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The Secret of Church Multiplication
…aid in my book, Search & Rescue, “Don’t be content with addition! Stop applauding the pathetic success we see in addition and start longing again for the incredible power of multiplication.” In our current context, however, the success promised by addition is hard to turn down. It is so rare…
Equipping the People of God for the Mission of God
…aid; We will never be free of the problems that cultural Christianity breeds unless we deal with these problems at their root. If we are content to maintain and promote a mission strategy that accepts the status quo in North American Christian culture, we can assume the strong likelihood of…
Framing a New Model of Training Cross-Cultural Church Planters
…aid them in preparing spiritually and emotionally for departure to a foreign land. This group would pledge to pray for and maintain contact with the intern and family as co-workers in the harvest. The Rationale for this Training Program When workers have not had any experience in how a church…
From the Editor
…aid, “Why does the Native American have to exchange his sin-soaked culture for someone else’s sin-soaked culture?” No other ministry leader has had so significant an impact in pioneering new contextual approaches to reaching Native Americans as Richard Twiss. I have never known a more eloquent advocate for contextualizing the…
The Guild
…attitudes, character and skills as well as knowledge, specific conditions need to be met for developing an adequate learning environment, namely: • A context where learning can be experienced • An environment where the felt needs of an apprentice engaged in a task guide the selection of the information he…
12 Months Blocs Spotlight for June 2013
…attack villagers, yet they are difficult to capture, and many butchers will pay a high price for the meat. Often Dian has returned from a hunt with three or four butchers waiting to receive the day’s catch. After some time, three men from Dian’s community asked to join him in…
Enter the Conversation from Urbana ‘12
…aid that the worship leader in their church just got permission to translate all the Hillsongs into Central Java. I thought, “Central Java? I think there are a few arts there!” So I just began to encourage him about appropriating what God has given Central Java and trying to find…
Affinity Blocs: March-April 2013 Highlights
…aid that they had never experienced the church working together like this in their lifetime. Not only did it wake up the church internally, it also brought an international prayer focus for the country that had not been seen since the end of World War II. Traditional models and methodologies…
Effective Engagement After 6 Years
…aid by someone else. As the Scripture says, ‘Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.’” Romans 15:20, 21 Although much can be written about these verses, I’d like to point out three things. First, Paul was absolutely passionate about taking…
Small Groups That Have the DNA of a Disciple-Making Movement
…aid already. He put the picture back on the screen. “Could any one of you remember everything in this image?” A collective, “No” swept through the audience. “Yet, together, you manage to remember most of the details in this painting. Now that you’ve heard everyone list what they remembered, I’ll…
The Boy Who Would Not Die
…aid to look back. He just kept running until his legs would no longer move. Hiding in the bushes, his heart pounded so loudly he feared a soldier would hear it and shoot him like he had seen them do to others. The raid had happened so quickly it seemed…
Simple, Common-Sense Solutions to World Evangelization
…attitudes had largely changed when just two days before his coronation Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom, came down with an appendicitis which was typically untreatable by surgery at that time because of the high risk of infection. Lister was pulled from retirement to advise the surgeons on his…
Breakthroughs
…aid, “I haven’t found any people of peace this week, but my friend Maruska introduced me to her entire extended family: parents, grandparents, brothers & sisters. I don’t exactly have a person of peace, but I’ve been talking with them about the group that we’re leading, and they are really…
Obituary for the American Church
…attitude of Jesus as taking on the attitude of a servant, willing to sacrifice all acclaim and equality with God. It was a willingness to set aside and sacrifice celebrity, consumerism and competition at the altar of the incarnation. Will we have the courage to sacrifice as Christ sacrificed? Will…
Religion-Bashing or Faith-Sowing
…aid that while he will never teach something he knows is not true, he can be wrong! I appreciate that. Many in theological debates put up “theology” as crucial—and it is. But, that does not mean that my theology is always correct. Asking questions and reexamining theological issues doesn’t equal…
Evangelizing Whole Families
…aid local family leaders can be trained to function in them and to mobilize relatives for more extension into other family networks.
The PEACE Plan in Rwanda
…aid that if SVCC would leave Rwanda it would still have accomplished its purpose. He noted that this was because for the first time in the history of Rwanda, all the denominations were working together, not only in various evangelical sub-groups but truly as the Body of Christ. They had…
Africa
…AIDS, poverty, corruption and more. Yet the gospel has made tremendous gains in the 20th Century. How is it that so many have put their faith in Christ and yet the situation does not seem to have improved at all? Should not the transformational power of the gospel have made…
Feeding the Wolves
…aid, “I’ve seen Satan fall!” We don’t see Him quizzing them about the numbers of converts they made. In His earlier instruction before He sent them out, He didn’t lay emphasis on methods. He rather said “Proclaim the Kingdom!” On top of that, He threw up big barriers to discipleship.…
Spiritual Capital
…aid. “We need models of doing business and outreach.” The question arises: Should mission efforts even concern themselves with business activities? Isn’t that a secular pursuit of mammon that runs contrary to the mission of the church? I believe this thinking is wrong on both accounts. Properly understood, the work…