The Global Network of Mission Structures

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Editorial Comment Editorial

Editorial Comment

Dear Reader,

Some things are sleepers.

When years ago a tiny baby was born on the small island of Corsica west of Italy, the world did not take notice. But that baby, named Napoleon, became one...

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Introducing the Global Network of Mission Structures Feature

Introducing the Global Network of Mission Structures

Finally … a Global Network of Mission Structures has been called forth!

Prompted by initial discussions at the Singapore 2002 Unreached Peoples Consultation, a group of 28 delegates from older...

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Historical Precedents and Foundations for the GNMS Feature

Historical Precedents and Foundations for the GNMS

The future, of course, is built upon the past. That is why this effort to found the GNMS is deliberately the result of a “Third Call.” That is, we are consciously attempting to put in place the...

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Why We Buy Things We Don’t Need Other

Why We Buy Things We Don’t Need

Ever read a book that made you mad? I was intrigued by the title of Pamela N. Danziger’s Why People Buy Things They Don’t Need. But after browsing through pages 1-96, I found myself grousing. Why?...

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Tags: materialism

Are We Trifling With Missions? Other

Are We Trifling With Missions?

Condensed from “The Evangelization of the World in the Present Generation—How Made a Fact,” a speech delivered by Rev. A.T. Pierson, D.D., at the First International Convention of the Student...

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Tags: materialism

Who Cares About the Millennium Development Goals? Other

Who Cares About the Millennium Development Goals?

Who cares about the Millennium Development Goals? Enthusiasts for frontier mission should – as an expression of our compassion for suffering peoples and our desire to see God honored in earth’s...

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Tags: international development

Utilizing the Book of Ecclesiastes as a Bridge to Buddhists

The following is excerpted from Sharing Jesus Holistically in the Buddhist World, edited by David Lim and Steve Spaulding (William Carey Library, 2005). To order copies of this book, see pages...

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Tags: buddhism, contextualization

Learning to Advance the Kingdom Further Reflections

Learning to Advance the Kingdom

What could a network of missions like the Global Network of Mission Structures do with and for each other and to advance God’s Kingdom? The ideas elsewhere in this issue of Mission Frontiers...

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Tags: contextualization, kingdom of god