How Westernized Is Japan?
The mistake is easy enough to make. The hotel is comfortable, familiar. Outside, floods of new cars, smog, some skyscrapers, good restaurants, all ove…
Category: Volume 8 – Issue 4
Foreign Missions and Theological Education: Taiwan, a Case Study
I. THE CHURCH IN CRISIS During the twenty-five years following World War II, most countries in Asia underwent drastic transformations. The …
Four Crises in Third World Theological Education
The church in the Third World is awakening to the fact that some of the models imported by missionaries from their sending countries are failing to me…
A Contemporary Concept
Once upon a time there was a wonderful, wonderful club. It was called The Membership Club. The only purpose for its existence was to gain more memb…
Are Indigenous Church Principles Outdated?
In recent months questions have arisen about the validity of indigenous church principles in relation to modern missionary work.
The Significance of the Extension Seminary
Especially within the realm of evangelical missions, many eyes are turned toward an intriguing phenomenon: the "extension seminary" for short—more p…
A Bible Training Course for Professional People
Have you ever wondered how missionaries can train a professional person in the Word of God? In Buenos Aires, Argentina, twenty years ago a Bible insti…
Laymen: Key to Church Growth in Italy
In Europe and North America it is customary for churches to support a full-time professional pastor. It is natural for missionaries coming out of this…