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Editorial Comment
…bartered and bought during a 400 year period of North Atlantic slavery in the past. That is very hard to believe, but the statistics really back that up. The often quoted nearly 30 million slaves in the world today are a very unavoidable reality. They are not a philosophical concept,…
Will Your Agency be Ready for P.E.A.C.E.?
…One of the challenges mission leaders face is the complex issue of globalization, and one of the implications of globalization in mission is decentralization. Major initiatives no longer begin exclusively at the top of mission structures and flow down. Grassroots initiatives abound; they cannot be ignored, and they raise important…
A Cure for Handicapped Churches
…Professor Alan Tippett used to remind us that one can’t understand missiology apart from biography. If you know what I experienced as a missionary, you will understand why I am passionate about some things today and why some other things, however intriguing, do not grab my attention. The issue of…
Which Peoples Need Priority Attention?
…In November 2004, January 2005, and January 2006 three articles on “Which peoples need priority attention?” were published in Mission Frontiers. Each was written by a different set of writers, representing different research groups: Dan Scribner for Joshua Project (JP), Todd Johnson and Peter Crossing for the World Christian Database…
A Necessary But Not Sufficient Condition
…Sometimes people become angry with us at the USCWM. Perhaps angry is too strong; at the very least, they disagree with us vigorously. Usually disagreement is fine, but occasionally I find these people are attributing to us positions that I don’t agree with either! This means they either (1) don’t…
All Four Items Necessary in Every Engagement?
…In our help manual, distributed to all IMB field personnel, we include the following statement: Engagement is about church-planting. Specifically, engagement is about implementing church-planting strategy among each unique global entity. … An entity is engaged when the implementation of church- planting strategy is underway. … Finally, engagement is not…
Introducing the “ApNet”
…We’re all so very familiar with the traditional mission agency (TMA) structure that we may unconsciously think it’s the only approach to obeying Jesus’ Great Commission. TMAs more or less grew up in 19th-century Europe as various “missionary societies”, and have since proliferated especially in 20th-century North America and Europe…
Letters to the Editor
…In response to “Compass, Telescope & Tour Guide: Lessons Learned in Student Mobilization”, by Claude Hickman (May-June 2006): While Mr. Hickman’s intent may have been good, his comments regarding InterVarsity’s Urbana Student Mission Convention (May-June 2006 issue) were both misinformed and circular. Mr. Hickman overstates the number of exhibiting agencies…
Nurturing a New Generation of “Pauline” and “Petrine” Apostles
…My early thinking on apostleship was shaped by Watchman Nee, who made a distinction between the Church and the Work – two distinct entities with distinct spheres. The Church is called to subdue the land, bringing the full weight of the gospel to bear on every segment and aspect of…
News & Notes
…Much has been written on the Back to Jerusalem Movement, the ambition of some leaders of the church in China to evangelize westward through Asia all the way back to Jerusalem. A March 2006 consultation brought together mainland Chinese, overseas Chinese, and others to further explore many of the practicalities…
What is the Church?
…Note: Part 1 on this topic appeared in the January-February 2006 Mission Frontiers. What do we mean by church? What are the key elements of this organism that Jesus said (in Matthew 16:18) he would build? First, people are involved We could say “believing people”– and certainly there must be…
Editorial Comment
…Dear Reader, Undoubtedly, no movie portraying a Protestant mission effort has been as costly or as professionally done as Steve Saint’s End of the Spear, released to theaters in late January. And I can’t think of a more compelling book than his book of the same title. Both highlight the…
Churches and Agencies Focus on “Finishing the Task”
…Eighteen mission agencies – including four of the world’s largest – have challenged local churches to partner with them in “Finishing the Task” (FTT), a strategy to nurture church-planting movements among 639 unengaged, unreached people groups (UUPGs) over 100,000 in population. The “Finishing the Task” campaign was formally launched November…
Editorial Comment
…Dear Reader, This time you must learn a new phrase: Insider Movements. This idea as a mission strategy was so shockingly new in Paul’s day that almost no one (either then or now) gets the point. That’s why we are devoting this entire issue to “Insider Movements.” That’s why the…
Missions in the 21st Century
…The challenge is this: how to catalyze an “insider movement” to Christ in a society closed to traditional mission work? For this to happen, the gospel needs to spread through pre-existing social networks, which become the “church.” People should not be drawn out of their families or communities into new…
A People Reborn
…[Christian Keysser] was born in Bavaria in 1877, went to Kaiser Wilhelm Land (East New Guinea) in 1899, and remained in or near Sattelberg as a missionary till 1921, when he returned to Germany.… A literal translation of [Keysser’s book] is A New Guinean Congregation. A truer, better title is:…
Seeking Initiation and Consolidation Among All Nations
…Antioch Network agrees – missionaries are best sent through mission agencies. In fact, in the relatively few cases where churches can do or have done this well, they have established their own sending structures or parachurch organizations or sodalities. It is also the case that where churches have done this…
“The Bridge of Satan Has Been Broken!”
…In November 2004 we spent a fabulous three weeks in Ethiopia, visiting outreach projects that take the Good News of Jesus to unreached peoples. Our sister church in Ethiopia, Mekene Yesus (The House of Jesus), has grown by four million members in the last fifty years! Yet unreached people groups…
Letters to the Editor
…Dear Mission Frontiers, Mission Frontiers ( July-August 2004) accomplished an important service of … counseling students and mission agencies about student debt [incurred] while preparing for ministry. I would have also liked to have seen a prophetic word about the ethics of overcharging students for ministerial training. Jesus did not…
Overlooked No More
…Five million people make the Russian Northern Caucasus mountain region their home. The Kavkaz (Caucasus) mountains rise majestically between the Caspian and Black seas, crossing eight oblasts on Russia’s most southern border: Krasnodar, Adygheya, Karachay-Cherkessia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Ossetia, Ingushetia, Chechnya, and Dagestan. The ethnic and linguistic diversity of these original Caucasian…