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The Legacy of Love in China
…aid the foundation for the medical care and educational system that China enjoys today. The incredible growth of the church in China is also a testimony to the faithfulness and effectiveness of these early pioneers of the faith. An entry in Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia says, “Medical missions in China…
Pray for Them
…aid to bring up spiritual things. Perhaps one reason is because we haven’t seen fruit from the way we’ve tried. Carl, whom I mentioned above, was encouraged to write a book that includes a number of stories describing situations where he and others engage with Muslims, most often in the…
Raising Local Resources
…aid before, this does not mean that outside resources are not needed, given the vast amount of human need we see in our world. What becomes clear, however, is that the indiscriminate infusion of outside resources can so easily cripple or destroy local creativity, which is sometimes fragile at best.…
Ralph Winter Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
…addition to the USCWM, Winter was a central figure in founding the William Carey Library Publishers, William Carey International University and the course, Perspectives on the World Christian Movement. Prior to founding the USCWM, Winter served as a missionary to a Mayan tribal group in Guatemala for ten years. Then…
The Missing Father
…aid, ‘Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name.’….We too often are not seeing the Father through Christ. We stop with Christ….Often it seems when Christians talk with Muslims they put Jesus in the place of God the Father. Yet, we read that Jesus continually focuses us on…
How To Best Help China
…aid of the wording in the Gospel of Matthew: “make disciples of all nations, baptizing them … teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.” … the emphasis was not on the growth of the Christian community and still less upon the conversion and transformation of all China.…
China
…aid, “Everything you’ve ever heard about China is probably true somewhere in China.” If you only look at these big numbers, you could think that it is the U.S. that has a greater need. We realize that many of these 235 million Christians in “Christian” America don’t really follow Christ…
Editorial Comment
…aid he would be a Zoroastrian if he were not a Christian. This explains why Cyrus was friendly to the Jewish captives. And, it is a good bit of the reason why Iranians are Shiites and not Sunnis. Now, the Tangent A little book fell into my hands this past…
The Long March Forward
…addition to the empire. Here they learned to contextualize their faith to a much greater degree, and were taught by their leaders that the “civil law of the government is as valid for the Jews as their own law.” As a result they were willing to adopt regulations regarding the…
Today’s Iranian Revolution
…aid that even if 10 million Bibles were available today in Iran, they would not be enough. One lady, who has personally distributed 20,000 Bibles, says never once did anyone turn her down. Rather, the vast majority received it as the greatest treasure they had ever been given. Rebirth of…
How Much are we Blessing ALL the Peoples?
…ates at software or global problem solving? Ultimately God is sovereign, and yet he chooses to work through us. He tells us to pray. Given the focus of this issue, I thought of two questions: How do Christians view Muslims now? In particular, what more could be done now to…
Raising Local Resources
…add lack of motivation, loss of dignity and broken human relationships to the list of contributing factors. Notice the italicized words in the previous paragraph. Each one has both the origin and solution in the realm of the spiritual. My first observation is that unless those spiritual issues are addressed,…
Wheelchairs from Jesus
…aid, “Jesus is the one who brought these wheelchairs here. If you want to clean the name of Jesus off of them, Jesus might come back and take these away from us. Jesus is mentioned in the Qur’an and no one has cleaned his name out of the Qur’an.” He…
A Movement to Jesus within Islam
…aid that it was the will of God that Jesus the Messiah should suffer death on the cross to save mankind, and that God raised him back to life. God exalted Jesus to sit at his own right hand as Lord and Savior of the world. Brother Jacob said that…
“Great is Thy Faithfulness”
…aid in his heart that there is no God! You are a smart man, James, but you are not smarter than God. Humble yourself under his mighty hand! . . . I will count it a privilege and an act of friendship to help you back when you are ready.…
When the Church Staggers, Stalls, and Sits Down (In the Middle of a War!)
…aid softly, “Yes, but I’m not jumping up and down about it.” Why couldn’t she have simply said, “I am not your judge. All I want for you (as well as for me) is to know God better, the Bible better, and Jesus better. God is the only judge of…
Editorial Comment
…aid that some pastors (and their churches) are like ticket salesmen, others, magicians, still others coaches. Not many are military officers fighting a war. Of course, a congregation of people not fighting a war outside the church may find themselves fighting a war inside the church. But that is a…
Learning From the Global Family of God
…ates was “Sam.” Sam and I had both been to southeast Asia during a short term a few years before. He sensed God’s call to return, so he was on his way to China as a professional and he has been there (or near there) pretty much since. After years…
Raising Local Resources
…ate help come?” For the past several days I have been participating in a conference of rural development specialists who work in some of the most needy parts of Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. It has been inspiring to hear story after story about the success they are having…
Frontiers
…aid “Great, I have a heart for Sudan.” Rick frowned, “Not Sudan, the 30 million Sundanese in Indonesia.” “Oh, right.” Then John announced that he was going to China. “This is a mission to Muslims.” I responded. “Yeah, we’re going to the Muslims in China!” The parade of young people…