EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 26 of 160 · 3,822 in all.
Members onlyThe Need for Reciprocal Contextual Collaboration in Europe
WITH PROPHETIC IMAGINATION, Andrew Walls (2002, 202) claimed that the great new fact of our time is that mission is now in reverse: from the non-Western (or Majority World) to the Western world (see Catto 2012, 91-105).
Members onlyVisible Means of Support: A Clarion Call from a Donor to a Missionary
Y EARS AGO, I MET A MISSIONARY who had just moved to town. “What brought you here?” I asked, trying to make conversation. “God brought me here,” he said without hesitation or further comment.
Members onlyMissional Living on on a Global Scale: A Case for Sister Church Partnerships
C O MPARTMENTALIZING, categorization, and silo making. You may not realize it, but if you are a North American o r a church in North America, you are good at these.
Members onlyWhat Kind of Leaders Reproduce Churches?
A RE THERE REPRODUCING churches in Japan? You must be talking about churches in the U.S.” This and other comments revea led skepticism after reporting my field research that uncovered the existence of dozens of Japanese reproducing churches in Japan.
Members onlyMobilizing New Missionaries
I D EAS ABOUT AND METHODS FOR mobilizing missionaries abound, but Western culture is changing rapidly, and these ideas and methods need to be re-evaluated and modified periodically. Paula Harris, acting director for the Urbana Missions Conference in the early 2000s, wrote, “United States culture is changing fast, and…
SYMPOSIUM: Has the Use of Orality Been Taken Too Far?
A S A TEACHER, privileged to work among indigenous people for almost forty years, I am uneasy with a recent trend in teaching curriculum for tribal people. I refer to the issue of orality, which welcomed in a fresh view for biblical training among traditional groups.
Members onlyUnsung Heroes
In this section, we honor seventeen individuals for their faithfulness in ministry.
God, the Bible, Technology, and Missions
T HE WORLD IS OVERRUN with technology!” When it comes to missions, is that good or bad, helpful or harmful, God-ordained or devil-inspired? My goal in this article is to help us answer three important questions: What is technology? What do God and the Bible say about technology? and In the case of missions, is…
Members onlyFour Qualities of a Good Translation and the Divine Familial Terms Controversy
M Y PURPOSE IN WRITING THIS ARTICLE is to assist both translators and non-translators in understanding the proper and traditional application of meaning-based translation principles to the translation of ‘Son of God’ and ‘God the Father.’
Members onlyDoing Incarnational Business as Mission: A Case Study in India
SINCE THE MID-1990s when the term was fir st coined at a missions conference, “Business as Mission” (BAM) has gained wide acceptance in mission circles and generated much excitement as the new paradigm of missions for the twenty-first century.
Members onlyWorthy Risk
by Gary Corwin EVERY UNDERTAKING IMAGINABLE entails risk. Risk is everywhere, but it’s not all the same: Some is avoidable; some is not. Some is necessary,…
1. JANUARY ARTICLE LINEUP
REGULAR FEATURES A Second Look: Worth a Venture by Gary Corwin In the 20/30 Gap: Recovering Prayer Discernment in Our Agendas and Strategies by Nikki Toyama-Szeto…
Members only#Iwitness: MORE STORIES of God’s Amazing Work in Our World
Africa Ministry among the Makua-Metto People of Mozambique by Alan Howell When Children Worship: An Evening in Lesotho by Paula S. (pseudonym) Health, Stories, and Prayer…
#Iwitness: More than Refugees in the Middle East
Iraq is suffering, Assyria is in pain. Biblically, the Assyrian Empire was stretching all over the Middle East, including Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and parts of Iran, and some other regions. As the Bible talks about doom in Assyria and Iraq, we can sense strongly that the children there are resurrecting…
Members only#Iwitness: Seeking God in Times of Ease & Difficulty: An Example from Cuba
I was making my way across Cuba in a Tico, which has the interior space the size somewhere in between a toaster and a VW beetle. My companion was Otoniel Martinez and we were headed to Camaguey to train thirty-five leaders to begin new churches. Otoniel had planted twenty-seven churches despite the resistance of…
Members only#Iwitness: God at Work in the Muslim World
“Don’t make ripples, make waves” said Van, an elderly, Californian, ocean-loving product of the Jesus Movement. Van mentored a number of hippies who would “go into the world to make disciples of all nations.” My passion for the Church in the Global South and its role in missions began with those words when I was…
#Iwitness: An Unlikely Confluence for the Roma Church
“I have read your three articles on the Roma people,” she wrote me from California in September of 2013. “I now have the burden to encourage the Chinese Church to care about the Roma people.”
Members only#Iwitness: The Holy Spirit, Henry, and I on a Ten-thousand Mile Road trip in South America
I live in Peru, where I started the Christian Motorcycle Association (CMA). I wanted to visit the CMA in Argentina and in Paraguay. Henry, a member of one of the clubs I visit in Lima, wanted to travel to Rio de Janeiro, so we decided to journey together on our “iron horses.”
#Iwitness: One Stone, Many Birds
The visitor responded, “Usually I go to church on Saturdays.” Without asking which church he used to attend, I asked, “Which story in the Bible do you like best?” He turned to ask his wife. “Many,” she responded.
#Iwitness: When Children Worship: An Evening in Lesotho
Church planting is the fastest way to evangelize! I knew this for decades, but this evening I saw it with my own eyes.
#Iwitness: Holding on to God in Mongolia
Why are we here, and how will God use a veterinarian and teacher in what he is doing in Mongolia? was the question ringing in our heads. We were to learn that credentials were not a priority with God.
#Iwitness: When Stories Collide in a Small Fishing Town
It took four days, three ferries, two motorbikes, and a giant motorized canoe to reach an island community of fishermen and pearl farmers.
#Iwitness: Transformation in the Mountains of Haiti
This story takes place a few years back just before the earthquake in the country of Haiti, a land rife with political upheaval and difficulties. Drug trafficking and gang activity have been a part of the complicated mix of problems for many years.
#Iwitness: Joyful in the Midst of Sufferings: A Life Devoted to Christ in Cambodia
Mr. Bun Song is one of the elders of a local church in a rural city in Cambodia. He used to work for a military. It was years ago when he heard of the salvation of Jesus for the first time through a Bible school student who came from Phnom Penh to share the good news in his city.