The State of the World

This Month's Articles

The Diminishing Task Feature

The Diminishing Task

The Field and the Force

This message by Dr. Winter was given at a community night meeting on the campus of the U.S. Center with an emphasis \ on the State of the World. We had asked him to share his vision of what's...

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Editorial Comment Editorial

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...

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Pray for Muslims in China! Feature

Pray for Muslims in China!

China: A Single Ethnic Group?

Most people think of the People's Republic of China (PRC) as being almost exclusively Han Chinese. Most mission publications speak of China as if it were all one...

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That Ishmael Might Live Under His Blessing Other

That Ishmael Might Live Under His Blessing

About 2000 BC: Abraham, the friend of God, cries out in prayer for his son Ishmael to live under God's blessing.

AD 610: Mohammed, a descendant of Ishmael, proclaims himself a prophet of the One...

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To Every Tribe With Jesus Feature

To Every Tribe With Jesus

Pith helmets, back packs and jungle boots are often regarded as synonymous with the evangelization of tribal peoples. This stereotype has developed because of the inaccessibility of many tribal...

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Reaching the Hindu World Feature

Reaching the Hindu World

There are more Hindus in the world than Protestant Christians. Protestants constitute 10.4% of the world population; Hindus nearly 13.1%. Despite hundreds of years of efforts to reach them, they...

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Tags: hindu, hinduism

The Chinese World Feature

The Chinese World

A Mosaic of Peoples

Well over a billion of the people who live on this earth are called Chinese. Traditionally, in describing themselves to the world outside of China, the Chinese have stressed the "Great Tradition"--...

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Unlocking Islam Feature

Unlocking Islam

What a Kuwaiti Muslim “knows” about “Christianity”

A friend told me how he grew up in a leading Muslim family in Kuwait. In his early teens, his religious leaders taught him that Christianity was one of the greatest forces for evil in the world....

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Tags: islam, muslim

14 Steps of Mobilization to Reach the Unreached! Feature

14 Steps of Mobilization to Reach the Unreached!

How do we get there from here? How do we mobilize the Body of Christ to see a church established in every people group by the year 2000? George Patterson of Cultural Adaptation Training suggests...

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Closure: FINISH! Feature

Closure: FINISH!

Christ's life was dominated by a passion to finish. Early in His ministry He said, "My meat (that which sustains me) is to do the will of Him that sent me and to finish His work."

In a major...

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Action! 55 Action Steps for You and Your Fellowship! Other

Action! 55 Action Steps for You and Your Fellowship!

So you've caught a vision of God's heart for the nations. And you want to get into action. We'll list some possible action steps. But first let's think through some qualifiers.

Integrate!

An...

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My Turn Other

My Turn

An Emerging New World Order and a call for Tentmakers

English teachers Bob and Betty talked discreetly about God to their students in China and invited small groups home for meals. Imagine their delight when engineer Wu said, "I want to know about...

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Midnight in Moscow 1000 Church Leaders Meet To Save The USSR Other

Midnight in Moscow 1000 Church Leaders Meet To Save The USSR

"I love you, I love you, my Russian brothers. We are one in Christ." A Muslim convert from Soviet Central Asia addressed 900 Soviet delegates and 150 from 24 other countries gathered in a Moscow...

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Khomeini, Saddam, & Jihad Leading Muslims to Christ

Communism Falls

These are momentous days. I wish to open by trying to place two things in perspective: communism and Islam.

International communism became a formidable anti-God force in the world when it seized...

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The State of the Gulf of Islam Other

The State of the Gulf of Islam

Tonight, as we are two days into armed hostilities in the Persian Gulf, we seek to understand what the Lord is doing. Mr. Bush is not in charge in the Gulf. Mr. Hussein is not in charge of the...

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Kids Korner Other

Kids Korner

Greetings!

What are we teaching?

The teaching of the entire Word of God is not complete until we communicate to children that the good news of Jesus Christ is not only for "Jerusalem," but for...

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Tags: children