Loving the Church, Blessing the Nations
Local churches today are reassessing their proper function in fulfilling the mission mandate in relation to that of mission agencies. Addressing this …
Category: Volume 40 – Issue 1
Cat and Dog Theology
A dog says, “You pet me, you feed me, you shelter me, you love me, you must be God.” A cat says, “You pet me, you feed me, you shelter me, you l…
Changes at Home
The state of missions engagement among evangelical churches in North America is changing.
Maximum Impact Short-term Missions
Peterson, Aeschliman and Sneed take the whole wild and woolly world of short-term missions (STM) and define, defend, and redesign it.
The Search for the Golden Key
The world of evangelists and missionaries is beset by golden keys of various shapes and sizes. They offer short cuts to success. This article attempts…
Building Strategic Relationships: A Practical Guide to Partnering with Non-Western Missions
Daniel Rickett examines partnerships between Western churches and their international counterparts.
Strategic Issues in Missions—An Asian Perspective
Asia, with some 3.7 billion people and less than nine percent of whom are Christians, clearly needs the gospel. But we cannot go on doing things in th…
Signs Amid the Rubble: The Purposes of God in Human History
The late Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998) was one of the most important and influential missionary-theologians of the twentieth century. We are grateful t…
Is Medicine Not Enough?
Today, I am concerned for missionaries in service-type ministries who must satisfy supporting churches and justify their financial support by adding o…