EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 157 of 160 · 3,822 in all.
My Recollections of J. O. Fraser
Tbe prayer meeting at Woosung Road was dismissed, and as the people began to leave, we finally clasped each other’s hands. I had heard of him, but now in the summer of 1927, in Shanghai, at China Inland Mission headquarters, we met. My wife Isobel had made his acquaintance previously in Vancouver, B.C.
Liberty Plus Responsibilty Means Mission Administration
Any mission organization by the very nature of its existence has certain spiritual responsibilities.
Emotional Storm Signals: The Shocks of Culture, Language, Self-Discovery
Culture shock has been described as that emotional disturbance which results from adjustment to new cultural, environment.’ Its cause is the loss of the familiar cues by which we interact in any society.
The Cost of Identification
Identification is a prerequisite for communication. Do we have something to give? Would we like to be open to what others might share with us? Then we must identify with them.
Should More Negro Missionaries Be Used?
Several years ago at the conclusion of a missionary meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, one of the speakers, a white lady missionary from Africa raised a common question:
Liberty Plus Responsibilty Means Mission Administration
Any mission organization by the very nature of its existence has certain spiritual responsibilities.
The Cost of Identification
Identification is a prerequisite for communication. Do we have something to give? Would we like to be open to what others might share with us? Then we must identify with them.
Emotional Storm Signals: The Shocks of Culture, Language, Self-Discovery
Culture shock has been described as that emotional disturbance which results from adjustment to new cultural, environment.’ Its cause is the loss of the familiar cues by which we interact in any society.
Should More Negro Missionaries Be Used?
Several years ago at the conclusion of a missionary meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, one of the speakers, a white lady missionary from Africa raised a common question:
Taking Away the Reproach of Barrenness
Can the barren produce? My wife and I have been compelled to ask ourselves this question again and again during the past year. Upon our return from furlough the field council asked us to staff a barren station.
Perspective on Missionary Loss
Time: July 1948. Place: a deserted street corner in Guatemala City. I could feel the heat of the rough cement sidewalk against my hands and body. In front of me a machine gun rattled and spat out hot empty cartridges that rolled down aimlessly and tumbled into the gutter. I lifted my, face in the acrid air and saw…
Learn to Cope with Stress
The primary missionary health problem in Japan is tension.
Spiritual Dynamics in El Salvador
El Salvador is a tiny Central American republic about 150 miles long and sixty miles wide. It has the densest population of any country in continental America, averaging approximately 300 people’ to the square mile. This condition in itself provides an unusual opportunity for evangelism-people are everywhere.
Perspective on Missionary Loss
Time: July 1948. Place: a deserted street corner in Guatemala City. I could feel the heat of the rough cement sidewalk against my hands and body. In front of me a machine gun rattled and spat out hot empty cartridges that rolled down aimlessly and tumbled into the gutter. I lifted my, face in the acrid air and saw…
Missionary Strategy in the Twentieth Century
The world is a big place. Its population increases fantastically. By the end of the century six thousand million people will be living in the five continents, though the greatest number by far will be living in Asia. In forty years’ time communications will have been improved so that even the most remote areas will…
Is This What Paul Told the Press?
REPORTER: I’ve come from the Antioch Faith Times. We’d like to produce a feature on your missionary society. DIRECTOR: Sit down. I had no idea we were getting in the news. What are you interested in? I’ve got an hour before I meet the converts in Tyrannus’s hall.
Prepare Christians for Revolution!
Revolution is changing our world – how can the Christian meet it? Before attempting an answer to the question, it will be necessary briefly to examine some characteristics of modern revolutionary movements.
Where We Differ over the Message
What is our essential saving message in evangelism? It seems like a foolish question: does not everybody know? Are not all professing Christians pretty well agreed on the message we preach?
Making Literature African
At one time Christian literature with a strong European or American flavor was welcomed in African countries. Christianity was equated with education and progress, and its links with civilized” countries were an advantage.
Training Missionaries for Today’s World
We have laid down the principle that the missionary’s preparation must be commensurate with the task assigned. Further, we have defined the missionary’s task, pointing out its changeless as well as relative aspects. (Evangelical Missions Quarterly, Summer, 1965.) Thus we know the quality of men needed, and we now…
He Also Gets a Penny
For sacrificial and self-denying service, Christ promises a reward. Everyone who has forsaken houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, says the Savior, “shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life (Matt. 19:29).
Missionary Strategy in the Twentieth Century
The world is a big place. Its population increases fantastically. By the end of the century six thousand million people will be living in the five continents, though the greatest number by far will be living in Asia. In forty years’ time communications will have been improved so that even the most remote areas will…
Making Literature African
At one time Christian literature with a strong European or American flavor was welcomed in African countries. Christianity was equated with education and progress, and its links with civilized” countries were an advantage.
Is This What Paul Told the Press?
REPORTER: I’ve come from the Antioch Faith Times. We’d like to produce a feature on your missionary society. DIRECTOR: Sit down. I had no idea we were getting in the news. What are you interested in? I’ve got an hour before I meet the converts in Tyrannus’s hall.