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24:14 Goal: Movement engagements in every unreached people and place by 2025 (74 months)
…aid, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me...” When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered and were praying. Peter knocked at the outer…
The Great Confusion
…aid, “If mission is everything, then mission is nothing. If everything that the Church does is to be classified as ‘mission,’ we shall have to find a term for the Church’s particular responsibility for ‘the heathen,’ those who have never yet heard the name of Christ.” The Potential Promise and…
The Rise & Fall of Movements
…ated limbs, grotesque reminders of the past. These men had been tortured by the empire he now represented. But after three centuries, Rome’s fury was spent. Persecution had failed to crush the movement that began with Jesus. This missionary movement—founded by a crucified criminal in an insignificant province—was everywhere. In…
Toward the Edges: Using the M Words
…addressed this issue from several angles, asking how to critique our vocabulary and potentially find alternatives. Several proposed alternative English words. For example, Mike Stroope, author of the book Transcending Mission presented, and he has helped many readers begin to think more deeply about the issues of language and the…
Currents of Change: How Did Everything become Missions?
…added to a church’s building faster than a church could be planted among an unreached people. Antibiotics could be distributed much more easily than the gospel could be shared in a different language. In his research on short-term missions, Edwin Zehner notes that by the early 21st century, immediate gratification…
24:14 Goal: Movement engagements in every unreached people and place by 2025 (76 months)
…aid: “When [not if] you are brought before … the authorities, do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say, for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.” (Luke 12:11-12, NIV) He calls us to continue to share, even…
Famine, Poverty & Violence
…addicts is far outweighed by the misery caused to families and communities. Millions of deaths are directly caused by addictions, but there are also millions of collateral deaths. Should missionaries merely call for prayer for those struck down by famines, poverty and violence, or should we follow the example of…
Righting a Wrong-Side-Up World
…aid it was better that He should go, for if He went He would send the Spirit and “…when He comes, [the Spirit] will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment….” (John 16:8) And the body of Christ, “the temple of the Holy Spirit,’” will actively participate in…
The Addiction Industries: Reform Efforts and the Unique Role of Missionaries
…aid Tang Gun. “We are losing our society and this is why we are campaigning against poppy production.22 They have helped reduce Burmese production of opium to a fraction of what it was previously. However, during the same period, Afghanistan’s opium production rose from 100 tons annually in the 1970s…
Toward the Edges
…addressing evil. She outlines four specific “death industries” which will, in various ways, be discussed in this issue of MF. I won’t repeat what she says there or try to do my own overview. Instead I want to come to this from a slightly different angle. Why is MF talking…
Challenging the Death Industries: Duty or Distraction?
…aid, “I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.” Historically, missionaries have spread the gospel while simultaneously fighting the Goliaths of their generation, the giants attacking families and communities with no one to oppose them. Ralph…
Year of the Frontier Prayer Calendars September October 2019
Please see attached .pdf files for the calendars.
Do Short-Term Teams and Disciple Making Movements (DMMs) Mix?
…aid Youth With a Mission’s visionary pioneer, Loren Cunningham. In 1960 when he said this, the concept of short-term missions was revolutionary. Many thought the idea at best, naïve, and at worst, destructive. In that era, missions were only done by longterm workers who dedicated their entire careers to serving…
The Bride
…aid. Indeed, the concept of the body of Christ is a foundational biblical study, both the N.T., historically and globally today. I want to focus on how we talk about the Church. I have written before about a pattern in the history of the Church—that some believe they are more…
When Doing Good Is Controversial
…address abortion. Few Christians will grasp the extent of abortion or that abortion sacrifices children to gods of convenience, education, career or promiscuity. Killing innocent children is abhorrent to God; He punishes those who choose “to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which…
24:14—The War that Finally Ends
…aid down their lives to see Jesus set the prisoners free. This insurgence has spread more rapidly and more broadly than the Arab Spring. It has enacted more lasting change than the fall of the Iron Curtain. Initial sparks have grown into a global firestorm. Millions of spiritual troops have…
The Beginning of Another 40 Years: From 1979 and the US Center to 2019 and Frontier Ventures Centers
…aid about the campus and the founding purposes of our movement. Drawing from older Mission Frontiers articles stretching back 40 years to 1979, I have pulled some of Dr. Winter’s reflections about the purposes and vision of our movement. And I will weave around those comments statements about at least…
In Memory of Dr. Steve Smith March 11, 1962–March 13, 2019
…aid at the memorial service, Steve was the same at home as he was in public. He loved his family and friends well and he loved to serve them. He also loved God’s Word and often shared insights from the Scriptures that helped us better understand how God’s Word applied…
Let’s Finish the Race to Foster Movements in All Peoples!
…ate goal of world evangelization—to provide access to the gospel to every person and to make disciples within all peoples so that God would receive the glory He deserves. (Rev. 5:9; 7:9) Dr. Steve Smith is just such a person. Through his books, Kingdom Kernels columns in MF and leadership…
Completing the Task
…Additionally, the application of these principles will hasten the pace of progress once work gains traction in a particular place or with a certain people group. With the continuing rapid pace of world population growth, we must intensify our efforts to keep up. Each generation has to be re-evangelized, and…