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Learning to Advance the Kingdom
…aid hello to each other, and it wasn’t long before this man’s eyes brightened and he sat up in his seat. I was the first Christian he had ever met, which also made me the first non-Muslim he had the chance to witness to in his life. I could see…
Are We Trifling With Missions?
…aid that the seeds of a great apostasy are in the Church of God today, that in the midst of this century and its closing decade it should even be questioned whether we could evangelize the world in our generation, when the luxuries alone that crowd our homes, that cover…
Why We Buy Things We Don’t Need
…aid your earnings. Danziger spent the past 20 years researching why Americans spend as we do. We purchase kitchen gadgets, home textiles, computer software, candles and aromatherapy products, gardening items and a host of other discretionary products. In fact, we fork out about 30 percent of our income for stuff…
Introducing the Global Network of Mission Structures
…addition, Packiam is Director of the Malaysian Centre for Global Mission (a missions training center), a director of Antioch Missions – Chinese Church Support Ministries, and Senior Minister of The Dwelling Place – a Ministry Centre (church) he pioneered and planted, with his wife, ten years ago. Amsterdam delegates noted,…
Letters to the Editor
…addition, we must consider the facetiousness that Christian universities and colleges engage in. They ask students to sign “Conduct Contracts” that require students to abstain from premarital sex, alcohol, pornography, tobacco, ungodly behavior, etc. Meanwhile, these institutions saddle these same students with debts that hinder the students from following the…
Walking In Their Shoes
…aid that the frontiers are frontiers because they are the hardest to reach. We at the USCWM have contended that this is not necessarily because unreached peoples are spiritually resistant, but often because we haven’t walked in their shoes long enough or well enough. The more distant – culturally, socially…
Church-Based Missionaries
…add to the number within the long-standing traditions, such as the Churches of Christ and the Plymouth Brethren, which have all along emphasized the idea of missionaries being under the authority and support of only one congregation. The same emphasis is common, too, in the case of thousands of new…
A Case Study in Partnership
…ated our approach to ministry and our theological distinctives. Such an agency might be willing to place our people together in teams, perhaps with missionaries from other churches who feel compatible with our approach. Also, we felt that if we were willing to commit a good number of people to…
Churches Sending Teams
…ate consequences are emerging from many of these efforts – one foreseen by the late Dr. Donald McGavran, the other by Dr. Ralph Winter. Before churches send a veritable “children’s crusade”1 of well-meaning but ineffective volunteers to the ends of the earth, they would be wise to keep in mind…
Seeking Initiation and Consolidation Among All Nations
…attitude of “we don’t need anybody else” but an attitude of humility and a heart to walk in spiritual unity with the rest of the Church – to honor and learn from, or together with, the rest of the Body. The spiritual pride that produces the “lone-ranger” mentality will not…
Apostolic Organizational Structures
…aid, “We really want to be proactive when it comes to our mission obedience, but we don’t want to reinvent the wheel. How can we work with mission organizations so both of us benefit?” Awesome questions! Perhaps different terminology would be helpful as we consider these issues. Sometimes new words…
Are Your Dreams Strategic?
…aid. Beyond “repent” and “believe” there are no simple formulas – certainly none that produce automatic results. Perhaps our culture is so bent on efficiency that we’ve honed the message to “steps to get right” rather than “a relationship worth seeking” – like the pearl of great price. Then we…
“The Bridge of Satan Has Been Broken!”
…ated into their language during that season – Bench Christians grew in number and emerged from the crucible seasoned and committed to Jesus. After they experienced God’s care and sustaining presence during hardship, the Bench Christians became relentless evangelists, and some became cross-cultural missionaries. They headed out to share the…
News & Notes
…atest (October-December 2004) issue of the International Journal of Frontier Missions (IJFM) features presentations from the 2004 annual meeting of the International Society for Frontier Missiology (ISFM). Topics include: “Underground Church Movements: The Surprising Role of Women’s Networks” (Rebecca Lewis); “Church-Planting Movements vs. Insider Movements” (David Garrison); “The Key to…
Editorial Comment
…auditoriums and 15 identical services a week. But the secret was that behind all this once-a-week celebration were 52,000 (!) neighborhood fellowships mainly based on extended families. The house church phenomenon could be revolutionary. It just may be that the most valuable gift missions can give back to the American…
From Refrigerator Magnets to Church Plants
…ates a good model for “adopting an unreached people,” namely, for one or more congregations to partner with a mission agency on behalf of that people. Related resources can be found at www.uscwm.org. (Click on “Adopt-a-People.”) Nothing is too simple for God to use, or too complex for Him to…
Priority Peoples: a Customized Approach
…addition of new peoples to the WCD in the past three years and, second, the updating of the World Christian Database from mid-2000 to mid-2005 estimates. But the innovation we introduce here results from the advent of the online version of the World Christian Database, which contains 100 variables related…
Editorial Comment
…aid negatively about the Body of Christ being split up, the Bible nevertheless portrays the different parts of the Body, each of which is performing a different function. That is why, once a missionary gets things going in a people group, he or she must watch carefully for invisible barriers…
Learning From a Parable (Part 2)
…aid that would be impossible. “Their culture,” he told me, “is too diverse. Why, in New York City alone there’s probably 30 or more people groups. There are Spanish, Blacks, Italians, Polish, Greeks, and a score of others, most of which even have several sub-groups within themselves. Even if you…
How to Kill a Church- Planting Movement
…aid, “You travel over land and sea to win a single convert and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.”2 Adding to the Bible’s requirements for Christian life resurrects the folly of the Pharisees. There are many ways to yoke…