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The Lens of Kingdom Movements in Scripture: A Biblical Exegesis of Church-Planting Movements
…Are Church-Planting Movements (CPMs) or Disciple-Making Movements (DMM) a concept based in Scripture? Doubters feel CPM practitioners read the Bible with CPM-colored lenses. But, could it be the opposite—that our generation’s lenses no longer see the movements inherent in the New Testament? All of us have a set of lenses…
Indigenized Christian Worship in India
…One of the greatest challenges of the Indian Christian church is its Western heritage. Most mainline denominations follow a Westernized liturgy and music in their worship. When missionaries came to India they translated the Bible and their own hymns into the local languages for use in worship. But now even…
Sorrow & Blood
…MF: Bill, what is the importance of this book? BT: First, nowhere else will you find a “resource anthology” that is truly global, with 68 voices from 22 nations, women and men who represent the essence of what we call in the WEA MC, the “reflective practitioners” of our world.…
The Case & Call for Oral Bibles
…In 2006, the late Avery Willis, former vice president of the Southern Baptist’s International Mission Board and founder of the International Orality Network, stood before 40 missionaries in northern Iraq and began his talk by saying, “For forty years I did it wrong.” I was amazed. I had no idea…
The Bare Essentials of Helping Groups Become Churches
…I was training a group of missionaries in Southeast Asia when we came to the subject of helping small groups (e.g. Bible study groups) actually become churches. The missionaries in this context were struggling to get churches started, not to mention the larger goal of a Church-Planting Movement (CPM). I…
Getting Kingdom Right
…What comes to your mind when you hear about a movement of God in which almost 200 churches were started within three years in a remote people group? What comes to your mind when you hear about a movement of God in which 150,000 urban and rural churches were started…
Learn from Our Mistakes
…In 1973, a third of a century ago, David Cho, Ph.D., invited several of us from the West to a meeting in Seoul, Korea, which preceded the formation of the Asia Missions Association. On that occasion I presented a paper urging Asian mission leaders not to make the same mistake…
Jesus Movements
…There is a growing phenomenon taking place concurrently within at least every sizeable region of the world today. People within numerous different tribal cultures and also people within the cultures of each of the major world religions are increasingly accepting Jesus without converting to Christianity and without joining churches. They…
Are There Church Planting Movements in North America?
…I have given my entire adult life to trying to discover the secret to starting spontaneous church multiplication movements. It has been an obsessive curiosity that has become a life calling. Unhappy with anything less, I have abandoned much in its pursuit. One of the things I figured out through…
Celebrating the Work of God Through the Life of an Innovator
…Introduction Creative approaches to life and work seem too rare. All of us can think of people we know who are “a little different” in a creative way. Sometimes they are a bother. Why don’t they just do it the acceptable way everyone else does? Why do they always come…
When Business Can Be Mission
…Some people think that missionaries only do “church work.” Missionaries do believe that their central strategy must be to bring people under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and into accountable fellowships within the family and small groups. But missionaries also set up schools, clinics, agricultural ventures and businesses. They are…
Affinity Blocs and People Clusters
…The Purpose of This Article The Great Commission is unequivocal: we are to disciple all the ethnic groups in the world! For 25 years we have struggled to define, classify and list the world’s people groups. Only in the last six years have we had in our hands reasonably-complete, published…
Editorial Comment
…Dear Reader, I need to connect for you the tie that binds the two major themes of this issue – the mystery of “insider movements” and the nitty-gritty of prioritizing some people groups above others. Let me approach it this way: The “Reached Peoples” Suppose we track a person who…
Introducing the Global Network of Mission Structures
…Finally … a Global Network of Mission Structures has been called forth! Prompted by initial discussions at the Singapore 2002 Unreached Peoples Consultation, a group of 28 delegates from older and newer agencies gathered in Amsterdam April 18-21, 2005 to found the Global Network of Mission Structures (GNMS). Since the…
Missions at the Edge: Moving Past Cultural Christianity
…In conjunction with the International Society for Frontier Missiology and the Alliance for Missions Advancement, the Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies (EFMA) conducted its 2003 annual meeting September 15-18 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The theme: “Missions at the Edge: Moving Past Cultural Christianity.” EFMA president Paul McKaughan comments, “The edge…
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
…I love it when Americans ask me where I live these days. My answer: “Between a rock and a hard place.” Not many people can say that. Here’s why. English-speakers usually pronounce Iraq as “eye rack” or “a rack.” However, when Middle Easterners say Iraq, it sounds closer to “a…
Attacks on Christians Are Increasing in India
…This article on recent violence in India was published by The New York Times before the world was aware of the Staines tragic death that very day. January 23, 1999 Jarsol, India In this hamlet nestled in the teak forests of western India, on a recent starry night, Sitaram Devjija…
My Friend, Jim Emery His Lasting Contribution to Missions and to My Life
…James Hodges Emery A servant in Christian work for five decades, Dr. Jim Emery was a pastor, a 25-year field missionary and a key figure in the starting of Theological Education by Extension. I first met Jim in 1946 when we both attended Princeton Theological Seminary. Before that I had…
Faith Promise
…There are three great truths about God: God loves the world. God has unlimited resources to reach the world. God channels these resources through His own people. One of God's favorite ways to channel His resources is the “Faith Promise Offering” which is a modern way to describe the way…
Must the Faith Get Out of Control?
…The Presbyterian Fellowship is an example of a specialized task force concentrating exclusively on frontier missions to Unreached Peoples yet working cooperatively within a denominational structure. Today it musters resources for outreach to 140 Unreached Peoples and has a goal of reaching 200 by the year 2000. Ed. On the…