EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 137 of 160 · 3,835 in all.
The Bicentennial and Missions
This being our first issue of the bicentennial year, perhaps it is well to consider the bicentennial in the perspective of missions. What can a missionary do to celebrate 1776 in 1976?
The Adjustments Required of a Missionary in Japan
Here is a down-to-earth commentary on what the missionary faces in Japan. The insights shared will also be of help to others trying to adapt to new cultural situations.
The Conflict of the Gospel and Culture in China– W. A. P. Martin’s Answer
The pages of history reveal an intense struggle among early China missionaries over the ancestor cult, Confucianiam, and emperor worship. This author discusses one controversial approach, which is pertinent to efforts of missionaries today to make the gospel culturally relevant.
My Crisis in Theological Education
Dear friend, This is an S.0.S.! I have tried so hard to communicate with my professor but…! I am about to explode with frustration. Can you advise me? Enclosed are all the items of correspondence that have gone between us.
The Challenge to Make Extension Education Culturally Relevant
Is extension education more culturally relevant than residence education? This anthropologist exposes the “myth” that it necessarily is, while making observations that will serve to strengthen both extension and residence education.
Global Report
MANIPULATED MISSIONS Some foreign governments, especially anti-Western ones, for years have accused missionaries of being spies. Reports now coming to light substantiate these charges in some instances. Although the practice has virtually ceased, the implication of these reports may place the entire missionary effort…
The Bicentennial and Missions
This being our first issue of the bicentennial year, perhaps it is well to consider the bicentennial in the perspective of missions. What can a missionary do to celebrate 1776 in 1976?
Who Really Sent the First Missionaries?
Some time ago I read in the pages of a mission magazine that came to my desk an amazing statement. The writer was emphasizing his “conviction that the church, not the mission board, is the sending agency.”
Summer Missionaries — Are They Worth It?
With proper planning, even shirt assignments can be fruitful and young people can be recruited as career missionaries.
Pastoral Care Lacking in East African Churches
The pastoral ministry among East African churches is inadequate and misdirected, says this author. He examines the problem and proposes some solutions.
A Dropout Syndrome You Can Overcome
The word “dropout” can render service in any number of contexts. Most likely it will take you an additional three paragraphs to plug in, or should I say “drop in” to this writer’s use of the term.
How Much Should You Tell?
How much objective truth, so to speak, can you really tell your supporting constituency at home?
Who Really Sent the First Missionaries?
Some time ago I read in the pages of a mission magazine that came to my desk an amazing statement. The writer was emphasizing his “conviction that the church, not the mission board, is the sending agency.”
Summer Missionaries — Are They Worth It?
With proper planning, even shirt assignments can be fruitful and young people can be recruited as career missionaries.
Pastoral Care Lacking in East African Churches
The pastoral ministry among East African churches is inadequate and misdirected, says this author. He examines the problem and proposes some solutions.
A Dropout Syndrome You Can Overcome
The word “dropout” can render service in any number of contexts. Most likely it will take you an additional three paragraphs to plug in, or should I say “drop in” to this writer’s use of the term.
How Much Should You Tell?
How much objective truth, so to speak, can you really tell your supporting constituency at home?
New Shape of Colombia Demands Sensitive Missionaries
In Colombia we are preaching the gospel in an atmosphere of change. In order to speak with effect to our hearers, it is necessary to understand what is happening to them and to adapt ourselves to present realities.
Plan for the Church’s Leadership Needs
Contemporary missiologists are transforming long-felt concerns for church growth and leadership training into systematic plans for action.
Europe — a Look at the Past to Understand Conditions Now
An estimated 160 million people in Europe make no profession of religion. Among those who still claim allegiance to Christianity there are few who take their religion seriously.
Christian Conduct in Situations of Conflict
In terms of policy development, there are certain areas that are more conspicuous by their absence than anything else.
What’s the Best Way to Work in Europe?
I hope that the following information will at least serve to stimulate those who intend to begin church-planting work first of all to investigate more thoroughly the situation in the respective countries.
Editorial: ‘If One Member Suffers . . .’
The dreadful events of recent weeks in Cambodia and Vietnam hang heavy on our hearts as we prepare this issue. Somehow, the academic debates of missionary work pale into insignificance when we are faced with the stark reality of oppression, persecution and martyrdom on massive scales.
New Shape of Colombia Demands Sensitive Missionaries
In Colombia we are preaching the gospel in an atmosphere of change. In order to speak with effect to our hearers, it is necessary to understand what is happening to them and to adapt ourselves to present realities.