children worldwide, and giving her readers powerful motivation to get involved (www.daddyarewethereyet.org). Meanwhile, we hear numerous stories of children all over the world doing great spiritual exploits, proving…
Radical
…aid, “I’m sorry. I’m just not called to that.” The result is tragic. A majority of individuals supposedly saved from eternal damnation by the gospel are now sitting back and making excuses for not sharing that gospel with the rest of the world. But what if we don’t need to…
A Call to Radical Disciple-making
…addition to Radical, Floyd McClung has released his new book Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus. Both of these books are calling the church to “radical discipleship.” On top of this, the latest edition of Operation World, which helped lead David Platt to his mission vision,…
Global Network of Centers for World Mission
…ate, educate and facilitate strategic involvement of the Church in world mission. Training Center that equips and prepares believers for cross-cultural service, and/or offers specialized training in specific areas. Resource Center that conducts research, produces and makes available a wide range of mission materials. Development Center that initiates and encourages…
Going Radical
…aid, “I wonder at some points if I’m being irresponsible or unwise. But then I realize there is never going to come a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, ‘I wish you would have kept more for yourself.’ I’m confident that God will…
Going Radically
…attachments of this world” (page 14). This is an important corrective to the “benefits-oriented” Christianity of our day. In reflecting on Platt’s call to embrace God’s concern for the lost and poor, I was reminded of the need to consider the long-term implications of our actions. For more than 30…