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Contextualizando al Verdadero Pastor
…No muy lejos de la ciudad donde vivimos, los pastores semi-nómadas pueblan los valles de las altas montañas de Asia Central. Estas queridas personas gracias a las grandes manadas de cabras y yaks a su cargo pueden sobrevivir a los más crudos inviernos que podamos imaginar. Hasta ahora el evangelio…
The Intangibles of Urgency and Grit
…Jack[1] grasped the bars of his cell door and peered down the hallway. His heart raced as sweat beaded down his forehead. Should he speak or not? As a former soldier, he recalled the cruel horrors inflicted in military prisons. Arrested for preaching the gospel, he was now on the…
The Need For Bivocational Ministry
…An evangelist from India arrived at a Christian college in North Carolina to raise funds to support some 60 fellow evangelists and preachers in Chennai. He asked to use the college as a base for fundraising and was given free room and board in order to do that. Since I…
Dependency
…Jesus has called every one of us who claims Him as our Savior and Lord to go and make disciples, baptizing and teaching them to obey all that He has commanded us (Matt. 28:18-20). This is not optional for any of us. We have all been called to live on…
International Students A Historic Opportunity to Reach the Nations
…Is there a purpose to history? Is history just a random series of events where various empires rise and fall as they fight each other over land, possessions or pride? Or is God orchestrating events to achieve some mysterious purpose? If you understand what God’s ultimate purpose is, and so…
The Global International Student Ministry Movement via the Lausanne Movement
…The International Student Ministry Movement The gradual growth and multiplication of ministries among international students as an emergent movement began in the 1950’s in the United States through independent agencies such as International Students Inc (ISI) and campus ministries like Intervarsity Christian Fellowship. In some European countries, the International Fellowship…
Book Review: Hastening
…I received an advance copy of Steve Smith’s Hastening and read it with great anticipation. I was captivated by the thought of a novel focused on finishing the task among the peoples of our world, as I have taught “The Task Remaining” (Chapter 9 of Perspectives) and spent much of…
Getting to No Place Left:
…I want to give a huge “Thank you” to Jeff Minard and Robby Butler for standing in for me over the last three issues. As they mentioned, I was busy rebuilding my house after a lightning strike and fire. At the same time I was recovering from a number of…
Hitting the Mark
…There are at least two ways in which I think the mission community has strayed from adequately evaluating our essential goal of reaching people groups and seeing indigenous movements everywhere. First, we have treated engagement as an end goal rather than an essential step toward such movements. Second, we have…
Are Movements the Seeds of a Second Reformation?
…It is again my privilege to fill in for Rick Wood, who is still catching up from recent surgery and major home reconstruction following an attic fire caused by lighting. Please pray for God’s blessing on Rick and his family far beyond the attacks they recently endured. A revolution is…
Household Churches
…At the first Sunday meeting of a house church of eight in England, they set up a pulpit and invited an outside preacher! Such “house church” adaptations of a “dedicated building” church are fundamentally different from the kind of “household churches” through which movements flow. In his 1982 article A…
5 Levels of Movement Leadership
…Movements rise and fall on leadership reproduction. On the edge of movements in Asia, we have clung to simple application of the Word as the standard for success or failure in our church planting. Over the years, we have repeatedly seen the need for leadership at several levels across movements.…
…David Platt is President of the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptists. David speaks to his new role leading missionaries and to what obstacles the global Church must overcome in order to see movements of discipleship within every people.
Movements Without Women?
…Rick is recovering from recent surgery while his house is undergoing major restoration following an attic fire caused by a lighting strike. It is my privilege to fill in for him. Please pray for an outpouring of God’s blessing on Rick and his family that far exceeds the attacks they…
Ordinary Women Empowered by an Extraordinary God
…Extraordinary prayer has been shown to be foundational in every movement to Christ. Each of us begins as a tiny, fragile baby. Even God chose to enter our world this way. Extraordinary prayer can also begin as tiny, fragile turnings toward God, cries for help in our own desperate need.…
How He Leads Me through the Darkness
…I knew nothing. I was just beginning to speak Urdu. I didn't know how to dress, where to shop, or the value of the local currency in my wallet. Out on the streets it was just a “man's world.” They all ran businesses and stood on crowded sidewalks chatting over…
4 Stages of a Movement
…I stood in front of the American congregation and urged them to send short-term teams to my Asian people group. “On a two-week trip, you can win a household or two to faith and begin a church with them.” They were tracking with me until the word “church.” At that…
Reflections on My Service in the SWM/SIS
…During the 1960s and early 1970s, my wife and I served as missionaries in Zambia and Zimbabwe. Those years were the heyday of colonialism in Central Africa. Missionary presence and outside resources were prevalent in many ways. In my struggle to understand what was happening in and around me, I…
School of World Mission AT 50
…Can it be that we are 50? In 1969, when I joined the faculty, we were small—four faculty and about 35 students (Associates we called them). I was the fourth faculty member, after McGavran, Tippett and Winter. Fuller had hired me to teach anthropological and African subjects. I had come…
An Unlikely Miracle
…INTRODUCTION In a remote corner of South Asia, among ancient rocks and militant thorns, Christ’s church has taken root among the Ng people. It can only be described as early growth. Tender shoots are springing up in shallow soil as rain falls in the distant mountains and the water seeps…