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Partners In The Gospel
…aid, “No.” They go west to Troas. In a night vision, Paul hears a man from Macedonia calling. Doctor Luke joins the team there. He continues to write, Immediately we endeavored to go.... The “Macedonia man” turned out to be a merchant woman by the name of Lydia! She trusts…
In Serious Pursuit of Movements
…aid for it, even when I’m traveling and don’t have time, I get out and do my training run. I’m in serious pursuit of my goal…to run the race well and finish it. There have been a few times when I thought, “I’ll just start training, but sign up…
Obedience to God’s Word Overcomes Systemic Prejudice
…aid? Through their actions. After declaring they wanted to be “in Jesus,” the leaders did something seldom seen in their context. They apologized. In front of each other, without attempting to save face or defend themselves, they admitted: “We are sorry; we were wrong” both to Sanjay and to their…
Longing for the Golden City
…aid in natural disasters and ethnic conflict zones. After cyclone Nargis washed away 140,000 people in May 2008, the movement crossed cultural barriers and spread into the majority people group numbering sixty million Buddhists. Eight barriers to Buddhists receiving Christ12 While many cross-cultural workers have developed various methods for sharing…
Celebrating the Gift of George Patterson
…aid, “Oh and by the way we are not the ones who are going to complete the Great Commission. I was planning to go to Mongolia at that time and was out of my seat in a shot exclaiming, “What do you mean we’re not the ones who are going…
Toward a Biblical Missiology of Mobilization
…aid to be founded on the self-revelation of God.”6 There is no God besides Him. He alone is Father, Creator of all things and for whom we live (1 Cor. 8:5-6). If there is one God, then He is God of all peoples. He desires every believer to recognize the…
Apostolic Imagination: Recovering a Biblical Vision for Mission
…attack not only from without but also from within its own ranks.” The present “crisis” was just one of many throughout Church history that created a need for a new paradigm of mission.1 Three decades following the publication of Bosch’s magnum opus, evangelicals remain in a state of transition and…
How to Stop the Bad Ideas That Plague Us
…attacks occur every minute of every day. The battle we’re in is a battle of ideas. To be spiritually and mentally strong, we need a healthy worldview that inoculates us against the bad ideas we pick up from the culture around us. In my new book, The Secret Battle…
How Possible Is It to Multiply Rapidly and Still Make Healthy Disciples?
…aid in the early chapters of this book. In chapter one of Emotionally Healthy Discipleship, Scazzero writes about four key failures in discipleship. 1. We tolerate emotional immaturity. 2. We emphasize doing for God over being with God. 3. We ignore the treasures of church history. 4. We define success…
‘Little Drops, Mighty Ocean’: An African Case Study in Partnership
…attacks that come from supporting missions if done alone. Some advantages of the chapter model are: Provides a platform for the involvement of every Christian to pragmatically participate in the Great Commission, irrespective of status and class. Denominational barriers are broken as chapter members are made up of Christians from…
Is This China’s Final Solution for the Uyghurs?
…attacks on police stations. Starting in the 2010s, the Chinese government became increasingly cruel in their treatment of the Uyghurs. With a population of about 12 million, about one million Uyghur men and some women have been sent to detention camps, which the Chinese government has given the euphemism “re-education…
Toward the Edges: Innovation in a Multi-cultural Setting
…aid above that our process resulted in specific new efforts to reach some Unreached People Groups, but not the one I had assumed or suggested. However, just asking the questions, gathering the data and experimenting in other peoples has resulted in our trial people group landing on the radar of…
Good Intentions Are Not Always Good Enough
…addiction to nicotine and alcohol has often had dramatic economic effects. High in the mountains in Guatemala, the town of Almalonga was widely known for its high income from vegetable production and its pervasive alcoholism. All of its relatively high income was squandered on liquor. When faith in Jesus Christ…
Is There a Cure for Unhealthy Dependency?
…aid they did not have any shipping containers, the people said, “What kind of missionaries are you with no shipping containers?” Clearly the people were thinking about what they might get when servants of the Lord arrived from the outside. What is wrong with the spread of the gospel in…
“Insider” Movements: How Do You Know if You Have One?
…attitudes toward women and children, hearts for others to know Jesus, hearts to know Jesus ourselves and on and on. So, how do we know? Basically, we talk about these things. We talk about them personally, in our own lives, not just in the movement as an “other” thing. We…
The Next Evolution Of Movement - Catalyst Phased Equipping
…aid in training their catalysts. Movement leaders can connect with PECs to help them train and launch their own movement catalysts to cross-cultural fields. We anticipate this will assist new movement catalysts in engaging new harvest fields. 24:14 has gathered a number of resources for use by teams and churches…
Becoming the Kind of Person God Can Use to Launch Movements— Part 2
…attached to something that experiences success. The kind of movement leaders and catalysts God uses have died to this fleshly desire and continue to die daily. They champion and value the fruitfulness of others, above their group. Philippians 2:3 says “consider others as more important than ourselves.” These leaders practice…
DMM Strategies in Non-Traditional Contexts
…adds, “many of these groups might not ever walk in the door of a single traditional church building.” He’s probably right. And some church members will bow out, once they learn about the higher bar of commitment. To be a movement “doer” requires about six hours a week: two hours/week…
Essential Qualities of a Multiplication Movement
…aid that we will reap what we have sown in due time—if we do not give up. (Gal. 6:7-9) Steven Covey asked, “Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm—to forget to plant in the spring, play all summer and then cram…
The Church’s Response to Pandemics Throughout History and the Lessons for Today
…aid of their neighbors contributed to the rapid growth of Christianity. For example, when Irenaeus arrived in Lyons from Asia Minor, there were few Christians in the city. When the plague broke out, Christians tended and prayed for the sick, and by the time the plague ended, there were 200,000…