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Rethinking Christ and Culture: A Post-Christendom Perspective
In this book, Carter advances the thesis that we must move from a Christendom to a post-Christendom way of thinking about the Christ and culture problem.
Reconstructing Christianity in China: K. H. Ting and the Chinese Church
Wickeri’s biography of Bishop K.H. Ting combines research in Chinese and English, close reading of Ting’s extensive writing, and several personal interviews with Bishop Ting.
Pilgrims of Christ on the Muslim Road: Exploring a New Path Between Two Faiths
This book is based on the life and ministry of Syrian novelist Mazhar Mallouhi, a self-proclaimed “Sufi Muslim follower of Christ.”
Missions in Contexts of Violence
A collection of instructive essays and case studies.
In the Name of Jesus: Exorcism among Early Christians
Third in a series of books by Twelftree on exorcism.
How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity
Oden makes a plea for a growing generation of young African scholars to discover their heritage, to recover the spiritual and intellectual roots of Christian thought formed by early African Christianity.
Christian Worship Worldwide: Expanding Horizons, Deepening Practices
Essays on the worship revelation taking place in today’s global world.
A Proverbial Gold Mine
In this installment of Missions on the Web, we provide you with access to proverbs from around the world.
What Are Best Practices of Church Planting among Muslims?
“Is there any hope in reaching Muslims for Christ when there are so many obstacles?”
Transforming Chaos into Beauty: Intentionally Developing Unity in Church Plants
A unified church-planting community will have both high relationship cohesiveness and high task cohesiveness.
The Sharia of God: A Contextual Bridge for Islamic Contexts
By identifying themselves as people who love and follow the Sharia of God, missionaries ministering to Muslims can better communicate the Christian faith and disciple those who seek to follow Jesus.
A Response to Dual Allegiance
The author investigates the underlying causes of dual allegiance—and offers biblical responses to eight situations where dual allegiance is commonplace.
Good-to-Great Church Planting: The Road Less Travelled
Exploring the regions beyond simply successful church planting and explaining how church planting can rise to become great in nature.
A Lesson from Jose: Understanding the Patron/Client Relationship
Aside from the discipling/mentoring aspect, there are at least four arenas in which a proper understanding of patronage will have an impact on the effectiveness of missionary service.
Discerning When We Have Completed What God Has Assigned to Us
Five ways to discern when a missionary assignment is coming to an end.
Missionary Burnout: Who is Adequate for These Things?
Speaking from experience, the author shares how missionaries and leaders can identify burnout—and offers five steps to recovery.
The Need for Field-based Counselor Training in Evangelical Missions
While Christian counseling has grown in North America, this is not the case in other parts of the world. Bowen discusses field-based training for nationals in Christian counseling today.
Coaching for On-field Development
It is time mission leaders rethink how they help missionaries develop. Coaching is one answer to effectively developing missionaries on the field.
Building Sustainable Funding in Eurasia
Coming up with models for funding parachurch organizations that work in Eurasian cultures will take creativity, hard work, and failed attempts.
Our Reader’s Write
Contrasting Worldviews In reading Leanne Dzubinski’s “Contrasting Worldviews and Their Implications for Missions in Spain” (January 2008), I am impressed with the parallels between issues regarding flexibility and adaptation for effectiveness in missions in Spain and similar principles of contextualizing of a messenger in any North African or Middle Eastern context.
Evangelical Mission Values
Four constant values have reliably guided the evangelical movement’s practice of mission: compulsion, courage, certainty, and clarity.
When Charity Destroys Dignity: Overcoming Unhealthy Dependency in the Christian Movement
Schwartz writes from field experience and more than twenty years of doing seminars on “dependency.”
Spreading Fires: The Missionary Nature of Early Pentecostalism
In this book, Allan Anderson seeks to identify the essential characteristics that produced the unprecedented worldwide growth of Pentecostalism by analyzing its origins.
Secret Believers: What Happens When Muslims Believe in Christ
This takes Western Christians into the lives of Christians and Muslim Background Believers (MBBs) in the Middle East.