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Is God to Blame?
…aid. “I used to be a fired-up Christian who poured herself into her faith, but now I feel nothing toward God and I’m always depressed. I used to run marathons, but now I’m a blimp. My husband and I used to be so close,” Melanie informed me, “but now we’re…
The Pursuit of Knowledge and Truth
…aid: “. . . this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” Who is Jesus Christ? The apostle Paul explains in Colossians 2:3 that the Lord Jesus is the one “in whom are hidden all the treasures of…
Why Are they Walking Away?
…ates of Hell, we must understand why we are losing so many once “faithful believers” to doubt, unbelief and oftentimes outright defiance and anger towards the God and faith they once held dear. There is not one single answer to this problem but we must understand the causes that destroy…
Editorial Comment
…Additions? The second book, quite the opposite, is co-authored by George Barna and Frank Viola, Pagan Christianity. Barna has now apparently bought into the thesis that we must flee all the many new ways Christians have devised in living out the Gospel down through history. Were choirs, keyboards and guitars…
Our Amazing God
…aid to do this! People give money so I can fly around the world and network with believers from all over the globe.” Of course, I don’t get paid much, and like most missionaries on our USCWM staff, we trust in the Lord to develop the team of churches and…
The IFMA Has not Passed Away
…add to that, business as mission and the ever expanding short-term mission movement. In short, the mission enterprise in North America is now derived from multiple sources. Our association needed to accommodate these realities if we were to remain relevant in this current mission environment. Another consideration had to do…
My African Experience
…aid something like the following: “You visited nine cities in three weeks and spoke to only two African church leaders. I doubt if you have ever seen people in rural parts of Africa.” If that is the perception of some of my involvement in Africa, I felt I should let…
Join Mission Frontiers in Celebrating Our 30th Year
…ate. At Mission Frontiers we are celebrating our 30th year of publication. Since 1979 we have been calling the global Body of Christ to declare God’s glory within all the peoples of the earth. During 2008 you will see us mark this memorable milestone as we recall our accomplishments and…
International Journal of Frontier Missiology
…ated, even controversial issues in mission today, often from multiple viewpoints. But don’t just take our word for it, listen to the Evangelical Missions Quarterly: There has been strong debate over how far we can go in contextualizing ministry before it becomes syncretism. Much of that debate has played out…
What is Insight?
…adding knowledge of God’s purposes to students’ zeal. INSIGHT fills a gap for students interested in serving globally to explore mission and gain foundational knowledge with a one-year, cost-effective commitment, and helps churches and mission agencies provide Bible and mission training in-house to their students and missionary candidates. For those familiar with…
Find Your Role in Mobilization
…ated with this person named Jesus and, as a result, large numbers of students were believing and receiving Him as their Savior. I was told I could move my family into an on-campus high rise for just $75 a month, obtain visas as long as it took me to learn…
Response to Ralph Winter
…aid before: word and deed belong together. Evangelism and social action are not the same thing, but they belong inseparably together in the mission of faithful Christians. This essay is both a significant measure of how much progress the evangelical world has made in embracing holistic mission and a clarion…
Editorial Comment
…ated to things that can help you as you build a truly Christian life. Curiously, the most important key to the growth of God-consciousness—of integrity of heart—is what happens daily. “Nothing will ever dominate your life that does not occur daily!” That is why the first thing to which we…
Disruptive Missiology Part 3
…aid in discussions with non-believers we need to choose carefully. In the extreme, if we launch into modes of baptism or the timing of the return of Christ we might not get through. When I started high school, our family began going to a new church, which consistently taught the…
An Example from West Africa
…aid that the church of which he is a part decided to launch a campaign to evangelize a number of villages in an area that they identified as needing a Gospel witness. They knew the cost would be high, so they drew up a budget. The amount they felt would…
Mission Agencies
…aid the foundation over the past half century. Their sweat, blood and tears are a big part of the shoulders upon which we stand today. Outreach and cross cultural evangelism has had many new faces that have adapted and changed over the years. The freedom of modern day transportation and…
Making God the Hero-King of the Great Commission Company
…aid, “Why should I fear you, I don’t fear the demons.” They let her go. In Great Commission Companies (2003), Steve Rundle and I defined a Great Commission company as, a socially responsible, income-producing business, managed by Kingdom Professionals, created for the specific purpose of glorifying God and promoting the…
Tribute to Bruce Kennedy
…aid, “Kennedy didn’t separate his faith from his professional, civic or personal life. His spirituality and the rest of his life were integrated, not compartmentalized. He was open about his faith, not forcing it on others, but was bold enough that people knew what – or more precisely, Who –…
I Met Two Kinds of People in Africa
…aid he had twenty-three pastors in his care with churches throughout the Nairobi area. His business card also had something on it about a “rehabilitation center.” When I asked about that, he said that their churches minister to needy people in the poorer areas of Nairobi. He said, “You know,…
Social Action & Evangelism
…aid, “the people see the foreigners well – but all the foreigners can fix is their teeth.” I wondered what that had to do with me. “But you teaching us how to fix teeth, the people will see us well, and then we will tell them how Waengongi (the Creator)…