EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 83 of 160 · 3,835 in all.
Rwanda: Where Was the Church?
What influence should the church have had?
House United or Unequal Yoke?
This last year has seen a fire in the armory of evangelical theology. Though it looked for a time like an explosion was imminent, the fire was finally brought under control. The issue which ignited the blaze was a joint declaration signed in March, 1994, “Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in…
Do Missionaries Tell the Gospel?
A self-study of missionaries’ effectiveness in evangelization.
Responding to Counseling Needs in African Churches
The need for counseling was implicit in the immense numbers of refugees and displaced persons.
Rwanda: Analysis by the U.S. Ambassador
Jesus saw trials awaiting human society as a combination of political, cultural, environmental, and religious elements. That’s what we witnessed in Rwanda.
How to Teach Using the Inductive Method
While teaching a course on the Minor Prophets at a Bible school in Tanzania, I discovered a decided difference in my students’ understanding of truth. The discovery began when I assigned each student one book to research and then teach to the class.
Rwanda: Where Was the Church?
What influence should the church have had?
Editorial: The Hardest Work of All
Except possibly for not writing home often enough, nothing adds more guilt than failure to evangelize.
House United or Unequal Yoke?
This last year has seen a fire in the armory of evangelical theology. Though it looked for a time like an explosion was imminent, the fire was finally brought under control. The issue which ignited the blaze was a joint declaration signed in March, 1994, “Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in…
An International Perspective on Evangelical-Catholic Cooperation
Let me share my observations about “Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium.” It is tragic when evangelicals begin to aim their “polemical rifles” at each other rather than the enemy. In this instance, the target is not the persons but the issues.
Do Missionaries Tell the Gospel?
A self-study of missionaries’ effectiveness in evangelization.
The Search for the Best Way to Win Japan
When Japanese Christians build cultural bridges to the larger society by attending Buddhist funerals or inviting unsaved families to celebrate traditional Japanese festivals at their church, does that automatically herald the entrance of syncretism into their doctrine?
Responding to Counseling Needs in African Churches
The need for counseling was implicit in the immense numbers of refugees and displaced persons.
How to Make the Most of Short-term Missionary Counseling
Nine recommendations on how we can use short-term counselors more effectively in providing much-needed therapy to missionaries overseas.
Rwanda: Analysis by the U.S. Ambassador
Jesus saw trials awaiting human society as a combination of political, cultural, environmental, and religious elements. That’s what we witnessed in Rwanda.
Global Report: Evangelicals in Europe Dropping Anchor of Hope
It is time to bring the same compelling message of hope to an outwardly prosperous, yet increasingly pessimistic, continent.
How to Teach Using the Inductive Method
While teaching a course on the Minor Prophets at a Bible school in Tanzania, I discovered a decided difference in my students’ understanding of truth. The discovery began when I assigned each student one book to research and then teach to the class.
Measurable Objectives, No! Vision, Yes!
Last week I wrote a reference for a missionary couple. Their home church wanted to know SIM’s predictable and measurable goals for their ministry and wanted to know whether the missionaries had achieved these goals.
Editorial: A New Management Model
Over the past 30 years or so I have sat on the boards of six mission agencies. How this multifaceted verb came to be used for serving on boards of directors I’ll never know, but it is exquisitely appropriate, considering the innumerable hours members spend sitting through meetings.
Spiritual Mapping: Another Approach
Contrary to some popular teaching, spiritual mapping does not depend on territorial spirits. By definition, proper spiritual mapping looks at the world with spiritual eyes to see spiritual realities.
A Critical Look at a New ‘Key’ to Evangelization
A new theology of the unseen world is making a huge impact on strategies for world missions and evangelization.
This Present Darkness
When This Present Darkness , the first of Frank Peretti’s novels on spiritual warfare, hit the streets in 1986, its reception was phenomenal. It represented an imaginative and entertaining new kind of writing, tackling some of theology’s most high-interest “missing links” through the medium of the novel.
Reaching New Agers on Their Own Turf
I will share some patterns from the 886 surveys taken at four different fairs in 1992, with the hope that something may be useful to people starting out in ministry to New Agers.
You Can Keep up with Your Correspondence
In most of my conversations with missionaries, one particular dilemma always seems to come up—how to keep up with correspondence.