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Who Am I? Who Are We? And Does it Matter?
…aid, some ideas are more profound and more lasting than others. In my opinion, the ideas that last the longest, that separate themselves from mere fads, are the ones that most closely reflect reality. For 35 years now, the people group concept has been widely accepted as an idea that…
Further Responses to Paul Hiebert
…aid to social distinctives if you want to get 20 people together in a church setting. Even in a church of 200, there may be little to no regard for the communities (people groups) from which individuals come. But if you want a people movement (assuming this goal is not…
Lifting, Pushing, Squeezing and Blending
…aid, “Dior Shyukh” (the Houses of the Sheikhs). I discovered that 60 years earlier this had been the seat of government for the entire tribal confederation. Now it was run-down, forgotten, not even a tourist stop. My wife would tell me that all the women at the public bath knew…
Learning the Lay of the Land
…aid about this small nation, including the difficulties of meaningfully helping a country where the rule of law is questionable and where only a few people control the flow of money. In 1980 my wife spent a summer in Haiti while she was in nursing school. Then, in 1982, with…
Do No Harm
…addition, the manner in which many such groups are organized means that competition is reduced through cooperative efforts, allowing all boats in the harbor to rise together. It is a spirit of cooperation rather than a spirit of competition that makes this a wholesome process. Admittedly, it takes more time…
A Strategic Vision
…aid, “We need this training and impact here.” We were eager to respond. We started our training with our proven Harvest Connection seminar. Harvest Connection includes a teaching on the Biblical Basis of Missions, The State of the World, The State of Ethiopia, What a Great Commission Church Looks Like,…
New Bridges
…ate location, native language, course objectives, and teacher experience; I sift through the existing texts; and then I have to explain why no text is adequate to accomplish the task. That calculation just got much easier, thanks to the introduction of the New Bridges curriculum. Written by Nancy Cheek and…
Worshipping Jesus
…aid of change. Change takes a long time and takes a lot of personal effort. I’ve learned that people need to understand why they are doing this, both philosophically and theologically. “Why is this necessary? Why is this change worth the effort?” Churches are hungry to go deeper, but need…
Envisioning a Global Network of Mission Structures
…Additionally, hundreds of large unreached people groups are still woefully under-engaged, leaving vast population-segments without any significant missionary activity. Since almost all of these same groups and population-segments were unreached and unengaged 30 years ago, it is safe to say that an entire generation of millions was left without any…
Are Muslims the New Nazis?
…aid, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also....You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate…
Tea With Hezbollah
…aid, “We are all family, and when the chair is free, you can have it. But now it is occupied.” (Chuckles) Now she is eleven. Her name is Fatima. TV is definitely affecting their dialogue and their actions. We have to be careful. Ted: Do you have any hobbies? Yamani:…
Loving Bin Laden
…aid “Follow me.” We did, and found ourselves in a room adorned with yellow-and-black Hezbollah flags and big, soft armchairs. And we waited. It was at this moment when it hit me what we were doing. We were meeting with an enemy of my country. Probably illegal – I think…
Communicating the Gospel from Within
…aid it in different ways before McGavran, but the basic approach when reaching a group that is unreached is: A believer needs to cross cultural barriers between where the church has taken root and where it hasn’t. As the gospel takes root and begins to grow, the new believers study…
We Can Do It!
…aid on that occasion. It was not long before I heard that this congregation caught the vision of using local resources to do God’s work. First, they began to pay their pastor a decent salary so that he could afford a better house. Second, they began a children’s ministry in…
Who Are These People?
…additional depth and nuance. My favorite essays include: Moonjang Lee on the future of global Christianity Andrew Walls on Christianity across 20 centuries (a masterful overview) J.N.K. Mugambi on Christianity in Africa (look out—this critique has bite!) Ogbu Kalu on Western Africa (full of color and verve) Mark Noll on…
The Incredible Progress of the Frontier Mission Movement
…Additionally, mission researcher David Barrett estimates there are probably 10 million Hindu devotees to Jesus (believers that are exclusively devoted to Jesus but who choose to remain within the Hindu cultural tradition to increase the impact of their witness). Missiologist Ralph Winter predicted that such believers will one day outnumber…
Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ
…aid suffering will result from this faithfulness. “You will be hated by all for my name’s sake” (Luke 21:17). “If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you” (John 15:20). I am saying that this suffering is part of God’s strategy for making known to the world who Christ is,…
Jesus is Worthy
…aid this, the memory of several of the believers in Erdenet saying something very similar, when we were saying our goodbyes a year and a half earlier, came rushing back to me. I had quickly forgotten their statements about our grief being a miracle because it made no sense to…
Does God Have a Purpose For Our Suffering?
…aid to him, “You’re going to be shot, but first I want you tortured so you will curse all that you hold sacred and holy.”1 That is exactly what Satan would like each of us to do when we encounter suffering. He wants us to give up on serving God…
Resources for Students and Student Mobilizers
…addresses the five biggest barriers that keep non-ministry majors from serving overseas on a mid-term mission of two years or longer among the least-reached. GoCorps volunteers are able to go from interested to overseas in just seven months. The application process will help them to find the best fit overseas…