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The Guild
…An Ancient Model of Training is Needed Birthing kingdom communities (fellowships oriented around allegiance to Jesus and life in his kingdom) is much more a craft than the pursuit of an academic subject. Therefore a more suitable model for training is needed beyond the typical Bible school or seminary structure.…
Affinity Blocs: March-April 2013 Highlights
…Spotlight for March 2013 Eurasian Peoples With Emphasis on the Peoples of the North Caucasus By Helen Bruce “Russia is for Russians.” In 2013 Moscow this prolific and profane graffiti hearkens back 100 years to the failed policies of tsars and leaders of Russian Orthodoxy, who advocated for one religion,…
Editorial
…Over the last 66 years, no other missions event has had so powerful an influence on the mobilization of students for cross-cultural involvement in missions as the Urbana student mission conventions sponsored by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. The list of people involved in the first “Urbana,” held in Toronto, Canada in…
What’s Getting in the Way?
…The world is a big, complicated place. The Muslim world is a 1.5+ billion person segment of that world with significant Muslim populations stretching from West Africa to the southern Philippines. With its heartland in the Middle East, where all history began and where it will all end, for political,…
Cultivating a Passion for All Peoples
…This year marks the 50th anniversary of the “Peace Child” story—my parents’ 14-year adventure of obedience among the Sawi people of Papua, a journey that culminated in the dramatic breakthrough of God’s love into their violent and isolated tribal culture. I grew up as one of them, speaking their language,…
Reaching the Unengaged
…I was in a small Karamoja village in northern Uganda. One hundred and eighty thousand people had died of starvation the year before. On the outskirts of the village was a pile of human skulls that stood as a stark testimony to the tragedy. I picked up two of the skulls…
The Most Abominable “Word”
…The term “unengaged” is the most offensive in missionary terminology. It is a blatant acknowledgement of the missionary community’s refusal to fulfill the minimal apostolic prerequisite of being present among all peoples and beginning the work of gospel proclamation. It is offensive to the LORD of hosts, who is the…
Affinity Blocs
…Spotlight for January 2013 Peoples of the Horn of Africa With Emphasis on the Cushitic Family Approximately 150 people groups inhabit the Horn of Africa, a region including Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, northeast Sudan, southeast Egypt and northern Kenya. Scholars classify the peoples of the Horn into four groups…
Further Reflections
…Just the other day I heard a panel discussing a couple of “hot” topics in missiology at the North American Mission Leaders Conference, sponsored by Missio Nexus. As they were ending, Steve Moore—who heads this mission network (www.missionexus.org)—told a story about a call he had received from a very concerned…
Immigrant Europe
…As I watch the landscape of Europe and see the economic, political, social, and religious upheaval all across that great continent, I am reminded of God’s promise in John 16:33: “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have…
Simple Churches
…Our goal is not only the multiplication of churches or numbers of believers; our goal is to see transformation. —Habib, Senior disciple-making trainer. Maysa was a very ordinary person living in Africa. She and her husband owned livestock, and they traveled about the countryside with groups of other nomads…
Breakthroughs
…Editor’s Note: The principles of multigenerational disciple-making and the rapid replication of churches contained in strategies like the T4T Process and the Discovery Bible Study method are being applied in real life contexts in various places in Europe—one of the toughest mission fields—with great results. Here are a few stories of…
Obituary for the American Church
…From time to time I will have the people I’m discipling write out their own pastoral obituary. I ask them to write out how our enemy would take them out, rendering them unable to serve their family and communities. As you can imagine, the answers vary, but it always serves…
How to Adapt
…The buried treasure of equipping existing churches with evangelism/discipleship tools, like Training for Trainers (T4T), is that we may wake the sleeping giant. Every community has an endowment of thousands of believers who, if they have read the New Testament, probably want their church to look more like the book…
Building Momentum
…Over thirty years ago it was proposed at a world-level meeting known as Edinburgh 1980 that a network and movement of centers for world mission be formed which would do the following: research the unreached peoples; assess the potential harvest force; establish a global registry of unreached people engagement; develop…
What Have We Learned From 200 Years of Doing Missions?
…Raising the sails for the wind of the harvest Steve Smith, Church Planter and co-author with Ying Kai of T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution From the days of Carey until now, missionaries have continued to refine ways to implement biblical expectations for God’s kingdom to come fully to unreached peoples. Each…
A Few Thoughts and Proposals Regarding Insider Movements
…The Existential Reality Our evangelical community across the world is debating, as we should, the limits and connections between cultural identity and faith in Christ. This is especially intense in those cultures where religion plays a dominant role in framing one’s identity. In almost every mission focused on unreached people…
Can Short-Term Teams Foster Long-Term Church-Planting Movements?
…As the overcrowded and under–maintained bus slowed to pick up a passenger on the rural Asian road, an older woman stepped out of the bushes. The bus struck her and knocked her 20 feet, killing her instantly. A small boy and girl, probably her grandchildren, fell on her body weeping.…
Mapping the Unfinished Task
…The Holy Spirit cannot lead you on the basis of information you do not have.” This provocative statement is one which Ralph Winter was often known to recite. Though obviously a generalization, history has demonstrated the reality that the more people know of God’s plan the further the Great Commission…
The PEACE Plan in Rwanda
…The efforts of Saddleback Church and the PEACE plan (www.thepeaceplan.com) in Rwanda under the leadership of pastor Rick Warren is relatively well-known and has been widely reported in the secular and religious press since its inception in 2005. Likewise the phenomena of Short Term Mission going forth from Saddleback Church…