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What Have We Learned From 200 Years of Doing Missions?
Raising the sails for the wind of the harvest Steve Smith, Church Planter and co-author with Ying Kai of T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution From the days of Carey until now, missionaries have continued to refine ways to implement biblical expectations for God’s kingdom to come fully to unreached peoples. Each…
Giving and Receiving Strategies
It’s commonplace in missions today to emphasize the need to let new believers decide what is best in their context, under the prayerful guidance of the Bible and the Holy Spirit. Jesus told his disciples that the Father, “will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—the Spirit of…
All Things are Yours
In a classic text on cross-cultural ministry Paul stated his policy of becoming all things to all men so that by all means he might save some (1 Cor. 9:22). This is sometimes treated as a specialist approach for experts in cross-cultural encounter, but the Bible presents it as a…
Church Planting Movements: What Have We Learned?
Note by Rick Wood: In the April 2000 issue of Mission Frontiers we reprinted the booklet, Church Planting Movements by David Garrison because of the key insights it held for the rapid multiplication of church fellowships in diverse regions of the world. You can read this booklet by going to…
Localization and Globalization
Signs of globalization can be found in many places. I have a friend in Zambia who is a retired pastor, now living in a rural village with no running water or electricity. However, he has a cell phone that can be charged at a nearby school. Fifty years ago when…
What wisdom is needed in producing Bible translations for Muslims? An article recently published in Christianity Today by Collin Hansen, entitled "The Son and the Crescent" (February, 2011): 19-23 (cover story) takes up this question. I commend the author for the ways in which he tries to give a balanced…
Learning From Our Mistakes
What happens when missionaries teach that the only way of salvation is for a people to completely reject their own culture and accept the “Christian” culture of the missionary? What is the result of not understanding God’s love for all peoples and His plan for every tribe and tongue to…
The Sweat Lodge
Numerous Native American tribes use a sweat lodge ceremony as a place of prayer, dedication and worship. The Lakota people call it the inipi ceremony. As a spiritual tradition, it has been controversial for Europeans for over three ce nturies. That a counterfeit sweat lodge has been in the news…
Making Jesus Known in Knowable Ways
“I was made to burn and destroy all my tribal carvings, eagle feathers, and my dance outfit because the pastor told me now that I was a Christian, old things passed away and all things became new, which meant all my Native cultural ways needed to be replaced with Euro-American…
Making Jesus Known
Native Americans Lead the Way in Reaching Their Own People
When God’s Kingdom Grows Like Yeast
In Matthew 13:33 and Luke 13:20 Jesus likens the Kingdom of God to yeast, a substance that transforms from the inside out. In the days surrounding His death and resurrection, Jesus instructed His followers to proclaim the good news of the Kingdom to all peoples of the world. Today numbers…
Beyond Christianity
The title I have been given makes reference to “Beyond Christianity” and to “insider movements.” The conference organizers have thereby drawn our attention to what God is doing to draw people to Himself at or beyond the edges of what most of us would associate with Christianity. More specifically, some…
Resources for Students and Student Mobilizers
Opportunities in the USA Perspectives is not so much a course as it is a movement involving tens of thousands of God’s people throughout the world finding their niche in God’s overall purpose to bless the nations. In 15 lessons you’ll engage with a range of dynamic speakers. Weekly readings…
Remembering a Life Well-Lived: Tributes from Around the World
Billy Graham Evangelist Ralph Winter was a man of God who gave a vision to many Christians of a world in need of the gospel. I used to meet with him on many occasions, often in small group prayer. Some of my vision for world evangelization came from my interaction…
What God do Muslims Worship?
The rise of Islamist terrorism has enraged people across the world. Muslims have suffered the most from terrorists, and they have suffered from the Western backlash as well, so they are fearful and angry at the militants. Many Christians, on the other hand, have directed their fear and anger towards…
Muslims Who Believe the Bible
Muslim Esteem for Scripture and Prophets Most Muslims are taught the basic doctrines of Islam, namely that they should believe in God, the day of judgment, angels, prophets, and the Scriptures (or else eternal fire awaits them). They are taught that the four main books of Scripture are the Taurt…
Editorial Comment
Dear Reader, We do not normally present our readers with discouraging information. We all need encouragement. But now and then we need to face some hard facts. Yes, hard facts about mission work, the durability of the Gospel, both at home and abroad. Digest This Sad, Sad Joke Two senators—one…
Disruptive Missiology Part 3
When I was in grade school, one of my teachers asked me if I was a Christian. It was the end of the school year as I recall, and in my excited attempt to witness at this apparent “open door” I replied that I was a Baptist! I realized by…
What’s Happening in the Global Perspectives Family?
Have you ever met distant relatives for the first time and were astounded by how you are very much alike? Yet this is no mystery, for we share DNA with family members. In Amsterdam in April 2003 some of us working to mobilize the Church – using Perspectives and courses…
Frontiers of Perspective
In the pages of Mission Frontiers you’ll frequently see references to the following “frontiers of perspective.” Note that this is an exploratory, growing, dynamic list, and that any one frontier does not supersede or displace the others. Unreached Peoples The U.S. Center for World Mission was founded, in part, on…
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