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A Radical Shift In Mobilization
…addressing their underlying spiritual and social roots, ~ caring solely for individuals while neglecting to fight societal systems and patterns of oppression, ~ deciding what the poor need without asking them and engaging them in the solution, ~ bypassing long-term workers who will have a clearer view of how to…
The Radical Experiment
…Additional Thoughts: Brook Hills is developing its own TEE (Theological Education by Extension). For similar benefit, MF readers can: study half-time anywhere to complete a B.A. or M.A. through WorldChristianFoundations.org, pursue a year of INtensive Study of Integrated Global History and Theology (INSIGHT) at several U.S. locations for transfer credit…
When Mission Threatens
…aid with a gleam in his eye as he shook my hand. I was attending a powwow here in Pasadena, and the irony of the greeting was not lost on me. He represented the original inhabitants of this country who have lived here for millennia, and I represented the settlers…
Walking Out the Gospel Among the People
…aid, with tears in her eyes, “Thank you, that needed to be done a long time ago.” For many non-Native people these are just offenses from the past, but to this grandmother it had been her life. Over the past eight years I have been given permission to dance in…
Learning From Our Mistakes
…atest defenders—the Church. Instead of standing with Native Americans in defending their God-given privilege to worship Jesus using their own cultural forms, the Church became an unofficial partner with political forces in the destruction of their cultures and communities. The now-infamous Indian boarding schools, where every vestige of Native culture…
The Importance of Assumptions
…aid that if we give nothing to God, when it is multiplied it is still nothing! Along this same line, Jean Johnson, whom I mentioned above, coined the phrase “premeditated sustainability.” Some missionaries have intentionally and intuitively sowed the seed of the gospel in such a way that new believers…
Every Ethne
…ategy? Quite simple, really: plug into existing ministries to come alongside, assist and help their mission-minded students keep that vision in front of them. Our desire is the same as the leaders of these ministries: we want to see people become great disciple-makers. If they can do it in their…
Jesus Lives as Good Medicine for my People
…aids. I was encouraged to write Native-style songs, sing and dance. Not long after this, many people from various denominations and churches started “finding” each other. The “moccasin telegraph” works well! We had Jonathan Maracle and Broken Walls and Richard Twiss at the new church we started in Vancouver, BC.…
Setting the Pace
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Avoiding the “Church Development” Syndrome
…ated 1.5 million members in over 13,000 assemblies. In 2007 more than 200,000 came to Christ as a result of their outreach efforts. All of this is to show that churches do not need to be paralyzed by unhealthy dependency on outside funding. In successful church-planting, there are three important…
When God’s Kingdom Grows Like Yeast
…aid this, however, they must be discreet and wise in how and where they meet. In some cases they meet like the underground church of China; in other locations they are more open. In some contexts the interpersonal or social skills of Jesus-following Muslims significantly impact neighborhood reaction and freedom…
Challenge and Opportunity for the Global Network of Mission Structures
…additional missionaries among the least-reached peoples in the next ten years? What’s it going to take? What things do we need to change? What structures need to be overhauled? Are new wineskins required? The first assignment of the GNMS was to get this conversation going by organizing this historic gathering…
Beyond Christianity
…address each other as we seek, within the wider Body of Christ, to sharpen each other’s thinking and reflection? The subject has taken a major place in recent missiological reflection. Diverse publications have published articles from different perspectives, including EMQ, Mission Frontiers, IJFM, and Christianity Today. The body of literature…
Blogging from Tokyo 2010
…aid to me after that session, “What a sobering reminder to the Korean church that we should not rest on our laurels — I can already sense that we are going the way of Europe, so we should not become arrogant.” I think I, as an American, can also say…
Setting the Pace
…address Gustavsson portrayed the stark reality of Europe today, where the vast majority of the population is turning to secularism, atheism and agnosticism. What followed was perhaps the most moving response during the entire consultation, when Dr. Yong Cho, director of the Global Network of Mission Structures (GNMS), came to…
Will Tokyo 2010 Be Remembered Like Edinburgh 2010?
…aid about Tokyo 2010, “No one will be invited! All participants will be selected and delegated by mission associations and mission agencies. This is what happened in 1910, and that would seem to be one reason why the 1910 meeting has had such an impact across the years — the…
Taking This Conversation Forward
…addressing whether a “higher” biblical view of the local church requires a blending of cultures. Indigenous mission voices from the “First Nations,” ranging from Oceania to Africa, will respond on the role of ethnic revitalization in their Christian identity. Finally, a rising generation is calling for a more comprehensive “Kingdom…
Do People Groups Still Matter?
…ate year to step back and re-visit the emphasis on “people groups” that has been foundational for the U.S. Center for World Mission and others in the frontier mission movement since 1974. Therefore, this issue of Mission Frontiers is a springboard for a series of reflections and discussions throughout 2010,…
Large Churches and Short-Term Teams
…aid something to this effect: “It is as if we toss a pebble in the pond and the ripples go out, and we may never see how far they go.” The one leading the discussion quickly agreed with what the missionary said but added this: “You are right about the…
Reaching Peoples
…address to the first Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, where he revealed that we would never complete the task of world evangelization if we continued with the same strategies and methods. Dr. Winter clarified that the global Church had not adequately understood the vast and diverse ethnic realities of the…