Urbana’73 Theme Emphasizes Positive View of Missions
Back in 1929 Robert E. Speer wrote a small book, Are Foreign Missions Done For? Students today probe campus missionary speakers with the same question…
Category: Volume 9 – Issue 1
A New Missionary Tells What to Expect
TO YOU WHO WAIT AND WONDER . . . What will it be like? How will I fit in? How can I make sure I am used to utmost effectiveness?
The Danger of a Truncated Missionary Goal
Much more conscious effort needs to be dedicated to clarifying today's missionary objectives than missionary strategists have been willing to invest i…
Pauline Patterns of Church-Mission Relationships
It has been frequently observed that the Bible does not prescribe specific patterns of relationship between mission agencies and national churches. Su…
Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Factors in Missionary Allocation
In working with hundreds of missionary candidates in pre-field orientation programs and several score in field situations, I have come to question whe…
An Equal Partnership Structure
At the Green Lake consultation it looked as though another Lincoln-Douglas debate were shaping up. Dr. Louis King and Dr: George Peters both spoke on …
The Roots of Two Missions Tensions
Missions are faced with restless emergent churches overseas and at the same time are exposed to false theologies in segments of the professing church …
Evangelism and Social Action in Biblical Perspective
Differences of opinion on the subject of evangelism vs. social action are of long standing — so old, in fact, that the roots go back to pre-Christia…