EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 33 of 160 · 3,835 in all.
Mentoring New Missionaries: A Neglected Ministry
The majority of newcomers on the mission field want direction and accountability. Veteran missionaries are the ones to provide it.
The Importance of Missionary Fit: Fleshing Out Giftedness and Calling
God gifts individuals in such a way that his purposes will be accomplished in a community. But this requires both the missionary and mission agency to find the individual’s true “missionary fit.”
Revered for All the Wrong Reasons
As the crowd pressed against the bus windows, I felt more like a rock star than a Christ-like servant. White people rarely taxied down the winding dirt roads to this Indian village. Certainly fewer had come with a sincere desire to serve.
Issues of Identity in a Muslim Context: Common Ground?
For the last decade there has been an ongoing debate in mission circles on appropriate limits to contextualization among various socio-religious groups—Muslim peoples in particular.
Our Readers Write
Korean-American Christians Esther Cho and Walter Chung’s article on outreach to North Korea and 1.5 generation Korean-American Christians (April 2007) was excellent. Cho and Chung did an excellent job in linking a very needy area of the world with a group of young people in the United States who can respond to that…
An Introduction to Blogging on the Internet
In this edition of Missions on the Web we provide links to numerous sources to help you enrich your experience with the blog world.
Church Planting Tracking and Analysis Tool
I’d like to introduce a tool that we have found helpful in enabling church planting teams (and their supervisors) to get a snapshot of the team’s progress in the church planting process.
Discovering the Joy of Tithing in Zimbabwe
The common assumption that churches in developing countries will continue to need outside help must increasingly be challenged.
Personal Contact: The sine qua non of Twenty-first Century Christian Mission
Statistics from the World Christian Encyclopedia appear to indicate that less than sixteen percent of non-Christians know a Christian; however, the Bible indicates that personal contact is crucial in evangelism.
Mission-Church Relations in Post-Soviet Central Asia: A Field Study
It is time to make “new mistakes” in church planting and in dealing with indigenous ministries.
Unlocking Worldview as a Means of Empowering Evangelistic Outreach
A veteran of the mission field in Latin America shares how he and others used death rituals to better understand the local people and culture.
Relationships between Native and Non-native English-speakers for Missions
Studying the value of NEST/NNEST relationships in schools that teach English as a foreign language.
The Effectiveness of Defectiveness
An indigenous perspective of how one faithful missionary impacted the lives of many through her obedience.
Lessons from a Merger
Seven lessons learned from the successful merger of AEF and SIM.
Funding a Kingdom Business
Identifying different approaches mission agencies and churches are using to fund “kingdom businesses.”
Beware of Dhimmi Writers
Lessons to learn from the way Christian writers have reacted to Muslims and the Islamic faith.
Why Muslims Are Repelled by the Term Son of God
When witnessing to Muslims, it is crucial to take into account critical stumbling blocks, especially the use of the term “Son of God.”
The Ministry of Presence—Just Show Up!
We are an oral culture in Africa. This calls for face-to-face contact.
Letting Go and Hanging On
One of the hallmarks of missionary life is tenacity and perseverance in the task.
Our Readers Write
Identity Theft With disappointment, we read Roger Dixon’s article, “Identity Theft” (April 2007), in which Dixon takes the Indonesian Bible Society (IBS) to task for producing an inaccurate translation of the New Testament.
Business as Mission Resources
The blending of business with mission is as old as Paul’s tentmaking work in New Testament times. However, over the past two hundred years many evangelical missions (and churches) have pushed business ventures to the sidelines.
Helping Alumni Advance: Designing a Continuing Education Program
Since Mutiso Mwema graduated from Bible college nine years ago, he has faithfully served as a pastor of local churches where he was assigned by his denominational leadership. Although a few of his former classmates have been given the opportunity to pursue further studies at other colleges or graduate schools, Mutiso…
Is Business as Mission Honest?
Tentmakers who embrace the idea of a Christian vocation can see themselves as Christian business people.
Shame in Spain
Recognition of shame in individualistic cultures such as Spain may be crucial to developing effective strategies for evangelism.