Church Planting Movement: How God is Redeeming a Lost World
Since Garrison published his booklet, Church Planting Movements, in 2000, missionaries have been longing for more information. If readers only expecte…
Category: Volume 40 – Issue 3
A World Tour of Contextual Theologies
The number and quality of contextualization resources on the Web is constantly growing. Here we concentrate on the element of contextualization most f…
When Things Go Wrong
Ana Silvia got the shock of her life. After five years of teaching the deaf, the young school principal almost lost hope when she discovered her st…
The Pressure to Lie
When I asked missionary colleagues, “What would cause a missionary to be tempted not to be totally honest and transparent?”, two main answers surf…
Managing the Short-term Missions Explosion
Short-term missions has moved from being part of a larger missions vision and instead has become the primary goal of many missions programs. What was …
Telling the Difference
There is a need for more objective criteria to assess when contextualization has crossed the line into syncretism.
A Leadership Model for the Suffering Church
Sebastian (fictitious name) met us soon after the border officials checked all our necessary papers and approved us for entry. For several days, Seba…
Should Christians Use Allah in Bible Translation?
Issues of terminology for God are highly convoluted when working with Muslims in non-Arabic-speaking lands where Christians use alternate terms for Go…
What I Want in a Missionary
I never want to have another missions emphasis week like the one my church endured last year. It was a time of agony as months of planning and effort …
Lifting the Fatwa
I was somewhat shocked to read the following statement by a respected Christian leader who is involved in a controversial approach to Muslim evange…