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Editorial Comment
…Dear Readers, I am not at all eager to discuss a certain new book. I know both of the authors personally and think highly of them as fine people. However, it is part of our job here at Mission Frontiers to tackle head-on anything which is going to impact the…
Case Studies of CPMs - The Khmer of Cambodia
…barter economy. Penetrating the forbidding terrain, IMB missionaries have engaged the Maasai with the gospel, placing their major emphasis on training Maasai church planters and leaders. The result has been rapid church growth among the Maasai. Worship is filled with expressions of awe and power as Maasai look to God…
Case Studies of CPMs - A Latin American People Group
…International Mission Board (IMB) missionaries are currently engaged in a number of Church Planting Movements (CPM) and near-Church Planting Movements around the world. While each of these movements bears the influence of our missionaries, each is different as well. Despite these differences, there are common traits that characterize almost every…
A Church Planting Movement Up Close
…The original booklet contains four case-studies. We present one of these in this issue. The other three will be presented in upcoming issues. International Mission Board missionaries are currently engaged in a number of Church Planting Movements and near-Church Planting Movements around the world. While each of these movements bears…
How the World Religions View Suffering
…The attitude of Buddha toward suffering. The gentle Buddha...summed it all up in the startling conclusion: "Existence and suffering are one." He went further than saying that there is suffering in existencehe said that suffering and existence are fundamentally and inextricably one. The thing that keeps us going in the…
Follow-Up Reflections on Churchless Christianity
…If you could envision an India won for Christ, what would its religious life be like? —Herbert Hoefer Returning from a recent trip to India, the original author of the astounding study Churchless Christianity offers here some summary remarks. They seem wistful perhaps at first glance, hopelessly ideal or even…
Christ-Followers in India Flourishing– Outside the Church
…Here a younger man brings to light a truly epochal study not yet taken seriously. Is it too radical for us? Is this like Peter at first protesting against God's welcome to the Gentile household of Cornelius? A Missouri Synod Lutheran missionary, Herbert Hoefer, made a careful study some years…
Can Hindutva Survive the Persecution of Christians in India?
…Interpreted literally as "Hindu-ness" but increasingly implying a radical vision of a Hindu nation, Hindutva may be at risk as the democratic party embodying their vision loses a parliamentary vote of confidence. This document was written just days before the vote, where the BJP coalition lost by the narrowest of…
This Popular Bible Study Has Touched Millions
…Millions of people worldwide have been impacted by the study of the book Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God. The book by Henry Blackaby and Claude King has sold over two million copies, plus another two million copies of related resources such as a specialized Bible. This…
Navajo Nation Places Hopes of Stability on Their First Christian President
…When Kelsey Bagaye was wrapped with the red, black and white chief's blanket on January 12 this year, more was placed on him than the Presidency of the Navajo nation. The Navajo are hoping Bagaye will break the streak of two successive Presidents that were removed from office as a…
Horizon Two: A Pre-Candidate Network Global Links with Local Touch
…Could we work together on a joint, nationwide pre-candidate network to move God's purposes forward? In the book, Choosing a Future for U.S. Missions, Paul McKaughan and William and Dellanna O'Brien summarize their findings from several "think-tank" meetings all over the U.S. by noting: "...there is a negative backlash with…
Global Lessons from the Worldwide Church of God
…How does the American evangelical community respond when one of its customary entries into The Kingdom of the Cults refutes its aberrant doctrinal distinctives and repents of its abuse to those within their own fold? Or, more narrowly, how do the congregants of this movement respond when presented with the…
Christâs Global Cause
…Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? —Jesus Okay, okay . . . the pun in my title (bread roll=role—get it?) won’t qualify for the International Pun-Preservers’ Book of Records. But I do have supporters! Jesus’ question in Matthew 7:9 uses the…
We Changed Our Attitude About Missionaries
…Why do we preach missions as a priority and respond to mission needs and opportunities as options, attachments, and often as distractions? Does the way in which the local church responds to the world missions mandate lack credibility? Does the local church comprehend the extent and nature of the mandate?…
Editorial Comment
…Here are some background thoughts mixed into the editorial comments which will follow: Acts of Satan? Mike Huckabee, the governor of Arkansas, refused to sign a bill referring to tornados as “acts of God.” I wonder, had he been thinking about Job 1:19 which attributes a tragically destructive “great wind”…
GCOWE ’97 Pretoria, South Africa, June 30,—July 5th 1997
…Preparations are moving forward for the upcoming Global Consultation on World Evangelization called GCOWE ’97 in Pretoria South Africa, June 30-July 5, 1997. This consultation consists of ten separate consultations. In this article we present a brief overview of the ten consultations. 1. Mission Executives Consultation Considered central for the…
GCOWE ’97 Mission Executives Consultation Pretoria, South Africa, June 30—July 5, 1997
…For only the second time since 1910, mission agency leaders will be meeting on a global level to discuss cooperation and coordination of their efforts in World Evangelization. They will be meeting as part of GCOWE '97 in Pretoria, South Africa. On the eve of this meeting, we sat down…
What Hath Our Western Money and Our Western Gospel Wrought?
…Increasing financial paternalism and accompanying Westernization of the gospel are the two most critical issues facing us in world missions today. We have a choice to make: either push these issues under the rug and hope they will go away by maintaining the status quo, or face them honestly with…
Editorial Comment
…What I’m covering in this editorial: De-Westernization, or where do we go with the scary subject of our last issue? That’s the mammoth challenge of expecting new non-Western forms of Biblical faith within Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism which will likely not call themselves Christian. What about the “Supplement” to the…
Christian Leaders Express Support for Joshua Project 2000 and the Cooperative Effort
…The ISFM acknowledges the complex task of enumerating and categorizing humanity into peoples and their status in relation to the gospel. In light of this the ISFM recognizes this list as a significant but not comprehensive effort toward identifying peoples requiring frontier mission endeavors. The ISFM is grateful for the…