Persecution: Prelude to Revival
At 2:00 one morning in Jakarta, Indonesia, a mob of approximately 400 Muslims surrounded the house church of one of our church planters. When he peere…
Category: Volume 36 – Issue 2
Open Letter to Robertson McQuilkin
The following two letters are important additions to the discussion of the last year concerning the use of foreign funds to support indigenous mission…
Evangelism as Overflow
In the realm of persuasion, we take great comfort in the concepts of friendship evangelism, friend raising (for missionary support), and modeling the …
A Special Book Review: God at War, by Gregory Boyd
The Bible and Spiritual Conflict: A demon behind every bush?
Evangelism from the Book of Acts
Christians have often assumed that evangelism means verbally sharing the entire saving gospel message with a person. But reading the Book of Acts, one…
The China Challenge: New Lenses for a New Millennium
In China, over the past two decades or so, we have witnessed God’s work among people who have remained faithful throughout some of the toughe…
Ministry in China: Focusing on What We Can Do, Not On What We Can’t
China is an enchanting country, and a country ripe for the gospel, so foreign service organizations and mission groups continue to recruit people to g…
Bridging the Gulf Between Christians in China
Since 1981, when I first began to visit China on a regular basis, I endeavored to understand the political situation, to get the right perspective, an…
Confronting Cults on World Mission Fields
From Central Asia, an evangelical missionary asks a Western parachurch agency for help. His problem: Whenever a Muslim converts to Christ, he or she i…