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Direction—Purpose—Vision—Hope
…atest statement of Vision, or Hope: The fullness of God’s blessing for all peoples and the reconciliation of all things in Christ. That works its way down into our particular Mission, meaning what we try and do ourselves, and alongside and through others: To nurture new ways for least reached…
All Things Are Yours
…aid that rather than the apostles owning factions of the believers, the entire Body of Christ owned all of the apostles. In a typically Pauline flight to the highest elevations and deepest recesses of theological thought, Paul then jumped from the Corinthian ownership of the apostles to the stunning affirmation…
Movements Can Happen Here Too, If We Are Willing to Work for Them
…aid in the sermon and then repeat this process week after week, is killing the Church in America and everywhere else it is exported. At best the Bible-believing Church in America is barely holding its own and is likely in a slow decline with an increasing number of people moving…
Addressing a Blind Spot in Missions
…aid was true.” Literacy is an essential component for making disciples. Jesus said, “If you continue in my word you are truly my disciples.” (Jn 8:31) But it is pretty hard to continue in His Word and examine the Scriptures, the written Word of God, if you don’t know how…
Tribute to Lee Purgason 1956-2020
…aid the groundwork for Perspectives Global – now in more than 25 countries. Under his leadership, classes grew an average of 15% per year and the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement Reader was revised twice. As the years went by and many staff came and went from Pasadena, Lee…
Why Rapid Growth Declines as Movements Grow in Size
…additional new “super-spreaders”—people who are gifted apostles and evangelists—who almost immediately begin sharing widely and making disciples themselves. This cyclical process can lead to sustained multiplication that can bring a movement very rapidly to four generations and 1,000 believers or more (this process is outlined in the Heart and Four Fields…
Global Prayer Digest January-February 2021
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Kingdom Movement Strategies in North American Jails & Prisons
…aid he was overwhelmed with the smells, stares and images and did not make any difference that he could imagine. The second time in Kentucky, he made a commitment to go weekly and they trained inmates in simple multiplicative disciple-making concepts and tools (DMM/CPM). The original number of 11 shrunk…
Kingdom Movement Strategies in a Small/Medium-Sized Church Led by the Pastor
…aid that, we were very intentional in what we did. Our intentions were to make our plans but then submit them to the Lord who orders our steps. Since we at FMBC were all culturally Westernized and linguistically limited, we knew needed Persons of Peace from the culture we were…
Can Kingdom Movement Strategies Work in North America?
…aid to be taking place in the West (see the 24:14 Dashboard.1) Meanwhile, more and more churches have witnessed and are witnessing testimony after testimony of movements overseas. For this reason and others, it seems prudent to ask, “What strategies, if any, can foster CPMs/DMMs in North America? How can…
Influencing Backwards?
…aid, “my brothers and sisters, how I wish we had learned these things and seen these things in our pastoral training…our churches would be movements.” Influencing Backwards This edition tries to describe how influence from movements is shaping what courageous leaders in churches are trying to do. While my focus,…
Kingdom Movement Strategies in North American Megachurches
…aid, “I felt that within the course of 90 minutes, I had done more among truly lost people than I had done in the past five years.” Three weeks later, Ross found himself training and taking 45 others “into lostness.” They then went out as 15 groups of three. Ross…
Security in Intercession for the Unreached: Secret or Wise?
…aid too much about specific places or called attention to a specific method of outreach. We recommend that some of God’s children become more careful in the details we mention in prayer guides and to those on our mailing lists. Here are some thoughts to help frame material we share…
Let’s Put An End to Sex Trafficking
…address. No government-issued ID is required, not even to become “verified” with its trusty blue checkmark that makes everything seem A-OK. I know this, because I tried it. It took me under 10 minutes to create a user account and upload blank test content to the site, which went live…
What Is Human Trafficking?
…aid to come from Asia and the Pacific region, although human trafficking in Africa continues to grow when compared to 2005 estimates. The International Labor Organization also estimates that 55 percent of all trafficking victims and 98 percent of sex trafficking victims are women and girls. That is why sex…
Unreached Peoples & Trafficking?
…aid He did what He saw the Father doing, and if we know He would be doing this, then we have to at least bring it to the light. But that begs the second portion of the same question, because there are already organizations who see it as their purpose…
The Future of Frontier Missions and the World Christian Encyclopedia, 3rd edition
…added a comprehensive list of the world’s peoples and languages with their status in relation to the presence of Christianity, various forms of evangelization and Bible translation. This text presented another way of measuring frontier mission, by analyzing the quantity and quality of Christian resources among a people group. The…
1% of the World: A Macroanalysis of 1,369 Movements to Christ
…await adequate documentation. More is happening than anyone knows; only God sees the full scope. Nevertheless, these numbers are inspiring: More than 1 out of 100 people in our world today are part of a rapidly-multiplying movement to Christ. The number of house churches in movements exceeds the number of…
Sweden’s Secret Weapon in the Fight Against Sex Trafficking and Why It’s So Effective
…aid. “So we really looked into this issue and the connection to prostitution. There was a lot of violence going on, and allowing men to buy women is not exactly gender equality, right?” Criminalize the Buyer, Not the Seller He said the country definitely decided it had to deal with…