EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 11 of 160 · 3,835 in all.
The Number One Strategy for Reaching the Lost
By Chris Ruge | More than 100,000 people will die, today, without knowing Jesus. What can we do in response? There is nothing more powerful and more effective we can do to impact the lost and unreached masses around the world for all eternity than to pray.
Great Commission Prayer
By Heather Pubols | Prayer is the power and foundation of any and all participation in God’s mission. And it is as significant a part of the Great Commission as any strategies devised, or work performed.
The Promise of the Open Generation
By Daniel Copeland and Alyce Youngblood | In Barna’s largest generational study to date, we contemplated what it means to minister to and mobilize Gen Z, at a global or local level. The data we’ve gathered on global teens led us to a promising example that teens themselves seem to be setting: to be open.
Inviting Gen Z to Serve
By Amanda Roozeboom | Short-term missions trips that are thoughtfully planned and executed can be an important way to welcome Gen Z into missions.
A Balanced Framework
By Tim Crouch with Mark and Cinda Wood | Teams working in cross-cultural contexts face formidable challenges. The balanced framework provides focus areas to help leaders and teams thrive, achieve mission, sustain their efforts and see vision realized.
Transforming Frames of Marginalization
By John Trotter | To what degree has society’s frame of reference on disability shaped the Church, ministries, and perceptions of who is or isn’t qualified for mission? How do we move people with disabilities from recipients to participants in God’s Mission?
Mobilizing Gen Z – A Biblical Theology
By Kyle Benner | The calling of Simon Peter, as found in Luke 5:1–11, demonstrates Jesus Christ’s recruitment strategy. By studying Jesus’s approach, we can learn principles that can help us increase Gen Z’s engagement in missions.
Go Digital Before It’s Too Late
By Andrew Feng and Nick Wu | Many missions organizations face two significant problems: limited capacity and ineffective stewardship. Embracing a digital transformation is a key to overcoming these challenges. The first digital native generation – Generation Z – can play an essential part in helping organizations…
Do Missions Conferences Matter?
By Evi Rodemann | Missions conferences around the world have played an important part in mobilising young people into long-term missions service. But as we consider ways to mobilise today’s young people – Gen Z – we need to consider tools to measure events that will help improve their long-lasting effectiveness.
Gen Z and Global Missions: Allies or Enemies
By Ruth Hubbard | Gen Z has several positive and negative characteristics that may affect their willingness and motivation to engage in global missions service. How do we help develop them into allies of global missions rather than enemies?
Three Strategies for Engaging Gen Z in Missions
By Jolene Erlacher | The people who comprise Gen Z in North America are growing up in a post-Christian society. This poses a significant challenge for North American mission agencies which are recruiting the next generation of missionaries. However, by embracing new mobilization strategies, we can seize this…
Diffusion of Youth Ministry
By Anthony J. Gryskiewicz | Ministry to teenagers in continental Europe is less developed than in other parts of the world. While Western and Northern Europe report robust youth participation, youth ministry seems underdeveloped in Central and Eastern Europe. Noting that there are global commonalities to youth…
Paul’s Ministry in Greece as a Paradigm for Our Ministry Among Gen Z
By Hélder Favarin | Paul sermons in the book of Acts provide five lessons for ministry among Gen Z in any global context: multigenerational leadership, contextualization, apologetics, influencing the Areopagus, and dialogue and proclamation.
What Research Reveals about Generation Z
By Patricia Savage | As we at OneHope researched characteristics of Gen Z youth across the world, we discovered they have much in common. While nominal faith made little difference to their shared struggles, a commitment to Christ did. Our research indicates key ways we can close the gap to help more young people…
Helping Generation Z Flourish and be Catalysts for God’s Mission
By René and Sarah Breuel with Mary Tindall | When we thoughtfully engage younger generations in a whole story gospel, we can accept them where they are while also helping them grow into who God created them to be. At the same time, recognizing the strengths they bring into Christian community and missions prepares us…
Bringing Open Hearts to Engage Generation Z
By James Choung with Mary Tindall | Generational theory helps us understand generations as distinct cultures. This demystifies how we can effectively engage Generation Z in the gospel and mission.
Engaging Gen Z in the Gospel and Mission
By Heather Pubols | Gen Z is the first digital native and post-Christian generation. What does this mean as missionaries worldwide seek to develop transformative relationships with the next generation? How do we effectively engage Gen Z with the gospel and mission?
Invaluable Investment: Counting the Complex Costs of Bible Translation
By Mart Green | The translated Word of God is regarded as one of the greatest evangelizing tools in existence. But while the results of Bible translation are undeniable, the task is an enormous undertaking with tremendous challenges and costs. Bible translation projects are complex and varied, however three primary…
The New Testament is Not Enough
By Peter Yuh Kimeng | Many language communities around the world that only have the New Testament are asking for the Old Testament, but resources to do this are scarce. However, for the New Testament to be fully understood and enculturated, translating the Old Testament must be prioritized.
Global Mobilization – What Is the Spirit Saying?
By Ryan Shaw | The global Church is on the cusp of an explosion of focused mobilization across denominations, organizations, and individual local ministries. To see this realized, every believer and local ministry needs to be empowered and released to do what is already in their hearts.
A Twenty-First Century Challenge for North American Mission Agencies
By Sheryl Takagi Silzer | North American mission executives and missionaries are often unaware of the extent to which individualism has shaped their social interactions, organizational structures, and gospel presentations. Understanding this is critical for connecting well with the collectivist cultures of most of…
Rethinking Orality
By Trevor Yoakum | Oral strategies represented a breakthrough in mission work. However, if orality is to continue to make a meaningful contribution to global mission advance, we must remain abreast of the latest scholarship and reflect this awareness in our mission strategies.
8 Lessons Learned in 80 Years of Bible Translation
By Jennifer Holloran | Much has changed since Wycliffe Bible Translators was founded in 1942. But our calling has remained the same – to help people encounter God through his Word in a language and form they can clearly understand.
Equipping the Church for Church-Centric Bible Translation
By Natalia Piroshenko and Sofia Ivanov with Lincoln Brunner | When local churches own and run Bible translation projects, communities of believers experience spiritual growth in the way that the early church did. It facilitates greater transformation and makes the gospel available faster to everyone in community.