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Can Poor Christians Obey The Great Commission?
…God’s way of reaching the nations is through his people. We can begin with Abraham, a man called and sent by God. Isaiah reports to us in his 66th chapter, verse 18, that God would raise some of his people and send them to the nations. The Spirit set apart…
Strategic Pursuit of CPMs Through International Students
…“The university is a clear-cut fulcrum with which to move the world. More potently than by any other means, change the university and you change the world.” — Dr. Charles Malik, president of the UN General Assembly. Don’t want to risk your life bringing the gospel to dangerous places like…
From Great Church To Equipping Church
…Where believers are already present, effective missionaries: model effective witness among the lost to find Persons of Peace (POPs) train existing believers to share in the harvest (starting with each one’s sphere of influence). Jesus’ and Paul’s pattern of training new disciples to obey all Jesus commanded is not only…
Women and Vision Casting
…In the past few years, workers tired of seeing few results in hard places desperately went back to the Best to learn from Jesus. Through His Bible and His Spirit, they learned biblical “secrets” for how He cast vision and gave strategies for not just making a few disciples, but…
Zarina’s Story
…Zarina is a bubbly extrovert who has trouble not talking too much. She loves the Lord who rescued her out of a life of darkness and heroin trafficking, and she is now a successful businesswoman who travels and trades between two countries. She was once held at the border of…
Neighbors of Peace
…We, the women behind this article, are your fellow travelers. We are sisters, friends, and neighbors, asking the Lord to show us how to find persons of peace and love our neighbors as ourselves—to find ways to share the love of Jesus in the daily rhythms of our lives. To…
Searching For Persons of Peace
…It was a normal hot humid day. I was again asking the Holy Spirit to show me where He was moving and what was my part in His work. I organized the kids and explained to them: “We are going on another adventure! We are asking God to lead us…
Declaring the Wonders of God in Our Own Tongues
…In the early 2000s Andrew F. Walls, clearly the doyen of studies in world Christianity in the 20th century, drew attention to the wide recognition that Christianity had become a primarily non-Western religion, both in terms of regional balance and ethnic composition. This observation is not necessarily original to Walls,…
Free and Open
…A cry of dismay ran through the assembly. The pastors had just been informed that, due to licensing issues, the Bible they had used for over a decade was no longer permitted for use. “How can you take the Word of God from us?” they asked. “We urgently need it.…
Permission to Worship Creatively
…During a recent event in Asia, I was a bit discouraged that the locals leading singing each morning used songs I knew. They did a very good job and I realize that the event had an international audience that used English as the language medium. The irony was that the…
Living at the Top of the Mountain
…A number of controllable factors can prevent a disciple of Jesus from getting to the breakthrough of a movement of God: lack of effort, non-reproducible methods, and inattention to the highest value activities. But chief among them is lack of faith that God will start a movement “in this place,…
Ownership—It’s What Makes Ministry Happen
…What is the one thing that is most deadly to the spread of the gospel to every tribe and tongue? Many would say the lack of money, manpower or vision. I believe it can be safely argued that dependency and the passivity it breeds is the most deadly problem for…
The Presence of God Amidst the Brokenhearted
…The Yazidis are an ethic Kurdish minority and many are calling what ISIS committed against them last year genocide. In Northern Iraq there are hundreds of thousands of Yazidi people who have over the past year had their homes destroyed, have been force to flee from ISIS, and are now…
Rapid Mobilization
…“It is hard to imagine any sum of money that would have caused an Anglican Bishop to travel nearly 300,000 miles on horseback as Francis Asbury did, disregarding weather and chronic ill health, “to goad his men and to supervise their work.” ROGER FINKE & RODNEY STARK Editor’s Note:…
The Evangelical Recession and the Mission Task
…I just returned from 14 days of ministry in the United Kingdom—York, Redcliffe College in Gloucester, Coventry, and Oxford—as a speaker, facilitator, and consultant. World Mission Associates teamed up with Jim Harries of Alliance for Vulnerable Mission for this endeavor. Executive leaders of mission organizations and agencies expressed a concern…
What Are the Challenges & Opportunities of a Post-Skyes-Picot Middle East
…The carnage of the Syrian civil war rarely makes the news anymore. It seems like an intractable conflict where brutality by one faction is only outmatched with greater brutality by another faction. Politicians and even many human rights organizations struggle to pick a group that they hope will lead Syria…
Kairos Timing
…On August 3, 2014 at 2:30 a.m., Ibrahim awoke to a nightmare. ISIS was attacking Sinjar and slaughtering his Yazidi people. Being responsible for his six siblings after his father’s death, this 22-year-old prepared his family to leave. By 7:30 am, Ibrahim and his family joined the mass exodus walking…
Transform World: A Starfish Structure
…The contexts around us are changing rapidly. Organizational structures can’t hope to keep up with these rapid changes. As a documentation of effectiveness, most organizational structures look back, not forward. Structures are usually built to protect a “brand,” exercise quality control, enhance communication, secure property, or perpetuate and replicate processes. One…
Bihar Summit
…About a hundred mission leaders, frontline church planters and key statewide facilitators gathered in Patna, Bihar from Jan 15-17, 2014 for the Transform World Bihar Summit 2014. This second summit was planned a little over seven years after the initial gathering in the state, where mission as transformation was highlighted…
PRIME
…Today, we have an unprecedented opportunity for collaboration within the body of Christ to help accelerate breakthroughs in our cities and around the world among the remaining 7,000+ unreached people groups. We believe God is preparing the way to accelerate the work he wants to do in the world through…