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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…
Strategic Giving
…Attitude Toward Giving Before we move into an analysis of and criteria for strategic giving, let us offer some broad strokes of our perspective on what constitutes giving that is strategic. The U.S. Center for World Mission and Mission Frontiers have been built on a core premise that the priority…
News
…aid. Participants included representatives from a range of ministries, including Wycliffe, SIM, USCWM, YWAM, Africa Christian Fellowship-USA, the Center for Urban Theological Studies, Network, Carver International Missions, South Africa Inland Missions, National Black Evangelical Association and Campus Crusade. They were asked to take part in a “nuts and bolts” type…
Passing the Baton
…ate global plans being created and pursued to reach the world by the year 2000, asking; “What is He trying to say to you and me through these happenings around us today.” This question became a burden for an answer in Dr. Wang’s heart. Less than two years later in…
Final Statements of the AD2000 Leadership
…aid and reported upon over the brief tenure of this Movement, with great praises and thanks to God for His manifold blessings both seen and unseen! Seeking to be brief, my praises and thanks are three-fold: For the early acceptance and rapidly growing fellowship of leaders towards a church for…
Giving in Kenya
…addition, each contributor was given an official receipt for their tithes and offerings. The livestock and agricultural produce that were received were then sold on the next market day which happened to be each Tuesday. They acquired a stall and an area on the market grounds from which to sell…
Some Things Remain the Same
…add-on or an enjoyable preliminary, but rather it is given an astounding importance by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, whose ministry it really is! And this verse also shows us that Jesus Christ is the leader of our worship. (Hebrews 8:2 describes as the “minister,” in Greek the “liturgist” or…
Every Team Needs One
…aid, “The mother of all paradigms.” Worship expresses the reason for our redemption. In Exodus, we are told why God went to all the trouble to free his people from bondage. “Let my people go… so that they may worship me” (Ex. 9:1). Worship will be either central to the…
The Vaglas Sing A Song from the Heart
…aid Pastor Phillip, “I really hear God’s words in these songs.” So will many other Vaglas through the two cassettes of Scripture songs and readings recorded that week in an improvised studio at the church. Late that evening, we met outside to eat pounded yam by the light of stars.…
What Happened When Grandma Danced
…ately 20 million people known as Isaan. With a strong Lao heritage the majority of these people carry cultural traditions that distinguish them from the Central Thai. Their language (Lao/Isaan) is different. They eat glutinous rice with their fingers as their staple diet. They have a unique musical heritage that…
Reclaiming the Bhajan
…aid that the by Indian poets and Indian musicians. an Indian worship format. Histori-modern, English-speaking, high class, Foreigners can help especially with cally, they are taken from Hindu secular, Hindu person may be more the packaging because of their access devotional practice, but there is open to spiritual things through…
Two Communication Principles God Uses With Song
…ate their own different musical styles, so why would He want you to sing in someone else’s musical style? He is free to use the music of a people so that they may understand His life-saving message of salvation. He extends that same freedom to us. Beyond One Style God…
Behind the Scenes
…ately, the common practice of the past of simply translating Western hymns like Amazing Grace into the local language still goes on today. This can no longer be the accepted standard practice in church planting if an indigenous and naturally reproducing Gospel within every people is our goal. It is…
Editorial Comment
…aid. But, in her weakness she could not think of anything she had done wrong. And, anyway, why such a violent punishment? Another visitor is an ebullient, cheerful woman. She arrives with flowers and flowery words to cheer. She insists on changing the subject every time Claudia refers to her…
Spiritual Discernment
…attacking one problem at a time in missions. We've always got ten different things that we're trying to deal with. That's why we need a lot more leadership training. We need gifted leaders who will know how to delegate, serve and make things happen. I think that students need to…
Worship Becoming Mission: Urbana 2000
…aid, "You know what it means to be a missionary? You catch God's character of pre-loving, and you begin to love a people you don't even know." For Fong, the message of adoption is a particularly meaningful one: After several years of trying to bear or adopt a child, he…
Resources to help you find your place in the journey
…aid, reading aloud "Dead End Trail: Short Term Inoculation." After reading the back of the map it began to dawn on me that I can't let that trip years ago pacify my obedience to God by thinking I had done my duty and could get on with my life. I…
Doing What I Was Made For
…ate matter--the heart's allegiance and love for Christ clearly seen and talked of in unbashful terms. Moyra has that kind of allegiance. And it's evident here. December 21, 2000 Yesterday was our last ULT [Urbana Leadership Team] meeting--everyone dragging in with TO DO lists out the door, a bit of…
Urbana 2000
…ads us. pastor of Evergreen Baptist Church of Los Angeles in Rosemead, California,. Excerpted from several talks at Urbana 2000.
Editorial Comment
…aid back then would, in today's currency, be far more than we pay for books. In regard to books, then: Last time I reviewed very briefly a book which, for missionaries (I failed to say) could be a helpful review of time-tested thinking in the mission agency world. I was…