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How the World Inquiry Began!
…ately be on informing The Question, rather than seeking to provide answers. In the process I observed that certain catalytic impulses of world evangelization are constant, including a God-given purpose, renewal as a means, conferences leading to structures and human leaders as agents. The study of catalytic antecedents of today’s…
Missionary Trainers Take the Next Step
…ate the latest programs and practices in effective missionary training. The purpose of the NEXT STEP partnership is to provide a forum for partner organizations to explore and develop ways for improved cooperative training efforts. Its vision statement seeks to inspire kingdom cooperation: The Next Step Partnership envisions a quality…
Patterson’s Principles
…ates that. Start Right Out With Loving Obedience to Jesus’ Basic Commands The aim for each community is to have a group of believers in Christ who are committed to His commands. Other types of learning are fruitful only if this principle is lived out as a foundation for leaders…
Patterson’s Principles
…ates that. Start Right Out With Loving Obedience to Jesus’ Basic Commands The aim for each community is to have a group of believers in Christ who are committed to His commands. Other types of learning are fruitful only if this principle is lived out as a foundation for leaders…
Pitfalls of Student Selection in Leadership Training in Russia
…aid “job” of studying the Bible (since many schools paid stipends). Others were looking at the program as a stepping stone to further study or work in the West (from which they had no intention to return to Russia). Most of the new churches and their connected organizations had paid…
What’s Wrong with 4,000 Pastoral Training Schools Worldwide?
…additional materials to round out and perhaps correct the picture. Furthermore, they cannot effectively study issues in secular books and only later find out the true picture. If this is the plight of those in the pew, it is all the more true of those who are diverted into alternative…
Christian Universities as a Mission Strategy
…addressed, Christian liberal arts education will indeed become a luxury item, serving the personal interests of people in the two-thirds world without serving the church. (1) The external threat. On several occasions, reaction to conversions at Duff’s school almost torpedoed the new institution. The same thing happened at other Protestant…
The New Evangelical Universities
…additional universities are springing up, such as Africa Nazarene University (f. 1993), which now enrolls 490 students from 14 nations; and Hope Africa University (f. 2000), a fledgling Free Methodist school that started in an abandoned dance hall with 27 students. …The emergence of new evangelical universities outside of the…
A Glorious Pursuit
…aid Barney Ford. The experience of energizing worship needs to be our daily staple and sustenance. Worship is ultimately a world-sized affair. Most students, no matter how big their church, have never been in synchronous, vibrant, amplified, contemporary praise with thousands of other ecstatic worshipers. To experience God in that…
Editorial Comment
…ate and public schools in the USA.You might wonder if I am exaggerating in order to compete with the angry tensions in the USA today—the problems of Iraq and North Korea, the current tragedy of the burning up of the Columbia. Briefly on just those two things.Iraq: the 300,000 Christians…
The Next Christendom by Philip Jenkins
…aid out before us, and Christians are in some respects paralyzed in digesting limitations in their theological inheritance. Let’s be realistic. In the southeast of this country between 1530 and 1780 one hundred and fifty mission stations grew up and collapsed for one primary reason: the hundreds of thousands of…
Singapore ‘02
…additional complications of current global events, the logistics are daunting— trying to keep from tripping over each other (on the one hand) or making sure that a particular people group isn’t neglected (on the other). Some might wonder, “Do we need to solve this problem?” Mission leaders have noted that…
Singapore ‘02
…aid, “Some people see things as they are and ask why. And some people see things that never were and ask why not.” The history of missions has been shaped more often by people who asked the “why nots” than by those who asked the “whys.” These are men and…
Missions Education—Where To Begin?
…ate will, nevertheless, PRAY. Be specific and rejoice in the answers. Survey and Record What is already going on in your school or church missions efforts? Investigate matters relating to budget and expenditures, teaching from the pulpit and in classes, short-term trips your church endorses, agencies that have support on…
Editorial Comment
…aid at Singapore ‘02 My personal contribution at the meeting was almost counter to the overall theme. What I said may tend to push closure off further. I presented a paper entitled “From Mission to Evangelism to Mission.” That may sound like the familiar sequence of mission stages in which…
Music, Millenials, and Mission Mobilization
…ate 1970s onward and comprising a fourth of America’s population, responds to authenticity and enthusiasm. While boring sermons or shallow Christianity may turn youth away in disgust, a singer with a guitar and a burning passion for Jesus can shake them to the core. Has the story of God’s kingdom…
Reviewing Our Concepts and Definitions
…additional criteria to re.ne their mobilization efforts, but they were not changing the 1982 de.nitions so much as clarifying how a group got on (or off ) their list of unreached peoples. (They emphasized groups less than 2% Evangelical or with less than 5% Christian adherents.) To attempt to bring…
‘Table 71’ Creates Most Significant Missiological Advance since 1974
…addition, projects in India and China in aggregate envision more millions of churches. In about an eight-year period beginning in 1992 the national Church in 14 Latin America nations planted 87,500 new churches and Church leaders of the whole region in 1998 set a goal of 500,000 new churches by…
Letters
…ates and cast .re in the hearts of college students, we need to have “more students who have a heart for the world begin to exhort and challenge their fellow students on these issues.” We are constantly brainstorming how we can raise up more Campus Mobilizers, college students who are…
Servant’s Love
…aid, “Do you understand what I have done for you? You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord’ and do so correctly, for that is what I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet…” (John 13:12b-14a) How would the average CEO or President finish that sentence? How…