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Five Times, Ninety Days and One Generation
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Five Times
While visiting churches in an outlying part of another country, Mike and Rebecca’s charitable instincts kicked in. “We must find a way to help these churches,” they declared. Before...
What Have You Brought For Us?
Reflections on Unhealthy Dependency via My Short-Term Missions (STM) Experiences
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The Dominican Republic
The cattle truck turned off the highway onto a dirt road that wound through acres and acres of sugarcane. Two more cattle trucks followed, each one loaded with one to two...
Can They Do It?
Tags: church planting, dependency, disciple-making movements, mission, unreached people group
EPHESIANS 4:11-13 HAUNTED ME!
While Ephesians was probably my favorite epistle from which to preach and teach, this section convicted me that my training had been inadequate and even misguided....
A Hand-out, Hand up, or Hand Across?
Tags: dependency, handout, resources, sustainability
The saying “a hand up, not a handout,” has been popularized over the last decade. The phrase was created to move people away from the trend of giving handouts and charity in chronic poverty...
Dependency & Self-Reliance
My Personal Journey
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I consider it a privilege to be invited to participate in this special edition of Mission Frontiers dedicated to issues of local sustainability. In some ways, I was late in becoming aware of...
A Recipe For Dependency
A Kenyan Story
Tags: dependency, kenya
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Christianity came to Kenya through the United Kingdom missionaries who accompanied their brothers, the colonists, in the second half of the 1800s (Baur, 2009). In fact, the... |
The Need For Bivocational Ministry
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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... |
Good Intentions Are Not Always Good Enough
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The English intellect C.P. Snow asked the now-famous question, “Can we do ‘good’ when the foreseeable consequences are evil?” No, but what if the evil consequences are not easily... |
Doing Good That Is Good!
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The following is a summary and excerpts of a book written by Dr. Robert Lupton entitled Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt those They Help (And How to Reverse it)
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