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…
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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.
Lean, Mean, Extreme and Unseen
Dear Chris, Thanks for your e-mail and your interest in development on the mission field. That excites me. You asked about our philosophy on develo…
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…
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…
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…