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When Everything is Missions
…“You keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means.” Any respectable connoisseur of American film recognizes this quote from Inigo Montoya in the 1987 romantic comedy The Princess Bride. Throughout the movie, the Sicilian boss and hot-air artist, Vizzini, repeatedly describes the unfolding…
Acts 1:8 Sequentialism
…As shocking as it may seem (at least it’s shocking to me), many, many Christians are bored. They are dutiful in attending church, being good employees, raising their children, serving their communities in many wonderful and beautiful ways and yet, they are bored. How can this be? How can followers…
Dr. Steve Smith’s Extraordinary Vision and Legacy
…Early in the first decade of this century, the Holy Spirit guided and empowered Steve Smith in launching a Church Planting Movement among a minority people group in East Asia. Steve then teamed up with Ying Kai to write T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution: The Story Behind the World’s Fastest Growing…
Advancing through Persecution in North India
…From the time of the New Testament up to today, bold witnesses continue to see the gospel advance, even in the face of serious persecution. Once when Jesus sent His disciples out on mission, he told them, “I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd…
Unleashing the Kingdom on Toxic Worldviews and Declining Churches
…In the 1990s, intrepid Baptist missionaries were discovering biblical values and processes that consistently catalyzed the kind of outcomes that Donald McGavran once called ‘people movements.’ In 2004 David Garrison published Church Planting Movements that shared what the IMB was learning about movements, and momentum and excitement began to build. …
The Movements of Today Rest upon the Sacrifices of Centuries Past
…How much do you love the Word of God? Would you be willing to lay down your life in order to not lose the ability to read it? For most of us in the English-speaking world, we take the Word of God for granted. We have always had access to…
Indigenous Movements
…Indigenous Movements: How Peoples are Reached By 1975 Donald McGavran and Ralph Winter had guided 1,000 experienced missionaries in studying—globally, and in their own fields: “How are peoples reached?” Answer: indigenous movements. However, few outside their direct influence saw either: the biblical model and mandate for indigenous movements, or the historic…
THE STORY OF MOVEMENTS AND THE SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
…Luke begins the book of Acts by telling us that what Jesus began to do and teach, he now continues to do through his disciples empowered by the Holy Spirit. Luke’s story of the early church is the story of the dynamic Word of the gospel that grows, spreads, and…
The Ripple Effect
…Skipping rocks along the riverside can be a peaceful, even meditative, activity. But there’s always that one friend who wants to find the biggest boulder along the bank and heave it into the water. The ripple effect is impressive with waves that progress far outside the point of initial impact.…
Where did all the girls go?
…Around the world, families face great pressure to have a son. Sons mean honor and prosperity; daughters are a financial and social liability. Desperate families respond with desperate measures and try to “select” for a son by killing or aborting daughters. Every year millions of daughters are strangled, suffocated, drowned,…
Questions of Prejudice in Hungary
…I am a sociologist and a Roma woman. I work for the Kecskemet Reformed Church Roma Mission and I primarily deal with social phenomena concerning Roma people. I think it is important to exchange prejudice for having personal experience and relationship with one another. I often participate in discussions where…
Collaboration Accelerates Church Planting
…The Global Church Planting Network (GCPN) took its first public step in 2009 when two leaders from each continent gathered in the UK to wrestle with the question: “What is the ‘cork in the bottle’ hindering church planting in your continent and what could we do together to accelerate church…
A Significant Time of Germination
…A Committed Community as Means My personal connection to this project began some 40+ years ago. My wife and I had just finished the second summer program (1975) of the Summer Institute of International Studies (SIIS). We were in a seven-car caravan driving non-stop to Guatemala from the Wheaton College…
The Call to Obey the Great Commission Remains Before Us
…Wow! Forty years. So much has been accomplished and yet so much remains to be done. In this issue we pause to look back on the legacy of faithfulness of people like Ralph Winter and others who with vision and passion in their hearts for God’s glory in all peoples,…
40 Years of Unreached Peoples Effort
…The work we are commemorating in this issue (1976-2016) did not occur in a vacuum, but was predicated by a paradigm shift in mission thinking. Powerful new ideas stimulated the imagination of believers, catalyzed their collective energies and birthed the modern frontier mission movement. The dual concepts of 1) viewing…
Pursuing the Vision of Bringing Every Family Home
…Why should unreached peoples have a higher priority than other sets of people? Over the years I’ve often heard people plead the cause of unreached peoples by claiming that they are the peoples where missionaries are needed most. By designating them as unreached peoples we should not be thinking of…
A U.S. Perspective on the No Place Left Coalition
…No Place Left is a global, relational coalition of disciples and churches who love the Lord, love the lost, and make disciples among all nations until the Great Commission is complete. Our only leader is the Holy Spirit. We do not have a staff, a budget, or a headquarters. There…
The International Year of the Great Commission
…“Go make disciples of all nations, baptize and teach them to obey my commands.” (Matt. 28:18,20) “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 1:8) The Great…
The Freewill Offerings Generation
…My eyes have longed for this day, and I believe I am seeing the first fruits of it. A generation is rising up that may fulfill the great Messianic Psalm 110: 1The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand Until I make Your enemies a footstool for…
A Big Day Has Arrived
…As my husband and I continue to implement, train, and coach others in DMM among UPGs, one of the dividing lines of commitment among these Muslims is the area of obedience in the step of baptism. In coaching others to implement this step, the first breakthrough came when God shifted…