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God’s Rivals: Why Has God Allowed Different Religions?
This volume’s chief value is found in its summary and analysis of four ante-Nicene Church fathers who dealt with the issue of religious systems in competition with Christianity.
C. Stacey Woods and the Evangelical Rediscovery of the University
This biography of C. Stacey Woods (1909-1983) is the story of how American college and university campuses became both a mission field and a fertile source of thousands of new missionaries.
Contextualization and Syncretism: Navigating Cultural Currents
Discussions of contextualization among evangelicals inevitably provoke a niggling question: How far can we go in making the gospel relevant within human cultures and contexts without giving away too much of the gospel in the process?
Communication, Media, and Identity
This book should be read, absorbed and its insights worked out in all evangelical ministries.
Can It Be Me?
Marjory Foyle has finally written her autobiography, which is great news to those of us who consider ourselves humbled to be her legacy of open and honest struggles and caregiving.
An Introduction to Blogging on the Internet
In this edition of Missions on the Web we provide links to numerous sources to help you enrich your experience with the blog world.
Church Planting Tracking and Analysis Tool
I’d like to introduce a tool that we have found helpful in enabling church planting teams (and their supervisors) to get a snapshot of the team’s progress in the church planting process.
Discovering the Joy of Tithing in Zimbabwe
The common assumption that churches in developing countries will continue to need outside help must increasingly be challenged.
Personal Contact: The sine qua non of Twenty-first Century Christian Mission
Statistics from the World Christian Encyclopedia appear to indicate that less than sixteen percent of non-Christians know a Christian; however, the Bible indicates that personal contact is crucial in evangelism.
Mission-Church Relations in Post-Soviet Central Asia: A Field Study
It is time to make “new mistakes” in church planting and in dealing with indigenous ministries.
Unlocking Worldview as a Means of Empowering Evangelistic Outreach
A veteran of the mission field in Latin America shares how he and others used death rituals to better understand the local people and culture.
Relationships between Native and Non-native English-speakers for Missions
Studying the value of NEST/NNEST relationships in schools that teach English as a foreign language.
The Effectiveness of Defectiveness
An indigenous perspective of how one faithful missionary impacted the lives of many through her obedience.
Lessons from a Merger
Seven lessons learned from the successful merger of AEF and SIM.
Funding a Kingdom Business
Identifying different approaches mission agencies and churches are using to fund “kingdom businesses.”
Beware of <i>Dhimmi </i>Writers
Lessons to learn from the way Christian writers have reacted to Muslims and the Islamic faith.
Why Muslims Are Repelled by the Term Son of God
When witnessing to Muslims, it is crucial to take into account critical stumbling blocks, especially the use of the term “Son of God.”
The Ministry of Presence—Just Show Up!
We are an oral culture in Africa. This calls for face-to-face contact.
Letting Go and Hanging On
One of the hallmarks of missionary life is tenacity and perseverance in the task.
Our Readers Write
Identity Theft With disappointment, we read Roger Dixon’s article, “Identity Theft” (April 2007), in which Dixon takes the Indonesian Bible Society (IBS) to task for producing an inaccurate translation of the New Testament.
Reproducible Pastoral Training: Church Planting Guidelines from the Teachings of George Patterson
If you want your thinking about the training of church planters to be stimulated and challenged, here is the book for you.
Reimaging Evangelism: Inviting Friends on a Spiritual Journey
The challenge of communicating the unchanging truths of the gospel is renewed in every generation.
Picturing Christian Witness: New Testament Images of Disciples in Mission
Stanley Skreslet, professor of mission at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, argues in this book that the study of mission should be approached in terms of “images” that are based on the New Testament accounts.
The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative
Christopher Wright’s The Mission of God unpacks a much more audacious proposal: that mission is the basis of the entire Bible.