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This Month's Articles

Editorial Comment Editorial

Editorial Comment

We used to concern ourselves with listing all the “Unreached Peoples” in the world. The cover story this time is “What does it take to ‘engage’ a people group?” Why ask that? Good news!

So many...

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Tags: finishing the task

What Does it Mean to Effectively “Engage” a People? Feature

What Does it Mean to Effectively “Engage” a People?

By God’s grace tremendous strides have been taken in recent years to make the gospel understandable within people groups who, until only recently, had yet to hear the Good News at all. However,...

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Tags: unreached people group

All Four Items Necessary in Every Engagement? Feature

All Four Items Necessary in Every Engagement?

In our help manual, distributed to all IMB field personnel, we include the following statement:

Engagement is about church-planting. Specifically, engagement is about implementing...

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Tags: unreached people group

Introducing the “ApNet” Other

Introducing the “ApNet”

a 21st Century Approach to Apostolic Ministry

We’re all so very familiar with the traditional mission agency (TMA) structure that we may unconsciously think it’s the only approach to obeying Jesus’ Great Commission. TMAs more or less grew up...

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Tags: apostolic

Unveiling God Other

Unveiling God

Presenting Jesus to Muslims Through a Confessional Recitation

Editor’s note: this article is excerpted from Unveiling God: Contextualizing Christology for Islamic Culture (William Carey Library, 2005). To obtain a copy of this book and to learn the framework...

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Tags: islam, muslim

A Necessary But Not Sufficient Condition Further Reflections

A Necessary But Not Sufficient Condition

Sometimes people become angry with us at the USCWM. Perhaps angry is too strong; at the very least, they disagree with us vigorously. Usually disagreement is fine, but occasionally I find these...

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Tags: church planting, movement