The Future of the Frontier Mission Movement

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Do Strategic Partnerships Really Make A Difference? Feature

Do Strategic Partnerships Really Make A Difference?

Case Studies in Partnership With Some Remarkable Outcomes

In the previous article, "An Open Letter to Mission Executives," Phill Butler makes the case for God's people working together in Partnership. But, do partnerships really make a difference? You be...

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Editorial Comment

Dear Reader,

Modestly, this is the most important issue of this bulletin which you have ever held in your hands.

Why? It's not due to any special virtue of ours.

Then why? Because to an...

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MF Behind the Scenes

The Future of the Frontier Mission Movement?

It would be hard for us to tackle a larger or more complex subject than "The Future of the Frontier Missions Movement." Our analysis of this subject falls into two basic categories, the strategic...

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Is An Explosion of Faith Coming In India? Feature

Is An Explosion of Faith Coming In India?

Ed. Note: The following is not intended to present an "ideal" for all believers in India to follow. It also does not condemn those millions in India who have chosen a Western form of Christianity...

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The Bible, Reformation and Modern Missions Feature

The Bible, Reformation and Modern Missions

What Did You Learn In Sunday School?

This three-page article presents what may seem to be a new perspective on the Bible, the Reformation, and Missions, and provides the basis for the unusual theme of this whole issue.

I learned in...

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Do We Need Heresies on the Mission Field? Can Heresies Be Clouds with a Silver Lining? Feature

Do We Need Heresies on the Mission Field? Can Heresies Be Clouds with a Silver Lining?

No Perfect Church

No one person in any tradition will be entirely satisfied with everything about the others, but we do admit that insofar as they understand and believe the Bible and accept Christ as Lord and...

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Is Extraction Evangelism Still The Way To Go? Feature

Is Extraction Evangelism Still The Way To Go?

Several Other Models Suggest Some Possible Alternatives In Mission To Hindus And Muslims

Looking at the mission of the Indian church as a whole, there are two quite dissimilar approaches to missionary work. Missionary evangelists to the tribal peoples are expected to adjust as much as...

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A Turning Point: A Culture Clash Led to a Mission Movement to the Gentiles Feature

A Turning Point: A Culture Clash Led to a Mission Movement to the Gentiles

Ed. Note: Dr. Viju gives us an arresting view from India into the NT confrontation that led to a radical "reformation" of existing Jewish outreach to the Roman Empire. His thoughts result from...

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Some Pointers for Personal Evangelism Among Educated Hindus Feature

Some Pointers for Personal Evangelism Among Educated Hindus

Friendship evangelism is usually easy to initiate with Hindus. Most Hindus esteem religion in general and are free and open to speak about it. A sincere, nonjudgemental interest in all aspects of...

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The Frontier Mission Movement: What Do We Need to Move Forward? Feature

The Frontier Mission Movement: What Do We Need to Move Forward?

Thus far in this issue of Mission Frontiers we have looked at some of the strategic problems that face us as we seek to widely impact the Hindu, Muslim and Chinese spheres with the gospel. In this...

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An Organizational Chart for Strategic Partnerships and Adopt-A-People Advocates Feature

An Organizational Chart for Strategic Partnerships and Adopt-A-People Advocates

What Is This Chart All About?

A Description of the Chart

The chart seen on the next page involves two basic elements: A Home- based Resource Network and a Field-based Strategic Partnership. These elements, numbered 1 and 2,...

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An Open Letter to North America’s Mission Agency Leadership Together Feature

An Open Letter to North America’s Mission Agency Leadership Together

Fulfilling The Great Commission IS Possible

Dear Friends

IBM's Asia Pacific President, Robert C. Timpson, commenting recently on the deepening strategic alliance between IBM and Toshiba in the field of semiconductor production, stated...

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A Case Study In Adopting An Unreached People Group: An Exciting U.S./Mexican Partnership! Feature

A Case Study In Adopting An Unreached People Group: An Exciting U.S./Mexican Partnership!

Can adopting an unreached people group bring renewal to your church? Discover how the Holy Spirit releases new life among two churches in Yakima, WA as they serve the Lord together by reaching out...

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Penetrating the Final Frontiers Feature

Penetrating the Final Frontiers

5000 Christian Leaders to Meet in Africa to Focus on the Unreached Peoples

GCOWE ’97 - Nine Mission Consultations in One

Some 5000 key Christian leaders, representing 100 countries of the world, will meet in Pretoria, South Africa from June 30 to July 5, 1997, for a...

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Adopt-A-People Advocates Feature

Adopt-A-People Advocates

The Essential Link Between the Resources at Home and the Agencies on the Field

We Need 146—One for Each of the Gateway Clusters

Is God trying to tell us something? When godly people from many different agencies on various continents begin coming to the same conclusion,...

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GCOWE ’97: Mission Executives Consultation

Already Helping Mission Leaders Focus on the Joshua Project 2000 Peoples

Even though the first of over 500 mission leaders will not arrive in South Africa for GCOWE '97's Mission Executives Consultation for another 10 months, the process of collecting data on the Joshua...

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National AD2000 Initiatives — A Focus of GCOWE ’97 Feature

National AD2000 Initiatives — A Focus of GCOWE ’97

GCOWE '97 is to be a power booster for national church leaders, already committed to the vision of the Body of Christ in their nations being mobilized and deployed to penetrate every least...

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Why Global Conferences? Feature

Why Global Conferences?

Understandably, a segment of the Christian world is getting tired of conferences, especially global conferences. They are asking a very pertinent question: "What is it that you are going to...

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