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Which Missionary Is Doing The MOST Strategic Work?
…Are all mission activities equally strategic? Here are some tests for your mission judgment! Missionary A This missionary is working "overseas" (is that important?) with a strong, indigenous church--the result of 80 years of fine missionary effort--helping an existing church movement to get its seminary going, and to get its…
Editorial Comment
…Friday, July 16, 1993 I am upset again by some recent highly-visible statements to the effect that Christianity is losing ground in the face of the global population explosion. (Is this what I am always talking about? Am I always speaking out against "mission pessimism"? Maybe so. Why not?) In…
Once for all… What is an Unreached People Group?
…Let's start with the very basis of the concept. It is a fascinating story. Landing at an airport, whole square blocks and buildings suddenly jump into focus. Details not visible before become clear as a bell. This is what happened when Protestants finally decided to send their own missionaries out…
Can You Sense the Spirit Blowin, and the Momentum Building?
…A small bombshell exploded at a 1972 meeting of about 30 mission executives and professors. A Southern Baptist missions professor proposed that eight years later (in 1980) there would be an unusual world-level meeting. The meeting would be intentionally similar to the most famous mission meeting in all history--the 1910…
Is resuming our “$15 Plan” a bad dream or a marvelous challenge?
…We have no choice. (It is a legal obligation--as well as a matter of integrity.) It has marvelous direct and indirect blessings for the whole cause Let's rather call it the resumption of our "Million Person Campaign." But, most of all, let's keep our promises! Perhaps these are some of…
Editorial Comment
…Centerfold Poster! I encourage you to look at our Managing Editor's column to the right. There he explains the reasons for our new look to Mission Frontiers. He does not mention the fact that we now have a poster in the middle of every issue--on white paper--big enough to go…
An Announcement You Can Act On!
…We now have more than 500 requests for information in response to the kind of announcement you see across the page. It is about our new expansion into a part-time, off-campus, individualized study program (also described by Steve Burris on pages 6 and 7). This massive effort has become necessary…
Editorial Comment
…Note to reader: Due to the unexpectedly long period between the last issue of Mission Frontiers and this one (four months), AND, due to the incredible events during this period, we have had to lengthen this issue to the maximum and at the same time continue the editorial on from…
Editorial Comment
…I am profoundly disturbed. Why can't a simple question be given a simple answer--that is ACCURATE? Are we winning or losing? Is the Christian cause mounting or waning? Is the cause of missions gaining? Are Bible-believing Christians gaining on the world population? Are they gaining on the growth of the…
Racing to the Finish!
…As an outsider to the Evangelical Free Church I have to say that I am impressed and thrilled by their new mission plans. These new plans mean the EFCA now joins the Baptist General Conference, the Christian and Missionary Alliance and a handful of other key evangelical denominations which have…
An Announcement, and Request for Prayer!
…The Perspectives Study Program (which is under the Training Division of the USCWM) is being forced to expand, as you can see explained on the previous page. We feel we must concentrate now on the development of a completely off-campus M.A. in basic seminary knowledge and missiological orientation. With such…
Editorial Comment
…Roberta and I have been gone longer than we have ever been away from the Center. We spent four weeks in May in Morocco, London (two weeks), and Riga (Latvia), the latter week being the AD2000 Movement's meeting of about 1,000 representing the entire former Soviet Union and the Baltic…
Are We Losing the Battle?
…Here is a guided tour but a drastically hopeless picture turns out dramatically hopeful! An earnest, godly spokesman for the Gospel has recently produced a book in which he begins by trying to shock the reader about the present world situation. My comments are in no way intended to belittle…
Tales of the Guilty-Rich American Missionary
…In our last issue we presented Roger Greenway's article, "Eighteen Barrels and Two Big Crates: How and why our 'stuff' gets in the way of our witness." In our comments in that issue we referred to the article found on the previous four pages, as well as promised to comment…
A Response to Roger Greenway
…Only a few minutes after our wedding my older brother warned me that Roberta and I ought not to start a family until I was able to finish my Ph.D. We followed that advice--that took three years. She did nursing as well as studied with me. That helped us through…
Eighteen Barrels and Two Big Crates
…How and why our "stuff" gets in the way of our witness. The most embarrassing moment in my missionary career occurred near the beginning, 33 years ago, when our baggage arrived in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Its arrival had been delayed for four months due to a dock workers' strike that…
Editorial Comment
…I hope you will find yourself amazed by the rich new diagram across the page. And don't miss the eloquent wording you find there quoted from John R. Stott (at the Manila, 1989 Lausanne Committee congress). The "Diminishing Task" diagram usually appearing on page five now appears in reduced form…
The “Rallying Cry” of the AD2000 Movement is:
…These are beautiful, inspiring words. Let us look closely at them to be sure we know what we are saying when people ask us specific questions about the goals of the AD2000 Movement. "A Church for every people" is the essential means to the end of getting "the Gospel to…
Mission Executive Section
…Mission agencies all over the world continue to struggle for funds and for recruits. They struggle even to be well understood in the local churches of our globe today. Yet they are desperately needed for the AD2000 countdown! THESIS: They can gain new life IF they can distinguish "Mission" from…
Are 90% Of Our Missionaries Serving In The Wrong Places?
…In the past two centuries, due to the widespread success of evangelical mission agencies--virtually everywhere they have worked around the world--an enormous overseas church movement has resulted which is now the apple of the eye of both the mission agencies and supporting churches. This is truly the glorious result of…