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What DNA Are We (Really) Reproducing?
…aid this about his team: We are a successful team. We are seeing people become followers of Christ. We come from large, upper-middle-class churches with multiple staff, large budgets, and large buildings. None of us was ever involved in a church plant prior to coming to this Asian field. None…
Editorial Comment
…aid is in exchange for what we do, but what we do is as important as what we get paid. Jobs are not all the same in this respect. Making a good living by manufacturing Beanie Babies is not as crucial as exterminating Hepatitis B and C. In a 1636…
A Survey of Kingdom Collaboration
…aid that all cultures have both idealized and realized values. These values represent the way things ought to be and the way they really are. The distance between what we dream about, hope for, and expect – and the way things really are can create tension, disappointment, sometimes disillusionment, and,…
When Our Message Falls Flat
…attacking the Body of Christ or causing disunity. Yet when we learn of the number of Christians in North America or around the globe, we have to ask: why aren’t they making more of a difference? Either (1) we are hiding our light under a basket, (2) there isn’t any…
The Shifting God(s) of Western Christianity
…ated to let me look at it, even though they wanted the Bible Society to publish it. In one case, I sat on the doorstep of a mission house for three mornings while the missionaries inside debated about whether I was Christian enough to look at their work. In another…
Compass, Telescope and Tour Guide
…attitude of “inviting.” We must be authentic and invite others to the life we’re currently living. Students might idolize the worship bands and speakers that bounce across the country in tour buses and airplanes, staying just long enough to brush a few hands on their way to their next gig…
Ethnê ’06 Coordinates, Accelerates Efforts Toward “Least-Reached” Peoples
…address spiritual, social, economic and cultural needs of each population segment. Least-reached groups do not have a viable church which can reach their own people. The goal is that each formerly unreached group will have a movement of consistently reproducing, indigenous churches that will take the major responsibility for sharing…
What is the Church?
…aid (in Matthew 16:18) he would build? First, people are involved We could say “believing people”– and certainly there must be some of these – but it also seems that there will always be some in the church who are not believers yet are part of the church. Jesus hints…
The Uncertain Future of Missions
…aid, “In Japan the company is the family.” Wal-Mart to the Rescue? The Waltons of Wal-Mart fame (Presbyterians) gave $1 million to the seminary in Guatemala, which did not need more buildings, being a distance-education operation. It could possibly have been more helpful if they had invested in a major…
Rebuilding the Corporate Student Mission Movement
…Aided with fasting and prayer, Nehemiah then embarked on one of the most remarkable testimonies in the entire Scripture to the power of unity and cooperation. He returned to Jerusalem from Babylon, motivated his fellow countrymen for the task, and arose to see the walls rebuilt in a matter of…
Sharing the Gospel Through Open Networks
…aid, “As we have seen the resistance toward changing religions and the huge gap between the Muslim and Christian communities, we feel that fighting the religion-changing battle is the wrong battle. We have little hope in our lifetime to believe for a major enough cultural, political and religious change to…
Maximizing the Bible!
…aid, “As we have seen the resistance toward changing religions and the huge gap between the Muslim and Christian communities, we feel that fighting the religion-changing battle is the wrong battle. We have little hope in our lifetime to believe for a major enough cultural, political and religious change to…
Reviewing the September-October Mission Frontiers
…aid, “As we have seen the resistance toward changing religions and the huge gap between the Muslim and Christian communities, we feel that fighting the religion-changing battle is the wrong battle. We have little hope in our lifetime to believe for a major enough cultural, political and religious change to…
Minimizing the Bible?
…aid, “As we have seen the resistance toward changing religions and the huge gap between the Muslim and Christian communities, we feel that fighting the religion-changing battle is the wrong battle. We have little hope in our lifetime to believe for a major enough cultural, political and religious change to…
The Global Status of Evangelical Christianity
…additional attention. Thus, our motivation for prioritization is one of focus, not limitation. Our ultimate goal remains: all people groups. Some Definitions We also agree with writers in this series that our task is served well by research which examines God’s activity among each people.4 However, before describing our research…
Editorial Comment
…addition they take prejudice barriers into account. Note that for practical reasons it simply isn’t convenient to adhere strictly to the theory behind the IMB’s analysis. Several departures must be taken into account: Country boundaries often divide groups. Eight hundred peoples in Africa live on both sides of some political…
What is the Church?
…ategy that some missionary has used in outreach to Hindus in India. In other words, they think the title is prescriptive rather than descriptive. Actually, this book is primarily describing people who long to follow Jesus but not within established forms of Christianity. (We actually considered changing the title to…
Giving According to Our Western Expectations?
…aid when they left: “We really don’t mind “losing” 400 of the 4,000 churches we have there. We will see new churches planted—the Church is growing! The bigger concern is that these 400 churches will stop growing now that their model for growth is one they cannot duplicate." Underlying this…
A People Reborn
…aid that the higher the standard of Christianity achieved by the first groups to become Christian, the more influential is their example. Keysser, the objective thinker, saw this.… Forming a True Congregation [Another reason] why missiologists will profit from this book is Keysser’s determined emphasis on the privilege and duty…
Pursuing Faith, Not Religion
…address. As long as we fear something that is inevitable, however, we are in bondage. I remember the words of one field missionary who was studying with us, “Until I stopped worrying about syncretism, I could not properly think about contextualization.” Our advice to national leaders (and to missionaries), then,…