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Editorial Comment
…Dear Friends, Can't you sense the quickening pace of history? Is the end of the story in sight? I think so. That is the upshot of our bulletin this time. (Note: in this combined catalog/bulletin, Mission Frontiers begins on page 47, while the first 46 pages is an annual resource…
Which Missionary Is Doing The MOST Strategic Work? You Choose.
…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 church-planting efforts better organized. This church movement already undertakes evangelistic efforts which reach individuals…
Editorial Comment
…Dear friends in Christ, My comments are going to run beyond the space normally allotted to me. There are too many exciting things to talk about. The Bombshell of this Bulletin Never in our history have we proposed so novel a plan for this publication. We admit this is our…
Editorial Comment
…I have very good news and some bad news this time. Good News The best news--which many find hard to digest--is the simple truth of the diagram we continue to display on the cover and at the bottom of this page (with an explanation on page four). To believe it…
Editorial Comment
…Dear friend, Are you sitting in the auditorium at Urbana ö at the spectacular Student Mission Conference? Or, are you hastily glancing at junk mail PLUS Christmas mail? No matter. In either case you can't avoid the scary reality that the world is being taken over by awfully young people!…
Part II Crucial Issues in Missions Working Toward the Year 2000
…The October issue of MF presented Part I of this analysis of the critical issues in the church's mission in the 90s. The first 8 points ended with a definition of a "unimax" people as "the maximum- sized group still sufficiently unified to allow the spread of a church movement…
Editorial Comment
… Dear friends, This issue of Mission Frontiers is about change: massive, ominous, mysterious, dangerous, wonderful, totally unexpected change change change change change The entire IFMA/EFMA meeting in Denver was about change. See USCWM Executive Director, Greg Parson's article on pages 6-8. The graphs showing Third World missionary explosion describe CHANGE.…
Crucial Issues in Missions Part 1
…What a time to be peering into the future! It is as if a whole string of volcanoes has erupted in Eastern Europe, and almost the entire world is now clouded by massive and nearly impenetrable dust and fallout! Do we expect in the nineties to see half of the…
An Insider’s View of McGavran
…I first encountered McGavran's force of personality at the time his Bridges of God was published in 1955. The phrase "church growth" was not as prominent then as the concept of the people movement. The ripple of interest among missionaries caused by the appearance of that book can only be…
Editorial Comment
…The world is stirring as never before. God apparently decided Americans needed an education on the Middle East, not just Eastern Europe. And, He wanted the U.N. Security Council to agree on something for a change. And, what do you know, India, after all these years of being nasty to…
The Missionary and the University
… The life and work of a missionary do not easily fit into the pattern required by U.S. institutions of higher education. Yet most of the universities around the world are there because of the global mission movement, and missionaries have made many notable contributions ranging from anthropology and linguistics, to…
Editorial Comment
…Dear Friends, The upshot of this issue is that the USCWM has entered into a new period that is now decisively beyond a 13-year tunnel of trial and testing (for our good). Three events epitomized this new era, all occuring on one weekend: Nothing in the short history of this…
A Mission Perspective on the American Euphoria over Eastern Europe
…It is all too easy for Evangelical believers to be caught up in the euphoria of other Americans gazing with uncritical eyes at what is happening in eastern Europe.But we need to ask some tough questions: “When has the mere achievement of democracy produced nice people?” Isn’t it the other…
Seeing the Big Picture
…[Part I of this paper focused upon the general world scene during the last 4,000 years, from the time the Great Commission was given to Abraham. This part is focused on the American scene, not to ignore other parts of the world but to focus on the area where most…
Editorial Comment
…Dear Friends, Vroo-oo-mm!! Not since the close of the Second World War have more profoundly significant events, in one month, erupted on the world scene. Earthquakes and hurricanes—mere side-shows compared to these astonishing events on the global level. Boom, boom, boom, the Eastern bloc countries are yielding to massive popular…
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…Dear friends, People think I am strange because I remember so many numbers. Yet I meet people who can quote baseball statistics until my head swims. (I notice that my wife never forgets the phone numbers of our children, even overseas.) I would like to believe that thousands of readers…
Unreached Peoples
…Amazing developments have taken place in the last 15 years since the first Lausanne congress in Switzerland, in 1974. We have begun to see, for example, that we cannot merely focus upon the winning of individuals, but must, even before that, unlock the cultural puzzle of the group to which…
Editorial Comment
…Dear fellow believer in the completion of the task, Everyone knows our PURPOSE. Not everyone knows our unusual METHOD. Our purpose is to wave a flag for the unreached peoples. Our method is to work for and through other mission agencies. We have said for years that once our property…
Editorial Comment
…Dear Friends, I'm sitting in a motel room here in Harlingen, Texas (way down on the border of Mexico, near Brownsville), typing away to meet a printing deadline in two hours. (Tomorrow I catch a plane which will connect with others to go clear across the Pacific to the Philippines…
The “New Thing” Is Coming!
…"Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men... "2 Cor 5:11 What are some of the signs of the times, to use a Biblical phrase? I think I see them everywhere. It is a lottery of $100 million in religious Pennsylvania. It is 200 black Baptist churches in…