Setting the Pace

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Will Tokyo 2010 Be Remembered Like Edinburgh 2010? Editorial

Will Tokyo 2010 Be Remembered Like Edinburgh 2010?

Every few years major global meetings of mission and church leaders take place in various locations around the globe. I have attended a number of them over the years. They have always been...

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Tags: edinburgh 2010, tokyo 2010

Setting the Pace Feature

Setting the Pace

Tokyo 2010 Leads the Way in Celebrating Edinburgh 2010

Come over and help us!” pleaded Stefan Gustavsson, leader of the Swedish Evangelical Alliance, to the delegates at the Tokyo 2010 mission consultation. Echoing the call of the man in Paul’s...

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Tags: edinburgh 2010, tokyo 2010

Blogging from Tokyo 2010 Feature

Blogging from Tokyo 2010

The most powerfully moving moment of the conference:

Stefan Gustavsson of Sweden gave a Macedonian call (“come over and help us”) lecture about how to evangelize secular Europeans, the “prodigal...

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Tags: tokyo 2010

The State of the Unfinished Task Feature

The State of the Unfinished Task

The Assumptions Behind The Ten Elements

I want to talk to you today about ten elements which I think outline the global evangelization priorities for the Church. As leaders, we need to know where...

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Tags: church planting, great commission, unengaged people group

Beyond Christianity Feature

Beyond Christianity

Insider Movements and the Place of the Bible and the Body of Christ in New Movements to Jesus

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...

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Tags: jesus movements

Tokyo 2010 Declaration Feature

Tokyo 2010 Declaration

Making Disciples of Every People in Our Generation

We, representatives of evangelical global mission structures, being intent on fulfilling the ultimate objective of the Great Commission, have gathered in Tokyo May 11-14, 2010 at this Global...

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Tags: disciplemaking, tokyo 2010

Challenge and Opportunity for the Global Network of Mission Structures Feature

Challenge and Opportunity for the Global Network of Mission Structures

It has been a privilege to serve as the first International Director of the Global Network of Mission Structures (GNMS). As we have begun to promote the GNMS within Asia, I see more and more the...

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Tags: gnms

Statement From the Hindu Peoples’ Task Force Feature

Statement From the Hindu Peoples’ Task Force

The challenges involved in engaging the Hindu world with the gospel of Christ are vast and complex. The small group focused on that challenge at Tokyo 2010 could not produce a great plan or...

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Tags: caste, hindu

Tokyo 2010 and the “Western/Non-Western” Distinction Marginalia

Tokyo 2010 and the “Western/Non-Western” Distinction

The Tokyo 2010 Consultation consisted of 967 delegates from 73 countries, not including the 927 Japanese observers. According to David Hupp, Tokyo 2010’s administrator, “Using a definition of...

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Tags: tokyo 2010

When God’s Kingdom Grows Like Yeast Other

When God’s Kingdom Grows Like Yeast

Frequently-Asked-Questions About Jesus Movements Within Muslim Communities

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...

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Tags: muslim

Avoiding the “Church Development” Syndrome Raising Local Resources

Avoiding the “Church Development” Syndrome

The Church of Pentecost was begun in West Africa before the middle of the 20th century. It grew without the unhealthy dependency on outside resources that sometimes characterizes...

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Tags: dependency

Locking People Out of the Kingdom Further Reflections

Locking People Out of the Kingdom

A big “take away” from the Protestant Reformation is that salvation is by faith alone and that we do not need a mediator other than Christ. As the apostle Paul declared in Ephesians 2:8-9, “For by...

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Tags: growth, muslim, syncretism