EditorialDear Reader,
This time you must learn a new phrase: Insider Movements.
This idea as a mission strategy was so shockingly new in Paul’s day that almost no one (either then or now) gets the...
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OtherOver the last several years there have been subtle, but positive signs among Christian young adults concerning the possibility of a renewed, widespread, long-term movement to reach the nations....
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FeatureI grew up as a Muslim, and when I gave my life to Jesus I became a Christian. Then I felt the Lord saying, ‘Go back to your family and tell them what the Lord has done for you.’” Such was the...
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FeatureThe following is excerpted from chapters 5 and 6 of Appropriate Christianity (William Carey Library Publishers, 2005).
It is not widely understood either outside of or even inside of Christianity...
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FeatureMuch has been written over the past 25 years on the application of contextualization in ministry among Muslims. In 1998 I (John) wrote an article for the Evangelical Missions Quarterly in which I...
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Feature[Christian Keysser] was born in Bavaria in 1877, went to Kaiser Wilhelm Land (East New Guinea) in 1899, and remained in or near Sattelberg as a missionary till 1921, when he returned to Germany.… A...
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FeatureWhat can the mission movement learn from today’s social entrepreneurs? How did Indian street children gain a voice in their community? Or African families confidently solve their own problems? And...
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FeatureThe challenge is this: how to catalyze an “insider movement” to Christ in a society closed to traditional mission work? For this to happen, the gospel needs to spread through pre-existing social...
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Further ReflectionsI was recently asked to serve the leadership of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization (LCWE) as a global strategist. My first assignment was to glean major themes and action steps in the...
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