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The Legacy of Love in China
…They came with a passion for God and a love for the Chinese people that transformed a nation. They gave up all the wealth and power that the Western world could offer and chose to sacrifice their lives for the cause of the Chinese people. They were the Evangelical missionaries…
How To Best Help China
…In this issue of Mission Frontiers Bulletin we are highlighting China. The purpose of this short article is to make sure our readers realize that the thousands of missionaries who went to China to love the people nevertheless used widely different approaches and did strikingly different things. The work of…
Spiritual Vacuum
…Officially, there are 1.1 million drug addicts in the nation of Iran. It is in fact illegal to say there are more. But in a recent international conference on addiction, a spokesperson for Iran’s Interior Ministry publicly admitted the number is more like 10 million, or around 1 in 7…
Perspectives National Conference
…Imagine attending an event where all the people are extremely committed to the same goal. There is no need for convincing people to get on the same page—they already are. There is no agenda to convince them of, nothing to try to sell them. And they bring with them a…
Today’s Iranian Revolution
…“The only way were going to stop them is to kill them.” This seems to be the present consensus of Iran’s national cabinet concerning the growing Christ-ward movement spreading throughout the nation. Legislation is now being prepared that would make it a capital offense to leave Islam. These strict measures…
A Movement to Jesus within Islam
…The following account is based on the testimony of Brother Jacob and a foreign missionary. It was also investigated and verified by several Christian leaders in the country concerned. There was a holy man, a Sufi master, whom I’ll call Isaac. He lived in a remote and traditional region of…
“Great is Thy Faithfulness”
…Dan Everett was born and raised in a tough town in California on the Mexican border. Life seemed to be going nowhere until he met Keren Graham. The daughter of missionaries to Brazil, she invited him to come with her to church. One thing led to another and they got…
An Anti-Intellectual Faith and the Tragic Consequences for Britain’s Evangelical Awakening
…Recently, I began reading a book so interesting that I stayed up until 2:30 a.m. finishing it. If you ever want a detailed account of how the nineteenth-century English Evangelicals ended the British slave trade; abolished sati and infant sacrifice in India; banned child labor and other such abuses in…
Is a Ph.D. at WCIU a Part of Your Utmost for His Highest?
…In this issue of Mission Frontiers we are calling you up higher in your relationship with God and in your service to Him. Part of this is getting an understanding of God’s global purposes and how He has worked throughout history to accomplish these. Programs like Perspectives and World Christian…
WCF and WCIU in Rwanda
…We want to study the World Christian Foundations curriculum with WCIU because it will help us discover the roots of our society’s problems in Rwanda and find ways to solve those problems.”—Student in the newly formed WCIU Rwanda group. Recently a group of Rwandan NGO leaders, pictured with James, was…
Editorial Comment
…Students are confessing their sins on a number of campuses! So says Christianity Today (Dec 07). If this is widespread it is surely to the good. Have you in your lifetime been present in some sort of a public confession meeting? The fact that thousands of Christian students would be…
Over-Steering a Cadillac
…When I was 7 years old I was allowed to drive a go-cart on the street for the first time. Our family’s 8mm movies capture me over-steering in one direction then quickly turning to compensate and steering too far in the other direction. Back and forth I went while my…
Disruptive Missiology Part 2
…Last issue (MF July-August 2007), I wrote about Disruptive Missiology a concept derived from the idea of Disruptive Technology. Even though I used illustrations from current technology (created by companies like Apple, Microsoft and Google), the idea of disruptive technology has been around a long time. Other examples include the…
The Mission of God
…Evangelism and social involvement: Chicken or egg? Another way the issue is sometimes framed is this: Surely the best way to achieve social change and all the good objectives we have for society on the basis of what we know God wants (justice, integrity, compassion, care for His creation, etc.)…
Social Action & Evangelism
…The threats are growing. For now they just throw stones and tell us to leave them alone, but soon they may decide to actually kill us!” The young pastor was explaining the reaction of zealous followers of a major ‘eastern’ religion to the evangelical efforts of a group of young…
Disruptive Missiology Part 1
…Last issue (MF July-August 2007), I wrote about Disruptive Missiology a concept derived from the idea of Disruptive Technology. Even though I used illustrations from current technology (created by companies like Apple, Microsoft and Google), the idea of disruptive technology has been around a long time. Other examples include the…
The Surprising Relevance of the Three-Self Formula
…In the same way, the Three-Self Formula is much better known in mission circles than it is practiced. It has been around for over 150 years, but just to remind you, it states that a newly planted church is mature or indigenous when it is self-governing, self-propagating, and self-supporting. It…
The Wilberforce Legacy
…The year was 1796. Parliament had convened in early February, and was now conferring on the issue of slavery in the West Indies, a trade in which Britain had long been engaged. William Wilberforce, by now a well respected and established Parliamentarian, had just introduced a motion to ban the…
The Age of Wilberforce
…So writes William Wilberforce a few months before his conversion. Greek scholar Gilbert Murray writes in Religio Grammatici, “[T]he moving force in human progress is not widespread…the uplifting of man has ever been the work of a chosen few.” And we can certainly see how true his idea was during…
The Global Slave Trade
…As Christians, we worship a God who is passionate to rescue the oppressed. He has given us a biblical mandate to “seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, and plead for the widow” (Isaiah 1:17). According to a National Geographic Magazine article published in September 2003, “there are more…