EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 55 of 160 · 3,822 in all.
Board-level Mission Governance and the Survival of Civilization
Under the general editorship of Lynn Giddings, the trilogy under review is addressed to church workers and comprises a collection of forty-one pieces by fifteen authors.
Understanding Conversion
In this article I will suggest a few key issues of conversion and then, echoing the perspectives of my friends from Russia and other countries, offer some applications for our approach to cross-cultural evangelism.
A Testimony for Missions: Respect or Rejection?
How should missions proceed within the clash of civilizations? How should American missionaries operate within the context of anti-Western sentiment?
A Church Built by Muslims
As the Muslim chief and I stood beside my white Toyota wagon, the traditional African gestures and greetings were exchanged. The scorching Saharan sun was beating down on all of us. Men greeted the chief and then turned to me. All of us were shaking hands and gesturing to our own hearts and foreheads showing that no…
Growing Churches in Resistant Areas
In early 1997, a regional church development working group asked what could be learned from existing churches to benefit those planting new churches of Muslim background believers (MBBs).
Free to Live under the Law: A Model for Islamic Witness
I meant well. My heart was filled with love for my Muslim friends and I wanted them to know how liberating salvation in Christ was. The more acquainted I became with my friends’ religion, the more I realized how bound they were to the plethora of futile rituals.
How Islam Sees Itself
Ever since 9/11 we have been bombarded with generalizations as to the peaceful nature of Islam.
As the World Draws Lines…
Ever since the start of my current term in 1999, I have seen a progressive hardening of the Muslim front in my city, and world events have conspired to block my efforts to integrate into the Muslim world around me.
The Web and World Religions
We devote the majority of this article to three categories—general religion sites, new religions and cults, and Islam—followed by briefer coverage of about a dozen other religions in alphabetical order.
Board-level Mission Governance and the Survival of Civilization
Under the general editorship of Lynn Giddings, the trilogy under review is addressed to church workers and comprises a collection of forty-one pieces by fifteen authors.
Missions and Arts on the Web
From drama in local churches to images of Jesus in paintings and sculptures, from music reflecting God’s glory in local idioms to films about Jesus, artistic expression spans a spectrum of ideas, materials, media and imagery that helps Christians of all cultures think more clearly about Christ.
Art as Missions, Missions as Art
Both in evangelistic outreach and in church development, varying manifestations of the arts have taken center stage in a number of contexts.
Sing Africa!
A pastor from the US, just last year, was invited to speak at a weeklong Christian conference in Malawi. The music that preceded his message horrified him.
Capacity Building: Growing Healthy Roots in Mission Organization
As much as missions partners know that organizational capacity is key to sustainable ministry, they’ll also quickly admit they are ill-prepared to build it.
Surviving Furlough Travel While Keeping Your Sanity
As a deputation survivor still on reasonable speaking terms with both supporting churches and family members, let me pass along a few of the survival tactics that have helped smooth our miles on the road.
Seven Ingredients of Successful TEE Programs
Seven ingredients that I discovered to be present in every successful TEE program that I researched in southern Africa.
We Sang Ourselves Free: Music Lessons from Estonia
I had expected the physical poverty of eastern Europe to be accompanied by artistic and spiritual poverty. I found just the opposite to be true.
Using Indigenous Art to Communicate the Christian Message
Visual art can be very useful in supporting oral communication. This is particularly the case when communicating with people who are predominantly oral-aural communicators.
Missions Has Changed: Is Our Thinking Keeping Up?
Since David Hesselgrave has publicly taken issue with the book written by Jim Engel and myself, I have been invited to write a response.
Sing Africa!
A pastor from the US, just last year, was invited to speak at a weeklong Christian conference in Malawi. The music that preceded his message horrified him.
Capacity Building: Growing Healthy Roots in Mission Organization
As much as missions partners know that organizational capacity is key to sustainable ministry, they’ll also quickly admit they are ill-prepared to build it.
Surviving Furlough Travel While Keeping Your Sanity
As a deputation survivor still on reasonable speaking terms with both supporting churches and family members, let me pass along a few of the survival tactics that have helped smooth our miles on the road.
Seven Ingredients of Successful TEE Programs
Seven ingredients that I discovered to be present in every successful TEE program that I researched in southern Africa.
We Sang Ourselves Free: Music Lessons from Estonia
I had expected the physical poverty of eastern Europe to be accompanied by artistic and spiritual poverty. I found just the opposite to be true.