EditorialDear Reader,
When is a Christian a Christian? When is a Hindu a Hindu? When is a Mormon a Mormon? When can we say that anyone is a "true Christian?"
Jesus said, "By their fruits you shall know...
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OtherAfrican Americans and tragedy have too often traveled the roads of history together. This issue tells the tragic tale of the African American Church which started out well in missions in the 18th...
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OtherThe year 2000 has provoked a flurry of lists of the "best of the millennium" and "best of the century" as it relates to books, events, films, people, and other categories. The cable TV network in...
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OtherWhen African-American leaders met in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1997, they made it their aim to initiate a new, collaborative effort for the sake of world evangelization. The representativesfrom both...
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FeatureThe Evidence of their Power is Stunningly Revealed in this Exciting New Booklet from the Southern Baptists. These Movements Are Changing the Way We Do Missions.
The new booklet, Church Planting...
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OtherIn 1998, the International Mission Board's Overseas Leadership Team adopted a vision statement: We will facilitate the lost coming to saving faith in Jesus Christ by beginning and nurturing Church...
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OtherThe original booklet contains four case-studies. We present one of these in this issue. The other three will be presented in upcoming issues.
International Mission Board missionaries are...
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FeatureAfter surveying Church Planting Movements around the world, we found at least 10 elements present in every one of them. While it may be possible to have a Church Planting Movement without them, we...
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EditorialBeyond the ten universal elements found in every Church Planting Movement, there are at least ten frequently, though not universally, found characteristics. These are not listed in any particular...
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EditorialChurch Planting Movements are sovereign acts of God, but in His sovereign grace and mercy He has chosen to partner with us. There are some practical things that missionaries can do to help initiate...
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FeatureChurch Planting Movements are acts of God, but it's amazing how much mankind is capable of interfering with them. As with most of God's works among us, He allows us to actively cooperate with Him...
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FeatureAlongside the models of Church Planting Move ments we have examined, many others could be described as near misses. A number of these show many of the characteristics we've come to identify with...
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FeatureGod has shown us that He is indeed doing something in our days among the peoples of the earth--something so amazing we would not have believed it had we not seen it with our own eyes (see Hab....
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FeatureCell churches: small church bodies of believers, generally 10-30 per unit, meeting in homes or storefronts, fulfilling the five purposes of a church and linked to one another in some type of...
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The growing spiritual zeal of Latino youth in the U.S. is being wed with awareness of God's master plan of mission. Is this their time to stand in the gap?
It...
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FeatureAlso See: Marilyn's Tribute and Last Words
Since the latter 18th century, African Americans have displayed an interest in world evangelization. Some scholars have argued that this interest was...
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FeatureA Challenge to live as did the One who laid down His life for us.
The Romans were known to tie a murderer to the corpse of their victims. We in the African-American community must recognize that...
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OtherI stumbled onto the October '99 issue of your terrific magazine and have found it a treasure house of new, refreshing and vital information. As a Ministry Consultant for Trans World Radio, I found...
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FeatureBorn in 1780, Carey worked as a young man in Richmond's tobacco warehouse district. Through his own savings and with help from sympathetic white people, he raised the money to purchase both his...
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FeatureLet me begin this article by introducing myself and the missionary organization I represent. The Evangelical Bible Mission, Inc., (EBM), was founded by my father, G.T. Bustin, in...
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FeatureWilliam Sheppard was born in Waynesboro, Virginia in 1865 shortly after the close of the Civil War. His family of devoted Presbyterians was considered well-to-do in the African-American community....
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OtherOnly a few African-American Christians are serving as cross-cultural missionaries because their churches don't encourage it and some pastors even actively try to dissuade prospective candidates.
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Other"My sister wants me to be home," Marilyn Lewis said, speaking of her roots in Baltimore. She was in Mission Frontiers' Pasadena office taking care of details on what was for her something of a side...
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FeatureAfrican Americans make up about 12 percent of the U.S. population, but less than 1 percent of the American missionary force to the world. Why is this? What can be done to change it? Many are saying...
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FeatureColley is recognized as the only African American Baptist to have served as an appointed missionary of both a white-administered missionary-sending agency and a black-administered...
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Further ReflectionsWhere are they? We hear about it everywhere we turn, but how often do we really see the impact on the work of the Kingdom?
The economy in the U.S. is breaking records and economic theories. But...
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