EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 21 of 160 · 3,835 in all.
Spirituality of Roland Allen
J. D. Payne
Accounting Concepts and Basic Practices in Missionary Work
Denise Dickins and Leslie Turner
International Crisis Situations: Preparing and Responding
Theresa Sidebotham, Esq. and Jessica Ross, Esq.
Ubuntu and Missionary Leadership Development in Africa
C. Bryan Davis
Biblical Missional Prayer: 5 Focused New Testament Prayers for the Church
Yakup Korkmaz
Factors Affecting Asian Americans in Missions: The AAIM Survey
David Narita
The House Church and World Missions: A Case Study
Leanne M. Dzubinski, Jacqueline Parke, and Christa L. McKirland
The High Calling of Senders
Pam Arlund and Peggy Spiers
Introducing Story-Strategic Methods
Robert Strauss
Giving Honor: A Key to Fruitful Cross-Cultural Partnerships
Werner Mischke
Network Leaders: New Mission Leadership for a Globalized Church
Kärin Butler Primuth
A Missionary Thanksgiving Day Prayer
Canadian Thanksgiving is Monday, October 8; American Thanksgiving is Thursday, November 22. These holidays present the ideal opportunity for those of us serving as missionaries to pause and thank the Lord for the blessing of His call on our lives.
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.” He added that according to the book of Acts, “the church at Antioch accepted responsibility for the Apostle…
Ralph D. Winter: The Entrepreneurial Mobilizer
Most people who know something about the late missiologist Ralph Winter, know about his Lausanne 1974 plenary address on unreached peoples (Winter 1975). Some know him from his reinvigorating the discussion about church and mission structures—which he called Sodalities and Modalities (Winter 1974). Still others know…
A Re-Focus on the Local Church: Media Collaboration in the Middle East
Ultimately it is the church on the ground, the local community of believers, that is the critical expression of Christ’s love and power in the world. Made up of individuals who have personally placed their faith in Him, this bride of Christ must be the final basis for evaluating our efforts in evangelism. Scripture…
Innovations in Mobilization Collaboration
Uber, iPhones, Airbnb, Netflix, and Amazon. The list goes on. Disruptive innovations are taking over traditional North American industries. The missions realm also needs consistent creative effective new ways for how we activate, recruit, and onboard new workers. The environment is ripe for unprecedented…
Prayer: Our Greatest Task in Mobilization
A few years ago, my daughter texted me while she and her husband were traveling and praying about their future. She asked, “Dad, why does Christar require one hundred daily prayer partners for those who are serving long term?”
ONLY vs. Primary and Secondary: The Key to the Missionary Motivation Problem
In 1900, Andrew Murray tackled the key question to the missionary problem as to why there were so few missionaries. In his report to the ecumenical missionary conference held in New York in April, he thought the answer was simple; it was the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Though I totally agree, I think there is much more…
Rites of Passage: Building a Mobilization Team in Your Church
Rites of Passage is a foreign concept to most evangelical churches, literally and figuratively. Somewhere along the way, the local church has lost this important value. Rites of passage are still common among institutions like fraternities and sororities, military and civic organizations. A few church traditions have…
Mobilizing Movements
The Global Mobilization Network (GMN) believes mobilization is essential to calling the whole Church to committed participation in reaching the whole world.
Mobilizing God’s People for God’s Mission
In December 2015, more than two hundred forty leaders involved in mission mobilization from more than thirty countries gathered in Nairobi, Kenya for the second Global Mobilization Consultation (GMC). To better welcome many different kinds and styles of mobilization and mobilizers, this paper was written before the…
The Mobilization Index: Connecting the Global Church to the Unreached
Information is powerful. We’ve all experienced moments where the discovery of a particular piece of information has radically shifted the direction of our lives. Many of us in the mission community had our lives transformed when we discovered the theme of God’s global mission that runs from Genesis to Revelation. The…
Mobilization: The Fourth (and Final?) Era of the Modern Mission Movement
Hindsight is always 20/20 and peering into the rearview mirror of missions history, attempting to see it from God’s perspective, is a formidable, but exhilarating, endeavor. One modern thinker who has done a stellar job of helping us understand when, where, and how God has been at work over the centuries is…
Awakening One Hundred Sleeping Firemen
This edition of EMQ is devoted to the critical topic of mission mobilization, and for good reason. It is said that if one generation of believers fails to wholeheartedly engage in missions, the link to the next will be broken, and eventually the entire movement could collapse. However, the reality is more pressing…