EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 65 of 160 · 3,822 in all.
What an Agency Leader Would Say to Local Churches
Six suggestions for inhanced effectiveness.
Adult Children of Alcoholics as Missionaries
With the cooperation of several missionary-sending agencies, I was able to survey 664 missionaries currently on the field, record the life stories of many who are adult children of alcoholics, and interview nearly a dozen therapists who specialize in serving the evangelical missionary community.
What MKs Wish Churches Knew
How do you reach out to a missionary kid on furlough?
The Real Cost of MK Education
What does it cost to educate missionaries’ children overseas? That was one of the questions addressed by the 1998 Intermission MK Education Consultation (IMKEC).
10 Reasons Why Every Church-planting Team Needs a Worship Leader
Worship, from a biblical perspective, is far more than merely singing or praising God in the assembly of the saints.
Learning. . . Growing. . . Collaborating. . . Phasing Out
These stages in the church-planting cycle are a must.
Essential Elements of Church Planting and Growing in the 21st Century
Recently an Asian mission asked me to evaluate its strategy. After a preliminary inquiry, I said, “Before we go on, it already appears to me that you have overlooked the importance of the church.”
Musings on Education and Attrition
Just how important is missionary training?
Global Report: Past Midnight
2000—An evaluation and a look ahead
Calling and Character
“Paul an apostle by the will of God.” What could be simpler? Yet, what is laden with more profound meaning for the missionary enterprise than the concept of calling?
What an Agency Leader Would Say to Local Churches
Six suggestions for inhanced effectiveness.
Adult Children of Alcoholics as Missionaries
With the cooperation of several missionary-sending agencies, I was able to survey 664 missionaries currently on the field, record the life stories of many who are adult children of alcoholics, and interview nearly a dozen therapists who specialize in serving the evangelical missionary community.
Ripe for a Global Harvest—But is the Church Ready?
Despite significant dangers of our current culture shift, we can still discern and act on distinct opportunities for mission within postmodern cultures.
Mapping Missions and Easy Odyssey with Web Resources
The world is rediscovering geography, to the delight of many in international missions.
Incarnational Learners
Any reference to incarnation must, of course, take into account the miraculous taking-on of human flesh by the Divine.
Some Thoughts on Missionary Burnout
I am a pleasure seeker seeking the joy of the Lord. I resonate with George Muller, who said that the first and primary business which he ought to attend to everyday was to have his soul happy in the Lord.
Postmodernism: An Evangelical Blind Spot?
I believe that postmodern thinking is totally non-Christian, but I also believe in the power of the gospel.
Postmodernism, the Western Church, and Missions
Why does the evangelical church and missions community find ministry so challenging at the end of the 20th century? In a word, the answer is postmodernism.
Nomadic Peoples: Why They’re So Hard to Reach
Reasons nomadic peoples have been neglected by Christian missions, and suggestions to help change that.
Peoples on the Move
Missionaries today can focus their energies on all kinds of needy peoples or special ministries, such as tribal work, urban evangelism, street children, radio work, or Jewish and Muslim evangelism. Left out, however, has been a type of people among whom God’s work of blessing the nations first began—the nomads.
Ruts
Ruts. They’re predictable. They’re comfortable. And they’re deadly. Combining as they do, peaceful repose with minimal achievement, they have been compared to a grave with the ends kicked out.
Global Report: Sticks and Stones
But the death of Graham Staines has become a cause celebre in India, forcing a secular, democratic, and yet largely Hindu nation to confront difficult questions about the kind of society it wants to be.
What Happened to ‘Faith’ in ‘Missions’?
Walking by faith not only gives glory to God it also adds spice to life as it promotes adventure and character traits so foreign to a world or life without Christ.
Editorial: Missionary Mountain Peaks and Glaciers
I was really in the catbird’s seat last summer, cruising through the majestic Canadian Rockies in a tour bus, admiring the scenery and thanking God for it. Suddenly around the bend we confronted a mountain peak named for the first missionary to Alberta, Robert Rundle.