What Is ‘Making Disciples’?
The objective of the Great Commission is thoughtfully analyzed, with narrow and broad definitions. The author holds that disciples in the New Testamen…
Category: Volume 9 – Issue 4
Editorial: Missions Must Commit Themselves to Graduate Training in Africa
If degree-level training is needed in Africa, how can it be developed?
What Do the Gospels Have to Say about Church Growth
When one sets out to write about church growth from the perspective of the four Gospels, he discovers himself confronted by a discomfiting fact: the G…
Black Man’s Burden
At the InterVarsity Urbana 70 missionary conference, George Taylor chided missions because "very, very few" black Christians are represented on missio…
The Incarnation, Cross-cultural Communication and Communication Theory
As pointed out in my preceding article on this subject, the unreflective missionary may easily find himself assigned by the people to whom he goes to …
Forms of Spiritual Isolationism
The cooling off of the church in regard to missions is apparent to observers both within and without.