EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 138 of 160 · 3,835 in all.
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.
Hope for Those Who Haven’t Heard? Yes, But..
The Bible gives us evidence about the basis on which those who have never heard of Christ will be judged. We have sufficient light on the matter– not to stop us from going but to show us what our responsibility is.
Six Ways Every Missionary Can Teach
Every missionary is called to invest his life in the lives of others. Teaching and training are the fulfillment of this calling.
Out of a Job at 56— the Story of a New Assignment
Admittedly, it’s not easy to change jobs at age 56, but I had no choice.
Survey Tests Reactions to Mission’s Structural Change
The Community of Latin American Evangelical Ministries (CLAMS) was born of the deep awareness that if the Latin America Mission was to truly realize its goal of becoming an arm of the Latin American church, radical structural change was in order.
Missionaries and Missions Can Salt the Soup Too Much
One of the virtually unquestioned axioms of missionary orientation through the years has been that an effective missionary must constantly strive to “identify with the nationals.”
Reaching Jews through Messianic Synagogues
It is not surprising that the term “messianic Judaism” is frequently heard these days. Almost half the Jews in the world live in the United States, and even rabbis admit that large numbers of American Jews are turning to Jesus now.
Editorial: The Unexpected Turnaround
One of the unexpected turnarounds in foreign missions in recent years has been the striking renewal of missionary interest among young people. Five or six years ago students were being written off as far as missions were concerned.
Hope for Those Who Haven’t Heard? Yes, But..
The Bible gives us evidence about the basis on which those who have never heard of Christ will be judged. We have sufficient light on the matter– not to stop us from going but to show us what our responsibility is.
Six Ways Every Missionary Can Teach
Every missionary is called to invest his life in the lives of others. Teaching and training are the fulfillment of this calling.
Out of a Job at 56— the Story of a New Assignment
Admittedly, it’s not easy to change jobs at age 56, but I had no choice.
Survey Tests Reactions to Mission’s Structural Change
The Community of Latin American Evangelical Ministries (CLAMS) was born of the deep awareness that if the Latin America Mission was to truly realize its goal of becoming an arm of the Latin American church, radical structural change was in order.
Missionaries and Missions Can Salt the Soup Too Much
One of the virtually unquestioned axioms of missionary orientation through the years has been that an effective missionary must constantly strive to “identify with the nationals.”
Reaching Jews through Messianic Synagogues
It is not surprising that the term “messianic Judaism” is frequently heard these days. Almost half the Jews in the world live in the United States, and even rabbis admit that large numbers of American Jews are turning to Jesus now.
Editorial: The Unexpected Turnaround
One of the unexpected turnarounds in foreign missions in recent years has been the striking renewal of missionary interest among young people. Five or six years ago students were being written off as far as missions were concerned.
Editorial: A Moratorium on Missions?
October 15, 1969, was “Moratorium Day” all across the United States. A wide variety of veterans groups, student organizations and impromptu gatherings protested the war in Viet Nam, calling for an immediate moratorium on the war. That day I was scheduled to speak in chapel at a Christian college.
Writing for New Readers Demands Special Skills
Writing for adult unskilled readers, like writing for children, is a highly demanding skill.
How One Tribe Got its Own Music
If you had been there, you would have seen three missionary families gathered together around a campfire singing joyously the hymns that they’d sung so often before. Listening in, you would have heard the mellow whining of a harmonica and the accompaniment of an accordion.
Ethnomusicology: A New Frontier
One of the greatest challenges today in world evangelism is the fact that Christianity is still considered “the white man’s religion” by hundreds of millions of people. To accept Christ as their Savior, non-whites around the world may think they would have to be disloyal to their people and to their own culture.
We Can Help Russian Believers
From a safe distance of 1700 years Christians enjoy identifying with the Christian martyrs of the first three centuries. Sunday school teachers shock their children with hair-raising accounts of how Christians were fed to the lions in the Colosseum.