EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 64 of 160 · 3,835 in all.
Budgeting for the Future
Perhaps it is time to move beyond our individual budgets and take stock of the broader financial resources God has given us for the task of world mission.
Global Report: A Woman’s Place in Missions
Women have always been the backbone of the missionary effort.
More than a Virtual Church: Church-Planting Resources on the Web
Prior to the Internet, inexperienced church planters often faced the prospect of a lonely job in a new location struggling to know how to launch a church. Today a wealth of tools, resources, helps, and discussion groups is available to anyone in the world with an Internet connection.
Begging and Beggars: A Missionary’s Dilemma
Responding appropriately to requests for money, especially from desperately poor beggars on the streets, is one of a missionary’s most difficult problems.
Mission Societies: Are They Biblical?
Are mission societies really necessary? Or are they, at best, “an historical accommodation for accomplishing missions due to the negligence of the church to carry out its mission,” as some assert?
A Call to Arms: Forming a Christian Worldview of Teaching English as a Second Language
I want to challenge Christian ESL professionals to formulate a Christian worldview of this discipline and thereby begin influencing research and curriculum.
Professional Tentmakers Open Doors for Ministry
Professional involvement in a credible job opens doors to in-depth interaction within our circle of activity and influence.
Ministry, Profits and the Schizophrenic Tentmaker
Today thousands of people, inspired by tentmaking pioneers like J. Christy Wilson and Ruth Siemens, are using their professional skills as a vehicle for cross-cultural evangelism.
Wanted: Venture Stewards
Underwriting dot.coms and then going public is but the latest winning formula for hundreds of venture capitalists who have known decades of success in numerous fields. Where are the counterparts to these investors and entrepreneurs in world mission?
Doing Evangelism on the Internet
Can the Internet, that technological monster now home to so much pornography and rapidly becoming the darling of global capitalism, actually be an effective means of bringing the good news of Jesus Christ to lost and hurting people? There are now plenty of personal testimonies that indicate it can be.
Confronting Cults on World Mission Fields
From Central Asia, an evangelical missionary asks a Western parachurch agency for help. His problem: Whenever a Muslim converts to Christ, he or she is immediately set upon by Jehovah’s Witnesses bent on indoctrinating the new believer.
Bridging the Gulf Between Christians in China
Since 1981, when I first began to visit China on a regular basis, I endeavored to understand the political situation, to get the right perspective, and to see the total picture of the body of Christ.
Ministry in China: Focusing on What We Can Do, Not On What We Can’t
China is an enchanting country, and a country ripe for the gospel, so foreign service organizations and mission groups continue to recruit people to go to China for ministry. But what kind?
The China Challenge: New Lenses for a New Millennium
In China, over the past two decades or so, we have witnessed God’s work among people who have remained faithful throughout some of the toughest trials in the 20th century.
Evangelism from the Book of Acts
Christians have often assumed that evangelism means verbally sharing the entire saving gospel message with a person. But reading the Book of Acts, one finds that Paul used many methods to share the gospel with people.
A Special Book Review: God at War, by Gregory Boyd
The Bible and Spiritual Conflict: A demon behind every bush?
A Flaw in Recruiting Strategy?
We need to review how we recruit and send national workers.
Evangelism as Overflow
In the realm of persuasion, we take great comfort in the concepts of friendship evangelism, friend raising (for missionary support), and modeling the Christian life for those around us. And yet we have this nagging feeling that we ought to be saying more.
Open Letter to Robertson McQuilkin
The following two letters are important additions to the discussion of the last year concerning the use of foreign funds to support indigenous mission work.
Persecution: Prelude to Revival
At 2:00 one morning in Jakarta, Indonesia, a mob of approximately 400 Muslims surrounded the house church of one of our church planters. When he peered out the window and saw threatening sticks and stones, machetes and torches, he knew why the unwelcome company was there.
Evangelism from the Book of Acts
Christians have often assumed that evangelism means verbally sharing the entire saving gospel message with a person. But reading the Book of Acts, one finds that Paul used many methods to share the gospel with people.
A Special Book Review: God at War, by Gregory Boyd
The Bible and Spiritual Conflict: A demon behind every bush?
Evangelism as Overflow
In the realm of persuasion, we take great comfort in the concepts of friendship evangelism, friend raising (for missionary support), and modeling the Christian life for those around us. And yet we have this nagging feeling that we ought to be saying more.
Doing Evangelism on the Internet
Can the Internet, that technological monster now home to so much pornography and rapidly becoming the darling of global capitalism, actually be an effective means of bringing the good news of Jesus Christ to lost and hurting people? There are now plenty of personal testimonies that indicate it can be.