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Editorial Comment
…aid, "By their fruits you shall know them." He did not say "You can tell them by their names." But neither did He mean that "Anyone who attends church is a true Christian." One of the hallmarks of the Evangelical movement has been the observation that "not all 'Christians' are Christians,…
Good Intentions Gone Awry
…aid for it, performed their act--and went back home. Then we received their newsletter about how they "did a mission campaign" in Eastern Europe. They did not bother to consider if their activity was really worthwhile, what its real impact was, if it was really the thing we needed, and…
How the World Religions View Suffering
…aid that suffering and existence are fundamentally and inextricably one. The thing that keeps us going in the round of rebirths is desire, for out of desire, deeds spring, and deeds keep up the necessity of the weary round of birth and rebirth to get the fruit of those deeds.…
Suffering and Martyrdom
…aid of the ones who can kill only the body, and He charged them to bravely lose their lives in order to gain the victory (Matt 10:26-39). Hence, John was simply following the teaching of his Lord when he depicted the casting out of Satan and his defeat through the…
Follow-Up Reflections on Churchless Christianity
…aid those who were responsible for the death of her husband should be forgiven as it was the will of God. She is an example of divinity in a human being. We do not come into this world of our own will nor can we postpone death as we wish.…
Christ-Followers in India Flourishing– Outside the Church
…attitude which hinder the free flow of the Gospel into the community. They want to be servants of the Kingdom, rather than servants of the church" (xiii). Nonetheless, one must question whether Hoefer in the end is either too traditionally attached to the church or just not careful enough to…
When the Mission Pays the Pastor
…aid be ended by teaching the Two-Thirds World churches to give.3 The question was hotly debated by my mission team, but without a satisfactory conclusion. It was the source of tremendous tension for us. When I entered my doctoral program, I was determined to investigate this issue thoroughly, not to…
Mission Frontiers’ Missionary Attrition Series - Part 1
…aid, we can do a much better stewardship job with our missionary force. "Expatriate Assignments May Not Be Fulfilling Their Objectives." (Exerpted from Personal Journal, June 1996) 1. Has your organization experienced early repatriation of expatriates? No 27% Yes 73% 2. Has your organization experienced the early return of expatriate…
Consultation on Student Mobilization Moves to De-Marginalize Mission
…aid, "The whole weekend was, for me, an answer to years of prayer." The proposals offered to strengthen ministry to college-age youth included: Shifting the mind-set from "recruiting" to "befriending," providing aid to students who increasingly carry heavy emotional baggage but have much to offer the Kingdom, integrating parachurch disciplers…
Depopulation Bomb
…aid for with good old American tax dollars. Sterilize or Starve In February 1998, reports of a U.S.funded campaign of forced sterilization in Peru found their way to the U.S. House International Operations and Human Rights subcommittee and into major media outlets including The New York Times. Buttressed by Peruvian…
The AD2000 Women’s Track
…Adygs, Dagestans, Tatars and Bashkirs, all representatives from unreached peoples. From across the sea in Muslim Turkey came forty Christian women. Most had never been out of their country; many were apprehensive about meeting Russians whom they stereotyped as austere and rigid. Before the week was out, barriers had been…
The Escalating Filipino Force for the Nations
…aid, "'you know, I think we've got to give this away. We can't keep it to ourselves, we're both foreigners here in the Philippines and this has got to be owned by the Philippines. The Filipino church has got to be part of this.'" With this growing conviction of their…
Self-Reliance or Interdependence
…aid, "We don't have any needs with which you can help." So the people in Africa said, "If we can't help you, then you can't help us." The test of terms like interdependence and partnership is to ask in how many directions resources flow. It is also important to ask…
Editorial Comment
…aid (as I would have, unthinkingly) that a certain ugly, cruel reality "is truly nature's fight-back." How do we blame "nature?" Who is nature? God or Satan in this case? In this case my friend referred to what I now, recently, call clear evidence of diabolical ingenuity, ingenuity in the…
Mongolia
…aid or engaged in development and other forms of social work as formal missionary visas were not being granted. For most of the missionaries, this was their first time on a mission field, and there was a strong sense of urgency in the mission community. Some came and went but…
Are you #1, #2, or #3?
…aid agencies in mobilization and reaching unreached peoples. We serve agencies in: Recruiting Contacts General Promotion Member Support On-Field Training Pre-field Preparation Member Care Donor Materials Other areas Often, representation for a mission agency comes through missionary families which need a time in the states--for training, health or family reasons.…
Editorial Comment
…attitudes of an era inform the individuals then living, often *blinding* them to the consideration of alternatives." (Emphasis mine.) Yes, "trapped, blinded" in what only seems to be "free will." 4. Gregory Boyd will soon be widely talked about! His recent book, God at War (Intervarsity Press) portrays in very…
Editorial Comment
…AIDS research, the 20% that ends up in cancer research going almost entirely to evaluating treatments not working toward prevention. I understand that all 40 funded projects of the federal National Cancer Institute are focused on chemo and radiation treatment, not prevention. It’s like getting caught up in 150 Vietnam…
In Memory of Shirley Clingman
…attack the body and major organs, like my kidneys. It runs free with mixed signals, saying I am sick when I am not...I have swelling, soreness, pain in joints, headaches, stiffness, skin rashes, loss of hair, nail deformity, sores in my mouth and nose, vision impaired, no energy, fever, overall…
Christâs Global Cause
…adage this way: “God has a wonderful plan for the nations, and He loves you and me enough to give us a place in it.” Scripture unfolds that awesome blueprint. The more we study it the more God will show us right where to fit into His plans. The Perspectives…