EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 124 of 160 · 3,822 in all.
Phantom Fathers: Committed to Their Work but Not to Their Families
Q: How extensive is the damage to missionary families because of the husband’s attitude to his work? A: The word “damage” is rather forceful, but it is accurate. The husband who has unbalanced perceptions of his family and ministry responsibilities does damage his family extensively. The damage does not become…
Muslim Misconceptions about Missionary
A study on the distinctives of how Muslim priests and Christian missionaries are perceived in society.
Editor’s Analysis: If We Don’t Shake off the Dust What Do We Do?
One of the great risks missionaries take is to walk blindly into another culture, among Christians who for the most part are too charitable to tell us what we really are like.
Ten Commandments for Missionaries from the Standpoint of National Church Leaders
I. Thou shalt not have any other objectives than the glory of God in building his church overseas. To evangelize is the first step, discipling the next, but the work of the church as described in the New Testament is much greater and requires much more than these final steps.
Following up Youth’s Interest in Missions
Here is the problem. A few of the members of the youth group or the college group return from a short-term or summer missions experience. They are on fire about world missions, and they think that God may be leading them into a career in missions.
Relief and Development Work Is Not Part of the Great Commission
I see a significant trend in Christian activities toward relieving the suffering of the poor in the underdeveloped counties. My concern is not with the desire to relieve suffering, but how does this square with the Great Commission?
A Flawed Attempt to Merge Hindu and Christian Theology
A number of attempts have been made in recent years to shape a Christian theology for the Asian experience. Efforts in this direction have tended toward the accommodation of the Christian faith to Hindu and Buddhist beliefs.
African Literature: Needed but Hard to Get
Christianity is the oldest of the great literary and universal religions that have been in Africa for centuries. Presently, it is believed that the church in Africa is growing at a faster rate than in any other part of the world. Coupled with this comes increasing enrollment figures for the educated section of the…
Contextualization of the Gospel in Taiwan: My Agony
Two months after I graduated from a distinguished theological seminary in the United States in May, 1965, I returned to Taiwan, the Republic of China, with great expectations. I was elated because I had learned solid, conservative, biblical theology under scholarly professors.
Phantom Fathers: Committed to Their Work but Not to Their Families
Q: How extensive is the damage to missionary families because of the husband’s attitude to his work? A: The word “damage” is rather forceful, but it is accurate. The husband who has unbalanced perceptions of his family and ministry responsibilities does damage his family extensively. The damage does not become…
The Homogeneous Unit Principle: Another Perspective
As one follows the debate on the subject of the homogeneous unit principle, one cannot help but wonder if it is more academic than real. That is, are missionaries doing anything differently from what they did 25 to 40 years ago, before the term came into vogue?
Editor’s Analysis: Missions Persuaders
By and large, if you’re a missionary motivator, you can take one of two routes. You can either point to the great progress the church has made in fulfilling the Great Commission, or you can point to the vast multitudes who have yet to hear the name of Christ.
The Works of a Local Church and How to Start One
What do we mean when we speak of the “churches” in North Africa and elsewhere on the mission fields of the world?
If I Could Repeat My First Term
“Salamat datang.” These were the first Indonesian words we heard as we set our feet on Indonesian soil in January, 1970. “Happy welcome” came the ready translation of our missionary colleagues.
Mission Funding in the 1980s
On April 7, 1981 eight foreign mission agencies met in Chicago under the auspices of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability.
Wanted: Mission Administrators
The square pegs are missionaries and the round holes are the positions into which they are being forced.
Melanesian Millenarian Movements
The first big question we face when we some to the subject of Melanesian millenarian movements is to know what terminology we should use in designating such movements.
The Homogeneous Unit Principle: Another Perspective
As one follows the debate on the subject of the homogeneous unit principle, one cannot help but wonder if it is more academic than real. That is, are missionaries doing anything differently from what they did 25 to 40 years ago, before the term came into vogue?
Editor’s Analysis: Missions Persuaders
By and large, if you’re a missionary motivator, you can take one of two routes. You can either point to the great progress the church has made in fulfilling the Great Commission, or you can point to the vast multitudes who have yet to hear the name of Christ.
The Works of a Local Church and How to Start One
What do we mean when we speak of the “churches” in North Africa and elsewhere on the mission fields of the world?
If I Could Repeat My First Term
“Salamat datang.” These were the first Indonesian words we heard as we set our feet on Indonesian soil in January, 1970. “Happy welcome” came the ready translation of our missionary colleagues.
Mission Funding in the 1980s
On April 7, 1981 eight foreign mission agencies met in Chicago under the auspices of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability.
Wanted: Mission Administrators
The square pegs are missionaries and the round holes are the positions into which they are being forced.
Melanesian Millenarian Movements
The first big question we face when we some to the subject of Melanesian millenarian movements is to know what terminology we should use in designating such movements.