What's moving in missions
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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.
Innovation in Mission: Insights into Practical Innovations Creating Kingdom Impact
Editors Jim Reapsome and Jon Hirst and eleven authors provide twentieth and twenty-first century examples of innovation in world mission.
Globalizing Theology: Belief and Practice in an Era of World Christianity
Mosaic books are always a challenge to read and review, unless they have clear integrators—convergence factors for diverse essays. Globalizing Theology reveals these elements as it grapples with the issues of globalizing theology (faces of contextualization) in a new global arena.
Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome
For centuries, cities have been on the receiving end of a disproportionately small part of mission endeavors, but readers of Rodney Stark’s latest book may have to reconsider the wisdom of this imbalance.
The AIDS Crisis: What We Can Do
From the wrenching opening of Chrub’s induction by her mother into life as a Phnom Penh prostitute to the book’s closing vignette in which Sukunthea and her fellow Way of Hope Church members gently encircle the dying Chrub, the reader of The AIDS Crisis is pressed to respond to AIDS in a more radical way, guided by the life journeys of the authors.
Business as Mission Resources
The blending of business with mission is as old as Paul’s tentmaking work in New Testament times. However, over the past two hundred years many evangelical missions (and churches) have pushed business ventures to the sidelines.
Helping Alumni Advance: Designing a Continuing Education Program
Since Mutiso Mwema graduated from Bible college nine years ago, he has faithfully served as a pastor of local churches where he was assigned by his denominational leadership. Although a few of his former classmates have been given the opportunity to pursue further studies at other colleges or graduate schools, Mutiso has never had the opportunity to further his education.
Is Business as Mission Honest?
Tentmakers who embrace the idea of a Christian vocation can see themselves as Christian business people.
Shame in Spain
Recognition of shame in individualistic cultures such as Spain may be crucial to developing effective strategies for evangelism.
The Road to Delhi: Bishop Pickett Remembered 1890-1981
The Road to Delhi: Bishop Pickett Remembered 1890-1981 is the fruit of Arthur McPhee’s doctoral dissertation at Asbury Theological Seminary.
Reproducing Christians: A Missiological Look at Family Size
Christians who seek to grow churches and to disciple nations must recognize the necessity of reproducing spiritually and biologically.
Confronting the AIDS Crisis in Africa
How one African denomination, the African Inland Church of Kenya, assumed its God-given responsibility in confronting the AIDS crisis in Africa.
Profile of Students Today: Preparing for Missionary Service
What are students like today, and how do we help them consider full-time careers in missions? Ten characteristic of students going into missions today.
The Emerging College Generation and Missions: Issues, Attitudes, Postures and Passions
How do today’s students view missions and cross-cultural service? What do they value? How can we prepare them for global service?
From New Believer to Church Leader: The Value of Intermediate Steps
A disciple on the journey from new believer to leader is in need of the care of a mentor and some unhurried time to grow.
Going the Distance: Adapting Full-time Residential Curricula into Distance Format
How Namibia Evangelical Theological Seminary molded its residential programs and curricula into distance format.
Training Leaders: A Functioning Model for Missionaries
An example of how Church Based Training is being used in Austria, Germany and Switzerland to train local leaders.
Fruit Salad Anyone?
The problem with speaking about “mission” and “service” in the same breath is like the proverbial query of comparing apples and oranges.
Missiology—Good Medicine and a Fourth Leg
I have sometimes joked that like a bowl of fruit, a missiologist is a missionary that has gone bad from spending too much time sitting around tables.
Our Readers Write
Assessing Intercultural Sensitivity I read with interest Dan Sheffield’s article in the January 2007 EMQ (“Assessing Intercultural Sensitivity in Mission Candidates and Personnel”).
Well Connected: Releasing Power, Restoring Hope Through Kingdom Partnerships
Powerful global forces are motivating organizations of many kinds to bridge traditional barriers by attempting new partnerships and alliances. But uncertainties and risks abound. Can these new arrangements really achieve the desired synergies and efficiencies?