EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 138 of 160 · 3,822 in all.
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.
Why Made-in-U. S. A. Policies Cause Problems
Every foreign missionary has some custom-free mental and emotional baggage that accompanies him in every contact with national Christians and non-Christians. Decisions and actions are often based on his culturally acquired sense of rightness. The effective missionary recognizes this “cultural overhang” and gets…
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.
Why Made-in-U. S. A. Policies Cause Problems
Every foreign missionary has some custom-free mental and emotional baggage that accompanies him in every contact with national Christians and non-Christians. Decisions and actions are often based on his culturally acquired sense of rightness. The effective missionary recognizes this “cultural overhang” and gets…
Global Report
Reports from around the world.
The Lausanne Covenant
We, members of the Church of Jesus Christ, from more than 150 nations, participants in the International Congress On World Evangelization at Lausanne, praise God for his great salvation anal rejoice in the fellowship he has given us with himself and with each other.
Lausanne 74: An African Perspective
It would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for one person to give a thorough coverage of the International Congress on World Evangelization which met in beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland, July 16-25, 1974.
Lausanne 74: As Others Saw It
The impact of the International Congress on World Evangelization will be measured in the future by what develops in the way of a continuing fellowship, by the number of new national and regional fellowships organized, and by the convening of similar congresses in various parts of the world.
Lausanne 74: Strategy and Theological Groups
Practical as well as theological considerations of missions and evangelism were considered in the small group sessions at the International Congress on World Evangelization.
Lausanne 74: National Groups
Participants at the International Congress on World Evangelization came from all 150 countries of the globe, and one of the main purposes of the gathering was to have them meet in national and regional groups for planning ways to evangelize their own countries.