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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
Tags: dependency
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
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
Tags: dependency, 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... |
Good Intentions Are Not Always Good Enough
Tags: dependency
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!
Tags: dependency
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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The Best Way to Plant Indigenous Churches Is to Begin that Way
Tags: church planting, dependency, indigenous
I once had the opportunity to dialogue with a group of leaders in South Asia about their church planting strategies. A church planting team among them shared about some of the... |
Dependency
The Crippler of People and Movements
Tags: church, church-planting movmenet, 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...