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Afghanistan in Focus
…attacks on the U.S., Ahmad Shah Masood, leader of the Northern Alliance resisting Taliban rule, was assassinated by radicals posing as journalists. On October 7 the U.S. launched air strikes against the Taliban regime and the terrorist camps of Osama bin Laden. With the help of U.S. air support the…
Islam and Christian Militarism
…aiding one another’s caravans, and rename it jihad, that is, striving in the way of God.1 The period of the Crusades (A.D.1095-1291), those Christian military expeditions commissioned by the Church to wrest the “Holy Land” out of the hands of the Muslims, were not an exception to wars fought in…
The Other Terrorists
…aid by a mysterious bone- marrow cancer, I had puzzled over the artificial separation in our theological and missionary heritage of the “natural” world from the “spiritual” world, and especially our dulled senses to the truly horrifying amount of violence which is seen at every point in nature. That violence…
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…
Facing the Facts
…addresses the sometimes distorted financial picture of missions. Operation Mobilization has people from about 80 different countries working in dozens of other countries around the world. But, we do not take people from new, emerging, sending countries unless they can arrange their own support—most of it from their own country,…
Chipping In
…aid that one reason for giving is to achieve equality (2 Cor. 8:13-14). That is one of the most troubling statements in the Bible for me! It should make anyone who lives in relative affluence extremely uneasy. That unease is bearable if we have the more basic joy of the…
Where are We Headed?
…adds to His focus. The idea that the gates of Hell will not prevail against the church strengthens our church planting focus. The gates of Hades are keeping people from the light and truth that is found only in Christ. As Jesus builds His church, Hell’s gates will not be…
A conversation with Roberta King
…aid “Tchieh! You mean that God is for us? We thought He belonged to the Cebaara.” The critical factor is that we assume that if we use something from another close people, they will understand and accept it. Even though they are both Senufo, there are people groups—languages and dialects…
Reaching New Heights and Hearts
…aid them in their decision making process. Co-editor of Perspectives, Steve Hawthorne recalls one of Winter's oft-repeated refrains: "God cannot lead you on the basis of facts you do not know." So, in an effort get the facts out, the Summer Institute of International Studies created what is now known…
Letters
…Aid Mission Your December 2000 issue is even more excellent than usual. I especially appreciate your news abstracts and the web references where appropriate for additional info. Charles T. Greenville, NC I am Assemblies of God, and I just finished reading the September 2000 edition. It touched my heart and…
The JESUS Film Makes Astounding Progress
…aid in Romans 15:20, this has been very important to us. We go into a new millennium with at least one denominational organization or mission that's committed to planting a church in every remaining unreached people group. The third thing I consider significant is attaining "coverage" of proclaiming the Gospel…
Is There a Cure?
…aid they did not have any shipping containers, the people said, "What kind of missionaries are youno 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 this way?…
What Kind of Church Will It Take?
…attitudes of worship and kingdom work that will result in all peoples having an opportunity to hear the wonderful message of salvation through Jesus Christ. The remainder of the Book of Acts recounts Paul's three missionary journeys. The majority of the subsequent New Testament books were written to churches founded…
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
…aids. Hudson Taylor, one of my heroes in the faith, a great missionary to China, also grew his hair long and wore it in a braid. Consequently, he was kicked out of the missionary compound by his fellow British comrades. He had begun to reject their "Christian" culture in favor…
Finishing the Task:
…aid would take place, "And this Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a witness to all the nations, and then the end shall come" (Matthew 24:14). A close look at the end of this verse says a lot about what we should watch and…
An Early Homecoming
…aid, speaking of her roots in Baltimore. She was in Mission Frontiers' Pasadena office taking care of details on what was for her something of a side project--serving as guest editor for this special African- American edition of the magazine. As we talked and laughed and ironed out details that…
Jewel of the Kingdom: William Sheppard
…attitudes towards the African-American missionary. Eventually Sheppard approached Booker T. Washington about the discrimination that the African American missionary was confronted with on the field. Little developed from this meeting because of the First World War and the white mission establishment's lack of interest. Sheppard retired from the mission in…
The Ten Universal Elements
…aid clergy often emerge. However, the majority--and growth edge of the movement--continue to be led by lay or bivocational leaders. This reliance upon lay leadership ensures the largest possible pool of potential church planters and cell church leaders. Dependence upon seminary--trained or in nonliterate societies, even educated--pastoral leaders means that…
Are You Standing on the Shoulders of Giants?
…adage: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Western and non-Western Christians today seem to have little interest in Christian history. The greatest evidence of this trend is the constant reinvention of global plans to evangelize the world. Emerging now at nearly one…
MF Behind the Scenes
…attack. She had the heart of a historian and a mobilizer. Her passion was for African Americans to know their heritage in missions and to recapture their forefather's vision for missions. You can see our tribute to her. She was very excited about this issue of MF and its potential…