EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 134 of 160 · 3,835 in all.
What Happened at Urbana— its Meaning for Missions
Missionaries at Urbana 76 found a new mood among college students regarding missions. The convention’s director looks at reasons for the trend and tells what it means for the future of mission boards.
Global Report
Reports from around the world.
Facing the Problem of Aid to International Students
How much and to whom? These are among the questions missionaries ask when they think about sending national leaders to the U.S. for training. This helpful article analyzes the pertinent data in making these decisions.
A Way out of the Marriage/ Baptism Tangle
Missionaries need to study the Scriptures and the local culture, to find suitable answers to the very complex problems of marriage and baptism. This account tells how this was done in one church in the Dominican Republic.
Women Missionaries: Making More of Their Potential
Missions history bulges with womanly doers, some of whom gained great notoriety. Life magazine’s special bicentennial issue, “Remarkable American Women, 1776-1976,” includes Lottie Moon, a Southern Baptist missionary who went to China in 1873.
What Happened at Urbana— its Meaning for Missions
Missionaries at Urbana 76 found a new mood among college students regarding missions. The convention’s director looks at reasons for the trend and tells what it means for the future of mission boards.
Editorial: Meddling with Fantasies
My sari must have attracted some curiosity, for I was invited to speak to a number of groups about my country. Some had heard of India, some had no idea where it was…
Global Report
Reports from around the world.
Your Prayer Letter Can Be an Effective Communications Tool
Believe it or not, surveys of mission organizations and their publications show that the most vital link between a mission and Christians in the sending church is the individual missionary’s prayer letter.
How to Reach U. S. Ethnic Groups
“The mission field” at home is becoming increasingly responsive to evangelism and church-planting. This article tells how the Southern Baptists have carried out an effective ministry among U.S. ethnic groups.
Editorial: Paul, the Non Professional
“Nonprofessional missionary” scares more than a few professional missionaries. Public appeals for students to consider working in business, education, government or industry overseas – while being a “missionary” on the side – are met with red caution flags by the full-time professional missionaries.
What Missionaries Say in Their Prayer Letters
A few of my students worked through 24 missionary prayer letters. We were searching for attitudes of all kinds that might show up in such letters. Our research was limited to one letter per missionary.
Voting for Field Leaders a Better Way
The sense of God’s leading can be achieved in field elections. Conflicting human appeals can be resolved by spiritual preparation before and during the balloting.
Types of TEE
Here are some warnings and guidelines from one of the early boosters of theological education by extension, who still believes in its potential for development of the church.
Global Report
Reports from around the world.
What Missionaries Say in Their Prayer Letters
A few of my students worked through 24 missionary prayer letters. We were searching for attitudes of all kinds that might show up in such letters. Our research was limited to one letter per missionary.
Your Prayer Letter Can Be an Effective Communications Tool
Believe it or not, surveys of mission organizations and their publications show that the most vital link between a mission and Christians in the sending church is the individual missionary’s prayer letter.
Voting for Field Leaders a Better Way
The sense of God’s leading can be achieved in field elections. Conflicting human appeals can be resolved by spiritual preparation before and during the balloting.
How to Reach U. S. Ethnic Groups
“The mission field” at home is becoming increasingly responsive to evangelism and church-planting. This article tells how the Southern Baptists have carried out an effective ministry among U.S. ethnic groups.
Types of TEE
Here are some warnings and guidelines from one of the early boosters of theological education by extension, who still believes in its potential for development of the church.
Editorial: Paul, the Non Professional
“Nonprofessional missionary” scares more than a few professional missionaries. Public appeals for students to consider working in business, education, government or industry overseas – while being a “missionary” on the side – are met with red caution flags by the full-time professional missionaries.
Taking the Confusion out of the Media Bag
Most missionaries are aware of the increasing array of communications media equipment available. They are in the business of communicating the gospel by any and all means available.
Self- Support: The Missing Leg in the Development of Indigenous Churches
Missionaries have long defined the indigenous church as one that is self-propagating, self-governing, and self-supporting. Envision the indigenous church as a three-legged stool, with the three “selfs” forming the legs.
Editorial: Are Satellites the Answer?
A lot of Christians — missionaries and missions executives among them — are getting satellite fever, not from UFO’s but from globe-circling communications satellites that promise instant communication to any part of the world. What better way to fill the world with the gospel! But is it a better way?