EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 22 of 160 · 3,822 in all.
Cross-Cultural Apologizing: Considering Form and Function
In evangelism, church planting, and community development, missionaries are bound to accidentally hurt feelings and offend some people. Restoring relationships often requires apologizing. Outsiders often fail with their apologies by using forms from their home culture that don’t work in the target culture. They…
Members onlyLeading Mission Movements
We live in an unprecedented period of mission history. The new paradigm of “from anywhere to everywhere” is by nature complex, resulting in an increasing need to partner with others for effective ministry. The challenge of connecting with potential partners in the global context is best done in and through the…
Partnerships and the Strategic Role of Networks
We live in an unprecedented period of mission history. The new paradigm of “from anywhere to everywhere” is by nature complex, resulting in an increasing need to partner with others for effective ministry. The challenge of connecting with potential partners in the global context is best done in and through the…
Not on Our Watch: Three Distractions from Fulfilling the Great Commission
In the 1980s, young American evangelicals were optimistic about seeing the Great Commission fulfilled in our generation. The extension of the gospel over the previous decades was nothing short of miraculous. Stories of the faith of 19th and early 20th century missionaries like William Carey, Hudson Taylor, and CT…
The Reality of Realities
This month marks 40 years since my wife and I, along with our 18-month-old son, boarded a plane for the south Pacific to launch our missionary career. That “career” has subsequently taken me from being a long-term field missionary on an undeveloped island, to being a regional director for East Asia, then on to…
Voices from the Past: Confusion Concerning the Great Commission
by David J. Hesselgrave
Members onlyRise Up Church – for Children and Youth!
by Dave Meyers
“It Shall be Done!” The Important Role of Prayer in Christian Mission
by Sung Bauta
Three Surveys of Aspiring Missionaries: Draws and Concerns in Deciding to Become a Long-term Missionary
by Megan R. Brown and John W. McVay
“We Reap on Zion’s Hill”: Adoniram Judson’s Heavenly-Minded Spirituality
by Evan Burns
New Lenses for Seeing Team Conflict
by Jeff Singfiel
A Biblical Theology of Partnership in Mission
by Atul Y. Aghamkar, PhD
Discipleship in Christendom … and Beyond
by Gerald L. Sittser and Carlos Calderon
International Day for the Unreached
an interview by EMQ
Is “Missions” One More Casualty of Postmodern Wordplay?
by Denny Spitters & Matthew Ellison
Movement Maturity and Missionary Participation
by Craig Ott
Members onlyMissionary Faith
by Marvin Newell
The MisLinks Story
Special Note Little did Mike and I know that when he wrote this piece it would be his final one for our MisLinks column. Mike…
Theology and Practice of Mission: God, the Church, and the Nations
Bruce Riley Ashford, editor. B&H Academic, 127 Ninth Avenue North, MSN 114 Nashville, TN 37234, 2011, 352 pages, $25.99. —Reviewed by William Taylor, senior mentor,…
Introducing Cultural Anthropology: A Christian Perspective
—Reviewed by Douglas Hayward , professor of anthropology and intercultural studies at Biola University’s Cook School of Intercultural Studies.
Members onlyWhen Endings Lead to Opportunities: Lessons from the Closing of Global Mapping International
The words “The End” immediately conjure up the last page of a book we simply haven’t been able to put down. There is nothing that comes after “The End.” It falls of the page into the unknown and so we avoid thinking about endings much.
Members onlyMutually Transformative Power of the Gospel Through Medicine in China
I n the Gospel of Luke, we read the account of a young Jesus who went to the temple in Jerusalem, and sat with the teachers “both listening and asking them questions” (Luke 2:46). After his parents found him in the temple, Jesus returned to Nazareth with them. Luke described Jesus’ growth in the following way: “And…
Walking Through ‘Samaria’: Incarnational Gospel Witness in Mexico
W hen Jesus gave his disciples the Great Commission, he told them they would be his witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. The Book of Acts narrates the progression of the Early Church from Jerusalem to the surrounding towns of Judea and Samaria and later to the outer reaches…
Members onlyThe Latin America Missionary Family: Challenges and Blessings
I n order to better understand the reality of the Latin American missionary family, it is necessary that we Latins set aside our tendency to incorporate into our imagination the picture of an Anglo Saxon missionary family. Instead, it is time we work on looking to learn from the life experiences of Latin American…