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2520 Entries found for Keyword(s) "aids"
New Wineskins?
…aid to work for Christian projects.3 As a result, neighbors become bitter. Eventually, if all goes well, there may be additional believers and occasionally church buildings are built in villages—and sometimes those buildings get burned down. Rather than the villagers seeing Jesus as something for them, where they are at,…
A Framework for Incorporating the Arts in Short-Term Missions
…aid to training, motivation, strategy, and relational intention. Training. Prioritizing culturally appropriate arts in STM requires specialized training that equips participants to focus on the people, culture, and arts of their host community. If ethnodoxology practices are new to these interns, their preparation will need to be longer than normal…
Culturally-Appropriate Worship
…aid, that he had had an opportunity there to hear the Lord being praised, not only in his mother tongue, but also with rhythms and instruments from his village. He was so overwhelmed to have this wonderful experience during his lifetime that he burst into tears, unable to control his…
Ethnodoxology
…aids in remembering messages; increases the impact of messages through multiple media that often involve the whole body; concentrates the information contained in messages; instills solidarity in its performers; provides socially acceptable frameworks for expressing difficult or new ideas; and inspires and moves people to action and can act as…
The Arts and Trauma Healing
…aid to me, “I saw my son get shot. I praised God. I need to be an example to the believers.” THE BIBLE HONORS VOICES OF PAIN In fact, however, laments are sprinkled throughout the Bible. Christ lamented on the cross: “Why have you abandoned me?” A psalmist laments, “How…
Indigenized Christian Worship in India
…attitude will change only if the church changes from its roots. Before attempting indigenization in missions outreach, the church’s worship must become indigenized. Over the years, churches used indigenous methods to evangelize the world, while keeping all the Westernized forms in the worship. In my opinion, the church should change…
The Prayer Life of a Movement Catalyst
…aid, “How many days do you think it has been since you lost your temper and fought with me? Six months!” I had prayed for 26 years and many other people prayed for me. I asked, asked, asked but now I only sang to the Lord and praised the Lord.…
From the Guest Editor
…AIDS and amongst widows. Mark Overstreet provides an overview of how orality works in church planting; Laura Macias looks at how the arts are appreciated within oral cultures. God is blowing a new wind among Muslims. David Garrison’s new, insightful book, A Wind in the House of Islam,6 talks about…
Spreading the Word to Know the Truth
…AIDS outreach in my country. First, we involved local Muslim leaders even in the messages, because for oral people the person who says something is often more important than what is said. We hired a well-known Muslim media personality to be the narrator and even used parts of the Quran…
Empowering Widows
…aid the widows and now attends some of the forums. In sum, orality demands collective dialogue to empower community change. Telling their Story: We encourage widows to tell their stories. For most of them, it is one of the few times they get to share their grief with others. Talata…
Raising Local Resources
…aid, given from Christians and churches in the Materially Developed World (MDW) to the less well off in the Majority World starts from motivation similar to this. As followers of the One who included a generous lifestyle and care for the poor and needy as part of his manifesto, (Matthew…
Saving God’s Face: A Chinese Contextualization of Salvation Through Honor and Shame
…aid to God, “Father, glorify (honor) Your Name!” (John 12:28-29), showing that God honored Himself by Jesus dying on the cross. As the prayer in Psalm 79:9 says, “Help us, Oh God of our salvation for the glory of your name: deliver us, and atone for our sins for your…
Blessed to Bless Others
…aider, Project administrator, helped teams with project planning in Chile, Mexico, Brazil and Honduras. Julian Salinas, video editor, helped with final filming of some Scripture passages in Cuba and El Salvador. Other teams are using illustrations created by graphic artist Ruben Guerrero. Translator Ginna Muñoz has provided feedback to the…
Sorrow & Blood
…awaits us, but my honor has been to witness this remarkable advance of the kingdom of God in Christ. We are convinced that present and future cross-cultural servants will profit deeply from this resource anthology. We are encouraged that the Portuguese version is in final stages of production, the Korean…
Kingdom Kernels
…aid to him, “Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” 20 And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.” (Mark…
How to be a Savvy Investor in Water + Gospel
…attack along the way. Each year 443 million school days are lost by children who miss school to fetch water or from water related illness. Clean water can significantly improve quality of life and productivity for millions of women and children. Water can also serve as a tool to empower…
From the Editor
…attack a problem. As we make clear in nearly every article, this mission of God is about coming alongside people in need as servants and advisors. It is not about doing things for people but rather helping them to provide this vital resource for themselves so that they consider it…
Good Works Empower the Gospel
…aid that because the gospel is a message of hope, the poorest must see some concrete reason for hope before they can understand the gospel. Words themselves have no power if they do not refer to reality. Jesus’ words were constantly accompanied and informed by the actions to which His…
How One Man Dared to Shake Up World Missions
…aid the larger cause of the Church by reminding us that the “Augustinian” view of providence he came to question can devolve into fatalist passivity. It’s all too possible to glibly quote Romans 8:28 to mean that “everything that happens is intrinsically good and therefore God’s immediate design”. Romans 8:28,…
What Should We Do With All Our Money?
…attitude of superiority towards Eastern peoples, and to point to our material progress as the justification of our attitude. We are accustomed by tradition to an elaborate system of church organization, and a peculiar code of morality. We cannot imagine any Christianity worthy of the name existing without the elaborate…