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Interview with Pastor Chris Galanos of Experience Life
…MF: How did you go about casting the vision for disciple-making to your church members? CG: We started by introducing the concepts through two sermon series at our church. The first sermon series was called “Meltdown: The Decline of the American Church” and it was based on the book, The…
ZÚME Update
…Here’s a report from the frontlines on the Zúme Project. As you read this, we’ll be going into year three of this mission to train reproducing disciples and planting multiplying churches around the world through free online training designed for “non-professionals” and delivered in the languages of the nations. As…
24:14 Goal: Movement engagements in every unreached people and place by 2025 (72 months)
…People around the world are excited about the 24:14 Coalition.1 Leaders and catalysts of movements across the globe have begun working together to identify unreached people groups (UPGs) and places. Fresh efforts are developing to bring gospel witness among those peoples and places. But while some rejoice, others protest, seeing…
DMMs—More Than a Fad or Amazing New Strategy
…I’m a little concerned that DMMs are becoming a fad … a popular idea lots of people get excited about without having any idea what is involved in launching and sustaining one. “I’m doing DMM!” they declare before understanding what that means. It’s not that I don’t want more people…
Zealous for the Things that Matter
…“I was trained by David Watson,” my friend said over lunch. “My mentor in Disciple Making Movements was so and so,” I replied. A bit later I added, “I also learned under Ying and Grace Kai.” George Patterson was another person whose name came to my mind. Was I name…
ReforMission: Churches that Changed Their Minds
…During the Reformation, the medieval church discovered that the gospel did not need to be redefined—it needed to be rediscovered. In the same way, our idea of missions need not be redefined, it merely needs to be rediscovered. Let’s hear from three churches that went through a process to rediscover…
The Great Confusion
…A March 2017 Barna survey revealed disturbing evidence that validates our deep concerns about the Church’s Great Commission confusion: 51% of Christians in North America do not recognize or know of the Great Commission. More alarming, of the 49% who say they do (when given five Scriptures, one of which…
The Rise & Fall of Movements
…The Council of Nicaea in AD 325 was the first worldwide gathering of Christian leaders. They represented the churches of North Africa, Europe, and the East as far as Persia. The Emperor Constantine, robed in purple and adorned with jewels, entered and sat down on a chair of gold. Two…
Currents of Change: How Did Everything become Missions?
…The Church has reached a point in history where missions means anything it does in the world. Missions is multifaceted. There’s medical missions, relief missions, short-term missions (which includes a multitude of activities), missions to the elderly, orphan care missions, church planting missions, leadership development and educational missions, evangelistic missions,…
Missionaries vs. The Opium Industry
…From the Editor: This historical case study proves that missionaries can provoke global change by challenging powerful industries and even their own government’s policies---and by coming alongside the hurting they open the hearts of the resistant to the gospel. “I am profoundly convinced that opium traffic is doing more evil…
Righting a Wrong-Side-Up World
…When Jesus’ disciples arrived in Thessalonica the people warned their rulers, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.” (Acts 17:6) They were not wrong. Jesus’ people were turning the world on its head. Rather, the Thessalonicans were mistaken in failing to see that the world…
What’s Killing Us?
…Click on PDF link to see print version with additional charts, graphs and graphics Editor’s Note: There is no greater sorrow than seeing a loved one die. A bridge of compassion and gospel witness between mission workers and the unreached and Frontier People Groups has often been built by helping…
Making a Killing
…Click on PDF link to see print version with additional charts, graphs and graphics Unfortunately, merchants of death have reached the remaining Frontier People Groups before any missionaries. Deadly practices among unreached tribes are not new, such as feuding, infanticide, and cannibalism; however, finding the people groups already crippled and…
Do Short-Term Teams and Disciple Making Movements (DMMs) Mix?
…“I see waves of young people spreading the gospel across the whole world,” said Youth With a Mission’s visionary pioneer, Loren Cunningham. In 1960 when he said this, the concept of short-term missions was revolutionary. Many thought the idea at best, naïve, and at worst, destructive. In that era, missions…
The Abortion Industry and the Gospel of Life
…Click on PDF link to see print version with additional charts, graphs and graphics For believers, abortion is not just another bad thing. Rather, it is the greatest tragedy of all time. Each year, 56 million children are intentionally aborted globally—153,000 per day, 106 babies every minute.1 Roughly 90% of…
Hunting the Lion
…“Take courage,” Livingstone said to them, “I will help you get rid of the beasts.” Dr. Livingstone was speaking to the men of the Bakhatla tribe in Africa about a pride of lions which were attacking their cattle in great numbers, with no fear of man, leading the tribe to…
24:14 Goal: Movement engagements in every unreached people and place by 2025 (78 months)
…A Church Planting Movement (CPM) can be defined as the multiplication of disciples making disciples and leaders developing leaders. This results in indigenous churches planting churches. These churches begin to spread quickly through a people group or population segment. These new disciples and churches begin to transform their communities as…
Daring to Succeed
…Adapted with permission from The Growth Challenge: Do We Dare to Take an Honest Look? By L.D. Waterman, Evangelical Missions Quarterly, Volume 55 Issue 1 (Jan-Mar, 2019) I had been serving among a Muslim UPG for more than 15 years. During some of those years I had led a team…
24:14—The War that Finally Ends
…Dr. Steve Smith devoted his life to following Jesus and leading people to faith in Jesus and then discipling others to do the same. It was his great desire to see the Great Commission fulfilled in our generation. This article is an updated version of an article from January 2018…
In Memory of Dr. Steve Smith March 11, 1962–March 13, 2019
…After decades of faithful service furthering the gospel across the world, Dr. Steve Smith, 57, died on March 13, 2019 after battling liver cancer which may have been caused by a parasite he contracted while on the mission field. He and his wife Laura served with the International Mission Board…