EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 23 of 160 · 3,835 in all.
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
Missionary 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.
When 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.
Mutually 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…
The 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…
The Importance of Using Indigenous Languages
Y our language is valuable,” I told the young people gathered at the conference. It was the annual youth event for a particular denomination held in Kenya in August 2016. Around one hundred youth attended. After explaining the value of their language to them, I asked them a question, in answer to which I expected…
Engaging Sinbad City: What Research Shows About God’s Work among Workers in the Muslim World
T he world missions community has spent the past thirty years or so establishing footholds in many parts of the Muslim world. But now, unbeknownst to most of our church friends at home, some of those very cities have hundreds of workers in them.
The Gospel in a Plural World: Interrogating the Relationship between Proclamation and Compassion
A recent conversation about global ministry among the poor provoked me to further thinking about missions and compassion. A certain Western Christian humanitarian missionary in an impoverished Majority World context described herself as called to be the “hands and feet” of Jesus, in extending mercy to the least, the…
Soils for Church Growth: What the Research Says about Persecution, Wealth, and Happiness
S tanley Hauerwas has suggested that the Parable of the Sower in Matthew 13 can be applied to a study of church growth in various cultures (Hauerwas 2015, 129-130). In particular, he suggests that wealth and the fear of persecution are hindrances to church growth. This article explores whether there is any…
Touching the Heart of Gulen: Gospel Pathways for Reaching the Movement
T h e July 15 coup in Turkey has brought the name of Fethullah Gulen and the movement which bears his name to the attention of the international community. On an almost daily basis, we read news reports of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, blaming Gulen for fomenting the coup and calling for his extradition…
Reflections on Short-Term Missions
A few years ago, fifteen to twenty people travelled from the United States to another country to build a village house for a missionary family. Many of the participants had construction experience. The building project lasted several weeks. By the time these Americans left, the village house was almost complete.
Deliberately Dependent: Lessons from Costa Rica about Community & Leaning on God and Others
W e were in our 20s, newly married, and fresh out of El Instituto de Lengua Española in Costa Rica when we began working way up in the mountain village of San José de la Montaña at Camp Roblealto. On Sundays, especially, we missed gathering at one of our family’s homes for Sunday dinner back in the States. We…
Managing Trauma’s Effects on the Practitioner (as tested and tried in Rwanda)
T o appreciate the scope of the Rwandan genocide is difficult; in terms of human and material loss, it equated to three New York Twin Tower collapses per day for one hundred consecutive days without the external logistical and emergency medical support which accompanied that disaster. Over 800,000 Rwandan people…
Beyond ‘People Groups’: Why the Term ‘Communities’ May Be Preferable
D ecades ago, it used to be that interested people would ask about our “country of service.” But over time, the question morphed into “What people group do you work among?” For quite some time, the status quo for presenting the missionary task has been ‘reaching people groups’, or rather, reaching the ‘unreached…
Gratitude
T he Christian life begins as the Spirit of God grants us recognition of our guilt, followed by a work of grace received by faith in the finished work of Christ. It is completed on this earth by the response of a life of gratitude, which in turn is a foretaste of the glory we will ultimately experience in God’s…
From the Billy Graham Center to Missio Nexus: A New Home for EMQ to Continue on
With this issue, I bid farewell to my editorial role for EMQ . Having served for 16 years in the editor’s chair, I have been privileged to oversee the publication of more than sixty-four issues containing almost seven hundred articles focused on helping missionaries, mission leaders, church leaders, and lay…