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Raising Up Hope and Laborers for the Kingdom
…aid, there is “glory in the impossible.” Yes, we want to meet students where they are in their mission vision and understanding, but keep frontier mission and unreached peoples as their focus. In light of the Great Commission, we must invite them into a task commitment, not just a time…
Boots on the Ground
…adding several key staffers and have already seen God do some amazing things. While Arkansas and Alabama staff are just getting established, the Iowa and Oregon ministries are hitting their strides: packed-out Perspectives courses in various college towns, lots of small group xplore studies launched (designed to help the young…
Perspectives & College Students
…aid, as he crafted and launched the Summer Institute of International Studies (the original name of Perspectives). In the early 1980s Perspectives coordinators were encouraged to get churches involved by hosting classes. This produced a strong shift in the demographics of Perspectives participants towards laypeople. Now, 25 years later, only…
A Compelling, Good-sized Vision
…aid in that editorial from July-August 2008, “This exciting book lays out irrefutably the fact that today’s teenagers are what-they-are because society does not expect (even allow) much from them. This is not just a theory. An enormous response to their web site, www.TheRebelution.com, and their face-to-face conferences literally all…
In Pursuit of Effective Models of Mission
…aid his salary, not counting on funds from America. Perhaps you are from another country and you can think of other “issues” that might impact your mission workers. Feel free to share those with us.
Valley of Vision
…aid, “I can’t think of a more urgent need than enabling young people to understand their faith and preparing them to defend it against the onslaught of secular thought they encounter in their schools and in popular culture.” What is causing such a meltdown in our youth? Why have they…
Stepping Back to Move Forward
…aid make disciples of all the nations, so we know how far we are to do this. There are three processes in making disciples. There’s the going out (“go”)—that’s the initial reaching others aspect. There’s the bringing in (“baptizing”), which is initiation of new converts as they identify with the…
The Power of a Biblical Worldview
…aid “But I am fascinated by Jesus and compelled to follow Him.” “Oh yeah?” the man replied, his curiosity piqued. “From what I understand,” I said, “Jesus, like you, was more concerned about what was happening inside a person—in their spirit—than what religious forms they followed on the outside.” At…
Helping Students “Get It”
…aid of, the challenging questions about God, Jesus, the Bible, morality or truth. Unfortunately, too many adults dread the moment that a student asks them a tough faith question they cannot answer. This avoidance, of course, does not remove the question. It merely delays the question until the student is…
Getting It Done
…aid, “There are now 50,000 of us here in Saudi who are followers of Isa al masih” (Jesus Christ). Another man called and said, “We are a thousand Muslims here in Europe who would like to know how we could become followers of Jesus.” Fourthly is the rise of new…
What Assumptions Are Driving What You Do?
…ate,” a destiny over which they have no control. Their assumption leads them to believe that is the way life is and that it will never change. Both of these forms of fatalism can lead to unhealthy long-term dependency. Several years ago I learned about a group of native North…
Editorial Comment
…aid in Matt. 28:19, “Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations.” This verse has been widely misunderstood only to mean evangelizing individuals in countries. In the Greek it is calling us to “disciple the nations.” The word translated “nations” is ethne from which we get the term ethnic group…
Seeking Closure
…address this. . . . We can’t repeat the mistakes of the past. They will only be amplified by the fact that so many more people will be making them! Are we going to plant a hundred different denominations in Turkey, for example, each with their respective ties to groups…
Discipling All Peoples
…aid for this observation. Today, over 30% of humanity consider themselves to be Christians. A majority of the world’s countries are a majority Christian. But is the world a better place as a result? Getting Back to the Bible What does the Great Commission command us to do among the…
A Fundamental Change Needed in Missions Education
…ater, gained the highest State distinction, “Full Institutional Approval.” Dr. Winter designed WCIU as a “laboratory university,” the goal of which was not to attract as many students to itself as possible, but to hammer out the most flexible graduate programs that would serve the mission community, and to demonstrate…
Family Tributes
…aid. Thirty-five years later, only 8,000 unreached people groups are left. Not too bad. He taught me so much more: perseverance and grace in the face of opposition or mockers; seeing beyond the obvious problem to the root issues; the importance of encouraging everyone to seek the best they can…
Celebrating the Work of God Through the Life of an Innovator
…attached list of some of the other organizations he had a part in starting or assisted in some way. Funding the Facilities Characteristically, Ralph tackled the funding of an $11 million campus ($15 million including the housing “endowment”) and housing with a different twist. He believed that he needed to…
The U.S. Center for World Mission
…aid many years ago remains true, “We are not in the sunset of missions, but the sunrise.” There is still much work to be done in the harvest fields of the world, in prayer, in learning, in engaging the peoples of the earth. Our prayer is that God would continually…
Insight in an Age Devoid of Discernment
…aid, “OK! It badly needs to be done. So you do it! You have my full support. Take the WCF curriculum and cut it down to one year’s worth of college-level work. Focus on the things that college students need to understand to intelligently and confidently defend their faith in…
The Problem Solver
…attacked, but World Christian Foundations (WCF) and INSIGHT are the main ways we have done it. We also have conceived the need for supplementary booklets for specific secular texts as another way of dealing with this problem. Ph.D. Foundation Curriculum Date Conceived: 1990 The Problem: The need for a solid…