EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 84 of 160 · 3,835 in all.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Editorial: What Went Wrong in Rwanda?
Like a catastrophic earthquake, tiny Rwanda has shaken the world missions community to its roots.
Yes, but We Must Learn to Work with the Chinese Churches
This article is in response to the EMQ article “Why I Don’t Pray for China to Ope n ,” by Ralph Covell, January 1995.
Boarding School Staff: How to Get the Best
In “The right stuff for boarding school staff” (October), psychologist David Wickstrom concluded, “It is time to recognize the vital role of missionary boarding schools and to staff them with the best staff possible.” The logical question is, How do mission agencies select “the best staff possible”?
Managing the Super-motivated Missionary
Dr. Bradley (not a real person) never finished unpacking. Within a day of his arrival as a missionary in Bangladesh, poor, sick villagers began to line up at his door. He was the most competent physician within miles, charged nothing for his services, and treated his patients as if they mattered.
Africans in Missions: The Possible Dream
As we approach the dawn of the 21st century, the church faces certain critical strategic questions: Who will be the missionaries of this era? What and where is the mission frontier? What models, patterns, and methods shall we use? What Christ shall we present? And, for us Africans, what is our place in all of this?
Women’s Bible Studies: Key to Church Growth
Case study from Mexico City shows how it was done.
Post-missionary Asia: We Need Love in Action
This article is a response to the EMQ article “Post-missionary Asia: One Size Doesn’t Fit All,” by Roger Hedlund, January 1995.
Why I Don’t Pray for China to Open
Now that Eastern Europe is being flooded with American missionaries, the expectation is that China will be the next country to open. China is top priority on my daily prayer agenda, but I do not pray for her to open.
Windows of Opportunity in China: New Program Trains Chinese for China
An exploration of some of the partnerships that already exist between churches inside and outside China, and an examination of how partnership between China and the West can be further intensified.
Boarding School: It’s Time to Heed the Wake-up Call
This article is a response to the EMQ article “Boarding School Staff: How to Get the Best,” by Glenn Taylor and David Pollock, January 1995.
Lone Rangers Require Listening and Support
This article is a response to the EMQ article, “Manging the Super-Motivated Missionary,” by Meredith Long, January 1995.
Anguish or Austria: Rising above Pragmatism
Spiritually speaking, Austria is a country living in the Dark Ages.
Post Missionary Asia: One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Throughout much of Asia, where the world’s least evangelized peoples dwell, the foreign missionary era has for all practical purposes ended. This is cause for our concern, reflection, and response.
Looking under the Hood of the Non-Western Missions Movement
Reading current missions literature, you might get the idea that Asian, African, and Latin American missionaries have blown past their Western counterparts like an Indy car in a race with an Amish horse and buggy.
Editorial: What Went Wrong in Rwanda?
Like a catastrophic earthquake, tiny Rwanda has shaken the world missions community to its roots.
Why I Don’t Pray for China to Open
Now that Eastern Europe is being flooded with American missionaries, the expectation is that China will be the next country to open. China is top priority on my daily prayer agenda, but I do not pray for her to open.
Yes, but We Must Learn to Work with the Chinese Churches
This article is in response to the EMQ article “Why I Don’t Pray for China to Ope n ,” by Ralph Covell, January 1995.