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Global Status of COVID-19 Pandemic
…addressed the virus too late and have had to go to lockdown. These countries are suffering significant economic impacts as a result. Countries most impacted by the virus have also begun scrambling for medical supplies. Some supply rationing has happened. Some people began threatening others over availability of medical supplies.…
Possibilities in the Pandemic
…aid that “people who cannot get to confession because of the coronavirus lockdown or another serious reason can go to God directly, be specific about their sins, request pardon and experience God’s loving forgiveness.” Openness from churches—in a recent call, movement leaders from the Americas, Asia and Africa all mentioned…
Whether Ebola Or Covid-19 God’s People Move Toward, Not Away From, Suffering
…aid to the landlord, “I’m sorry. But I’ve been sick.” The landlord said, “I’m here for my money.” The tenant told his landlord, “I’m sorry, I have just been diagnosed. I have Ebola. But I have your money here, come and take your money.” Alarmed, the landlord said, “I don’t…
Six Ways to Bear Witness in a Pandemic
…aid because anything could happen to your team. But after you’ve won 1-0, when you’re re-watching highlights, you don’t have that fear—you may even smile because you know your team won. It’s the same for us now, despite the uncertainty brought by the coronavirus pandemic. We know the outcome. Jesus…
Three Things We are Doing in the Face of COVID-19
…add to the volume of ideas and reflections. Instead, we are trying to compile things that may not be discussed in other settings. In particular, we want to bring you a sense of what is happening at the edges, at the frontiers, among the least reached. Since I have an…
Beyond Tokyo: an African Perspective
…aid, “Tokyo 2010 brought multiple blessings…. I had the singular opportunity to network with many church and mission leaders in Africa. Lasting friendships have been formed. Some of these have transformed into ministry partnerships that are benefiting church and mission endeavors around the globe.” Amplifying Attention for Discipleship and the…
The Ongoing Impact of Tokyo 2010
…Additionally, GGCN acknowledges from Matthew 28:19 both the breadth (all peoples) and depth (make disciples) of the Church’s unfinished task and pledges to champion and obey this aspect of the Great Commission. We seek to discover where people remain unreached, overlooked, ignored or forgotten. Values of the GGCN The following…
Mobilization as Discipleship
…addresses the relationship between mobilization and discipleship. It is my belief that a church discipled is a church mobilized, a church mobilized is believers discipled. It will take the whole Church mobilized to reach the whole world. Four Processes of Mobilization—Knowing, Being, Having and Doing Discipleship is a lifelong process…
Great Doors of Opportunity
…aid of this verse, that “God causes things to happen that would not happen if you didn’t pray.” Think about that. As crazy as that sounds given the sovereignty of God, it is So…are we praying for God to move in our day to spread the truth about Jesus with…
A Church Prepared for the Worst
…ate of emergency. Whole countries like Italy, France and Spain are on lockdown. The world is hunkering down, hoping this “angel of death” will pass by their door. With growing travel restrictions and spreading quarantines, the global mission enterprise is being forced to rethink business as usual. In times like…
There’s No Perfect Movement Recipe
…aid in 1 Corinthians 11:1, “Follow my example, as I follow Christ.” Behind him came Timothy, Titus, Silas and a host of others. They followed him because he had invested in them. He had taught them how to live, start churches, make disciples, and do the work of the kingdom.…
Tokyo 2010 Unreached Peoples Intercession Task Force: Ten Years Later
…aid, “Prayer is the first domino to fall” and in these past 10 years more focused, fervent and sustained prayer has grown within these movements and within the Church at large.ntly, researchers cataloged over 1,000 movements to Christ, where each spanned at least four generations, and the movements collectively represented…
Review of Tokyo 2010
…address by Dr. Paul Eshleman was titled State of the Unfinished Task. He discussed reaching the remaining 3,500 unengaged people groups. Dr. Eshleman and his teammates led the daily “Casting Vision” track with workshops titled: (1) Engaging All Peoples, (2) World Evangelization, (3) Scripture for Every People, (4) Reaching Oral…
Viewing Missional Collaboration as an Ecosystem
…ate and collaborate in today’s Great Commission context. We have entered a crucial period in the progress of the Great Commission, which will be marked by uncertainty, complexity and the inability to predict or respond to overwhelming changes in our world. The global Church and its missions movements are vast,…
Revisiting the Tokyo Declaration
…ates took the decisive step of adopting the Tokyo Declaration as a basis for ongoing networking and collaboration. The intent of this Declaration from its inception was not to be a stagnant document, but rather the dynamic basis on which Great Commission activities and collaboration would take place. It is…
The State of the Unfinished Task: A 2020 Update
…aid, “We just look for a man who will inform all his family that he is a believer in Jesus, and also has a good reputation in the community. Then we go and hold church in his house.” When I asked him what they did in their church service, he…
John Wesley’s Plan for Multiplication
…aid, “I allow no other rule, whether of faith or practice, than the Holy Scriptures.” This view of Scripture left him free to experiment by dispensing with church traditions that no longer served a purpose. He adapted his methods under the guidance of the Holy Spirit as he pursued the…
Toward the Edges
…aid are empowered by the Spirit are also riddled with human sin, error, and foolishness. A look at 1 Corinthians provides perhaps the most dramatic picture of the paradox I am pointing to, namely that movements are a work of the Spirit and yet also can be rife with folly…
Four Stages of a Movement
…additional training in context. Indigenous believers do not wait for outsiders to initiate evangelism, baptism, discipleship, church planting or leadership of churches. The movement grows because of their confidence that they are commissioned and empowered to do the work of ministry. Most believers and leaders do not see a great…