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Peoples, Partnerships,and Unexpected Complexities
…additional detail is before me: 2.8% (or 701) affiliated Christians and church members (as of 2000), and the presence of a small number of “alien Christians” (of another culture resident among the Kakanda). Furthermore, I see an alphabet soup of acronyms for eight mission agencies reportedly working among the Kakanda,…
Passing on the Truth
…aid. They bring it with them to church each week, but never open it during the week. Since he worked for a ministry that produces audio cassettes, he had a bias. What he failed to mention was that when the same folks get an audio cassette of the Bible, they…
What Do We Need to Learn from Thai Folk Buddhists
…attitude of the cross-cultural worker to be? It is easy to go to either extreme. Many westerners come from a perspective that the realities of the spirit world are trivial, and either deny their existence or rationalize them away. Others focus on them too much. The Scripture gives guidelines that…
Missions at the Edge: Moving Past Cultural Christianity
…aid that the genuine need in China for caution, discretion and secure communication may be abused at times to avoid partnership, transparency and accountability. The Back to Jerusalem Movement may be a good case study of both the pluses and minuses. The idea of training thousands of Chinese missionaries to…
Why Meetings of Mission Leaders?
…ategic working relationships that most of the secular business world wouldn’t have even dreamed of before “partnership” became a cool business strategy. It wasn’t perfect. I’m sure there were things going on behind the scenes I didn’t know about, but these events helped shape me and my view of agencies…
Editorial Comment
…aided evolution. As the editor of the International Journal of Frontier Missions, I am running a brief spiritual testimony by him in the Oct.-Dec. issue of IJFM. In that issue we also have three articles by other Evangelicals who want earnestly to reduce the blood being spilled by crusaders for…
Editorial Comment
…aid than done, of course. Point Two is that unknowingly the missionary quite often goes carrying with him preconceived ideas about what “a church” looks like. It is not necessary to impose an American-style church. (By this I refer to the practice of collecting together fragments of extended families and…
Can a Distracted Church Reach Muslims?
…aid or sang “God Bless America” in recent months and years, we realized it is a prayer and that we prayed it for other nations—like Iraq and Afghanistan. I also pray that the Church in America can continue to powerfully contribute to the advance of God’s Kingdom in the future.…
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
…aid with a grin, “Isn’t it evident from my nose?” He chuckled and glanced back out front just in time to cut off a bus and barely miss a push cart. The natives of Anchovy Province are famously proud of their Roman noses, and mine, though not as noble as…
Is This What the World Needs Now? A Response to TIME
…addressed more pointedly the laws, oppression, and social climate that force such witness “underground” and create intolerant societies. Which is the greater threat to peace—compassionate Christian work and witness in the name of Jesus, or the perpetuation of a social system that violates universal standards of human rights? Back to…
UP (India)Transformation Movement
…ate: with multiplying, reproducing, disciple-making house churches through a consortium of organizations and networks committed to the Great Commission. U.P. is India’s largest state with 174 million people (including Uttranchal). If U.P. was a separate country it would be the fifth largest nation in the world. The center of political…
Barriers to Missions 101
…aid there was no way her adult son was going to Russia. Perhaps we will not see the breakthroughs we pray about until there is a releasing of young people by their families and churches at new levels. The Student Volunteer Movement really started by the prayers of moms at…
The World Inquiry
…add his own. The goal of the World Inquiry is to get Christian leaders together in hundreds of cities around the world and to listen to what God is saying through the leaders of His Church. Thus far over 5,000 Christian leaders in 600 cities in 66 countries have participated.…
Transformation and Leadership
…aid Padilla, “understands that all spheres of life are ‘missionary fields’ and is constantly seeking for ways to affirm the sovereignty of Christ over all of them.” This missiological perspective was affirmed not only in the preliminary findings from World Inquiry surveys but in each of the five World Inquiry…
Editorial Comment
…ate who loves Bible studies but murders his opponents? When John the Baptist wondered what Jesus was up to, Jesus sent word back, “The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear,” etc. But this was apparently not what John was looking for.…
International Coalition Steering Committee Report
…address the vision are in short supply in view of mission leaders. The new paradigms that help us interpret and organize our strategies for the future have not become clear. Mid-course findings point to fresh paradigms as we all anticipate the imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
An Introduction to a Call That Didn’t Work
…aid it ought to be done by the year 1900, and waved for approval from the crowd. The roar of response was so great he appointed a committee of six which worked for three days to produce a remarkable document, “An Appeal to Disciples Everywhere.” One of the signers, J.…
Presenting Ourselves to the World
…aid that if you prayed the prayer he led, then Christ had taken up residence in your life. Is that really true or is it modern Christian jargon? When we get to heaven, does God look back at what we said in our lives and if He sees the right…
Editorial Comment
…addressed by church leaders to a church audience, not by mission leaders to a mission leaders audience. What was wrong with that? Was not Moody even at that date the most prominent and influential evangelist/revivalist of American history? And what more auspicious springboard could there have been than the famous…
How Did The Edinburgh 1980 Conference Come Into Being?
…aid down and specific goals and objectives have been developed. An elaborate set of committees has been defined, and different national and regional committees are forming and stepping forward to shoulder the various roles. As might have been expected, the first initiative outside the United States was British, but the…