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Editorial Comment
…attacks. In any case, no matter what we do, no matter how clever we respond, we really have to face basic problems in the Christian mission. This issue of Mission Frontiers about Global Slavery points out one of the dimensions of our problem. Evangelicals are very well known at the…
Good to Great in the Kingdom
…aid he should take the role if “he wanted to make xyz mission the best one out there.” My friend said he wasn’t interested. My friend doesn’t think that it’s “Kingdom thinking” to make one mission better than the others. He would have found it more Kingdom-oriented if he could…
Editorial Comment
…aid that many of the 1.5 million annual short-term missionaries come home with a conscious or subconscious feeling of hopelessness. Their glimpses of apparently ineffective churches – whether in Nigeria, bordering Lake Victoria, or proliferating in other countries around the world – stunt and blunt all kinds of potential support…
How Can We Serve the Latin Missions Movement?
…adds the difficult part: “if we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with Him” (NASV). If we become risk-averse, we will unduly hesitate to send workers to the Middle East and other difficult places.
A Necessary But Not Sufficient Condition
…AIDS, street kids, poverty, lack of clean water, and much more. But ask yourself: which comes first – full-orbed ministries to address the needs of all kinds of individuals, or the presence of the church in each people? It’s possible, for example, for ministry to the disabled to lead to…
Introducing the “ApNet”
…aid out horizontally as separate ministries, all committed to serving those apostolic workers on the field. These operations would be, in business jargon, “loosely coupled, highly aligned”. Imagine a world with hundreds, of autonomous, specialized but interlinked entities, working together to serve those on the frontlines to fulfill the Great…
Further Reflections
…attitude, “We’re the professionals here; why are churches trying to get into our business?” Greg: Yes, but we should also be able to say, with humility, “We’re good at this”, without being unwilling to say, “We are servants, and are still learning and growing and are open to new ideas…
Editorial Comment
…Aid the Rest have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, by William Easterly. Two reasons “the West’s efforts” have mainly failed is that people who are poor don’t just lack money, and that no plan will work without a few truly honest people. As mentioned, putting people on…
Letters to the Editor
…aid that those in this kind of ministry support local evangelists and not those making breakthroughs into unreached groups. The reality is much different. At Partners International, I looked at our 40 biggest partnerships. Not one is just working in their own group. Non-western missions today are by far doing…
Churches and Agencies Focus on “Finishing the Task”
…addition, 19 churches indicated that in the next 18-36 months they will host a regional “Finishing the Task” conference in order to recruit other churches to join them in reaching all 639 of the prioritized peoples. Churches represented at The Cove included North Point Community Church of Atlanta, Saddleback Church…
Editorial Comment
…aid, in effect, “I am very, very proud of a Gospel that is the power of God to save people who obey God in faith, no matter whether they follow Jewish or Greek customs” (Rom 1:16). But the real trick is not simply for people of faith in every culture…
Living Out “Christ in You” Every Day
…adequacy, not just in the big things, but in everything. She could say with the apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 3:5-6, “Not that we are adequate to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, who has made us adequate as servants of the New Covenant.”…
Missions in the 21st Century
…attacked a certain issue, everything from abolishing slavery to creating special “Sunday schools” to teach reading to children who worked all week. Why not harness this successful model as a vehicle for advancing God’s purposes among today’s least-reached people groups? Today the door is wide open in most countries to…
Learning From a New Wave of Social Entrepreneurs
…AIDS. Demonstration of love between family members has notably increased. What Can We Learn From These Examples? Five principles emerge with direct application for the rapid spread of God’s Kingdom. Without openness to new paradigms, change would not have occurred. Are we willing to relinquish what we know “must” be…
When “Christian” Does Not Translate
…aid something that would have probably shocked most American Christians. She told us that in order to share Christ with her family, she now identifies herself as a Muslim rather than a Christian. “But,” she added, “I could never go back to Islam without Jesus whom I love as my…
Editorial Comment
…aid of that little baby born in the tiny town of Paulerspury in the north of England. No one could have imagined what William Carey would become. (I won’t add about a baby born in Bethlehem because that would be too large an exaggeration.) I will go on to say…
Launching House Church Movements
…aid church planters to get new works off the ground and by offering these leaders resources in the way of seminary-equivalent courses, church planting workshops, training materials, regional leadership networks, etc. This kind of support may accelerate the emergence of house church networks, which might lay dormant in isolated and…
Deja vu All Over Again
…AIDS/HIV victims? Street children? The disabled of the world? The problem with any of these issues or emphases is not that one is more important than another, but that they can inhibit clarification of sequence and priority in world mission, i.e., whom should we seek to reach first so that…
Editorial Comment
…aid back until after graduation and normally requires a small monthly payback amount with a very low interest rate. Consumer debt is normally accumulated because of the use of credit cards that charge exorbitant interest rates. (Many times the high debt amounts are because of trying to sustain a higher…
How to Foment A City-Wide Mission Movement
…aid to pack the schedule with a lot of activities. Each event spread missions vision to someone new. Sponsor Perspectives Courses. The Perspectives course has been used by God in many countries to make a dynamic impact for missions, and specifically for frontier missions. It delivers a strong package…