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Projecting Poverty Where It Doesn’t Exist
…I have been in relationship with the Waodani since 1956, when they killed my dad Nate and four of his friends. My relationship continued through the time my aunt Rachel lived with them beginning in 1958 through her death in 1994. I most recently lived with the Waodani beginning just…
Feeding the Wolves
…The intensifying pace of world evangelism is feeding the wolves. Sheep are dying at an ever-increasing pace. The problem? Decisions are taking precedence over discipleship. In the process, there is an increasing gap between the numbers who are deciding for Christ and the numbers who are being trained as disciples.…
The Genius of Wrong
…I was sitting at a table with an old friend who leads a large and thriving church. “We try to make everything easy for the members of our church,” he said to me. “We encourage them to get to know people in our community, whether in their neighborhood or office…
Turning Wine into Clean Water?
…Church Planting Movements are changing the spiritual landscape among many poor populations. The intention for such movements to be self-funding through bivocational leadership suggests a natural synergy with “Business For Transformation” (B4T). Could Church Planting Movements be peculiarly suited for synergy with business models for delivering clean water to the…
Will the Poor Always Be with Us?
…Condensed from an article published May 2003 in the MARC Newsletter. To excuse neglect of the poor, Christians sometimes remind us of Jesus’ words, “The poor will always be with you” (Mt 26:11). Did Jesus say this? Yes. Does it mean what it appears to mean? Not really. So what…
Spiritual Capital
…Excerpts from God Is at Work (primarily) and The Integrated Life Please don’t send us money; it only creates division. But do send us business people who can create jobs for us, that we can build ourselves up.” The Eastern European Christian leaders at a 2004 conference in Bulgaria were…
The Tragedy in Japan – A Personal Statement
…I was young and single when I went to Africa for the first time as a missionary volunteer. After spending two years there (1961-63), one thing became clear to me: I did not want to return to Africa as a missionary. Instead, I asked our mission to be assigned to…
Godly Disagreement in an Age of Slander
…One of my favorite books published by William Carey Library is the 1977 release of The Night Cometh: Two Wealthy Evangelicals Face the Nation. It was written by Rebecca Winter (now Lewis) and tells the fascinating story of Lewis and Arthur Tappan, evangelical millionaires of early nineteenth-century century America who…
Church Planting Movements Among Hindu Peoples
…The challenge of reaching Hindus A survey in India of the 15 most widely spoken languages revealed that six out of 10 Hindus would like a Christian to tell them more about Jesus. When Hindus hear the story of Jesus and are confronted with the gospel they often understand and…
Someone Has to be First
…As a CPM trainer, I often get requests from missionaries to send them CPM case studies. Their preference is for a study that exactly matches their situation. I get requests like this: Do you have an example of a CPM among educated, post-modern Middle-Eastern Arabs living in Western Europe? I…
Assessing Church Planting Movements
…While waiting on a car repair one day, I had an interesting discussion with a man sitting next to me. As we talked, we discovered that we had a couple of things in common. First, both of us were believers and involved in Christian ministry. Second, both of us lived…
…What wisdom is needed in producing Bible translations for Muslims? An article recently published in Christianity Today by Collin Hansen, entitled "The Son and the Crescent" (February, 2011): 19-23 (cover story) takes up this question. I commend the author for the ways in which he tries to give a balanced…
Lausanne, Cape Town 2010
…I'm sure millions of words have been written about the third Lausanne congress, held in October in South Africa. My friend and co-worker Paul Emery (who is starting a Center for World Mission in Gainesville, FL) was there as a steward on the 'data-mining' team sifting through massive amounts of…
A Discipleship Revolution
…In the 2000 years since Jesus came to Earth we have made great strides in technology. Our ability to communicate the gospel to huge numbers of people all over the planet has never been greater. We have a greater wealth of resources than ever before for proclaiming the gospel to…
Joining the Discipleship Revolution
…He who does the work is not so profitably employed as he who multiplies the doers. —John R. Mott (1865–1955) From the time Jesus selected the twelve, His continuing public ministry was filled with lessons for his disciples as He prepared them to produce future generations of disciplers. In our…
Giving an Answer for Our Hope
…Christians in America are getting exercised, or even “radical,” about all kinds of things these days. I guess that is better than the opposite, but I wonder if we are getting confused in the process. Some evangelicals are building up cultural defenses to stave off encroaching “evil” of all sorts.…
Walking Out the Gospel Among the People
…It was April, 2001 in Cottonwood, Arizona. For the first time in our lives, my wife Jan and I experienced a worship service where Native American instruments and traditional regalia were allowed. The worship was so powerful that many Native people shared how this newfound freedom, freedom to worship Jesus…
Learning From Our Mistakes
…What happens when missionaries teach that the only way of salvation is for a people to completely reject their own culture and accept the “Christian” culture of the missionary? What is the result of not understanding God’s love for all peoples and His plan for every tribe and tongue to…
Making Jesus Known in Knowable Ways
…“I was made to burn and destroy all my tribal carvings, eagle feathers, and my dance outfit because the pastor told me now that I was a Christian, old things passed away and all things became new, which meant all my Native cultural ways needed to be replaced with Euro-American…
Every Ethne
…Partnership Two years ago I was sitting in the office with my co-worker at Every Ethne. It was just the two of us. Our vision? To be a resource for individuals, specifically college students across Iowa who desire to impact every ethnic people group on the planet. How were we…