EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 152 of 160 · 3,835 in all.
Latin American Survey: What Impelled Them to the Field?
Where are missionary candidates coming from, and what means does the Holy Spirit use to move them out of their own cultures? Mission boards, field surveys or even previous experience do not provide a satisfactory answer because they represent a past generation.
Latin American Perspective: Perilous Ecumenical Overtures
In preparation for the writing of this paper, many missionary and national leaders who serve the evangelical church in Central America were consulted. Their opinions reflect, in general, the thinking of a large number of Latin American Christians on this important issue.
What Missions Can Learn from the Peace Corps
The average American university student believes Christian missionary service is obsolete, paternal and culturally alien. Conversely, on-campus recruiters tell him that the Peace Corps provides opportunity for service which is relevant, fraternal, and culturally accordant. In the resulting conflict, many…
In-Service Preparation: Language Study and Orientation
At the East Asia Christian Conference meetings in 1964 in Bangkok it was unequivocally stated that, “inasmuch as theresponsibility for in-service preparation rests upon the receiving Churches, it is essential that they accept this responsibility fully. They must provide for adequate language study and also for…
Training Leaders in India: How Jesus Trained the Twelve
The proposed program for developing Christian leadership in India is the program of the Lord Jesus Christ found in the gospels. We shall confine ourselves to His program that developed the twelve apostles to become the first Christian leaders.
Latin American Survey: What Impelled Them to the Field?
Where are missionary candidates coming from, and what means does the Holy Spirit use to move them out of their own cultures? Mission boards, field surveys or even previous experience do not provide a satisfactory answer because they represent a past generation.
Training the New Breed: Jaffray’s Two- Pronged Approach
No part of the world is immune to the startling and accelerating tempo of change. In fact, the sudden exposure of nearly all the world to modern technology, the new ideologies, and the upsurge in literacy and education, plummets in the span of a decade or two whole societies and cultures into complexities which have…
Latin American Perspective: Perilous Ecumenical Overtures
In preparation for the writing of this paper, many missionary and national leaders who serve the evangelical church in Central America were consulted. Their opinions reflect, in general, the thinking of a large number of Latin American Christians on this important issue.
What the Retreat Said about Bible Translations
The following statement was adopted at the joint retreat for mission executives, October, 1968, sponsored by the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association and the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association.
What Has Been the Evangelical Stance, New Delhi to Uppsala?
The Fourth Assembly of the World Council of Churches has come and gone. Uppsala (1968), a small university town in eastern Sweden, has joined Amsterdam (1948), Evanston (1954), and New Delhi (1961) in the unfolding of the Ecumenical Movement.
Joint Protestant- Catholic Translations: Should We or Shouldn’t We?
The EFMA-IFMA executives’ retreat came up with suggestions about cooperating with Roman Catholics in Bible translations. What’s a missionary’s reaction on the field when he’s invited to share in a joint Protestant-Catholic project?
How to Develop Indian Leaders
This discussion is intended to deal with our topic on a practical level. I shall endeavor to suggest a certain modus operandi to meet the great need of true Christian leadership in India.
What the Retreat Said about Bible Translations
The following statement was adopted at the joint retreat for mission executives, October, 1968, sponsored by the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association and the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association.
Joint Protestant- Catholic Translations: Should We or Shouldn’t We?
The EFMA-IFMA executives’ retreat came up with suggestions about cooperating with Roman Catholics in Bible translations. What’s a missionary’s reaction on the field when he’s invited to share in a joint Protestant-Catholic project?
How to Develop Indian Leaders
This discussion is intended to deal with our topic on a practical level. I shall endeavor to suggest a certain modus operandi to meet the great need of true Christian leadership in India.
What Has Been the Evangelical Stance, New Delhi to Uppsala?
The Fourth Assembly of the World Council of Churches has come and gone. Uppsala (1968), a small university town in eastern Sweden, has joined Amsterdam (1948), Evanston (1954), and New Delhi (1961) in the unfolding of the Ecumenical Movement.
How the Pioneers Assaulted the Turks’ Islamic Empire
American missionaries to the Turkish Empire first went to work among Muslims and Jews, and to revive Near Eastern Christians.
Doctor’s Dilemma
The moral and ethical dilemmas posed by advancements in modern medicine are not those of the stateside practitioner alone. It’s not only the doctor at the medical center who puts someone on an artificial kidney who faces them, or the surgeon who selects a patient for an organ transplant, but also the medical…
The Anatomy of the Christian Mission
If it be true that second century Christians sometimes formed themselves into burial clubs in order to achieve a type of organization legal under Roman law, then that fact could give the Czechs, the Basques, and other oppressed minorities today some good ideas on how to run an underground church in an unconventional…
A Bold Move for More Realistic Theological Training
Are some of our American and British structures for ministerial training inadequate for the younger churches? Are the schools on the mission field really facing the social, cultural and spiritual problems that are innate to their soil? Does our theological education effectively aid a virile and effective growth in…
How the Pioneers Assaulted the Turks’ Islamic Empire
American missionaries to the Turkish Empire first went to work among Muslims and Jews, and to revive Near Eastern Christians.
The Anatomy of the Christian Mission
If it be true that second century Christians sometimes formed themselves into burial clubs in order to achieve a type of organization legal under Roman law, then that fact could give the Czechs, the Basques, and other oppressed minorities today some good ideas on how to run an underground church in an unconventional…
Doctor’s Dilemma
The moral and ethical dilemmas posed by advancements in modern medicine are not those of the stateside practitioner alone. It’s not only the doctor at the medical center who puts someone on an artificial kidney who faces them, or the surgeon who selects a patient for an organ transplant, but also the medical…
A Bold Move for More Realistic Theological Training
Are some of our American and British structures for ministerial training inadequate for the younger churches? Are the schools on the mission field really facing the social, cultural and spiritual problems that are innate to their soil? Does our theological education effectively aid a virile and effective growth in…