By Rose Dowsett Authentic worship must be preoccupied with God. John was raised in a humanist home. He did not even know the fundamental beliefs of Christianity. As a student, however, he met a radiant, young, Christian woman. He was deeply puzzled as to what was clearly the inspiration of her wonderfully attractive life. […]
By Alberto Fernando Roldán (Editor’s note: This article is also available in English. For the English version, click here.) Introducción Una de las primeras cosas que debiéramos tener en claro siempre que hablamos de evangelización es que ella representa mucho más que una mera técnica de transmisión de ciertas “leyes espirituales” o “cosas esenciales que […]
By Alberto Fernando Roldán (Editor’s note: This article is also available in Spanish. To read the Spanish edition, click here.) Biblical evangelization is doxological because it always tends to glorify the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Introduction One of the first things we should keep clear when we speak of evangelization is that […]
By Youssef Samir Through many epochs of the Christian era, vivid discussions about the relationship between worship and evangelism have been commonplace. Some people say the relationship is very weak. They argue that evangelism is an activity directed toward humans as they are invited to hear the message of the gospel, to react and to […]
By Greg H. Parsons There’s been a lot of discussion about what some have called “insider movements.” A number of papers and perspectives have been shared, many of them documented in the International Journal for Frontier Missiology (IJFM) and Evangelical Missions Quarterly (EMQ). The idea seems to have grown from frontier field missionaries and missiologists […]
By Ragland Remo Paul Twenty-two emerging leaders from nine organisations attended this year’s AMLT. Over eight hundred leaders have received training in the past twenty-two years through the India Missions Association’s (IMA) Advance Missions Leadership Training (AMLT). AMLT has greatly impacted the Church’s thinking in India concerning missions. Twenty-two emerging leaders from nine organisations attended […]
“We need help, but we need hope. We need help, but we need hope,” a person living with HIV/AIDS told the ninety participants at the international consultation for the “Bible Engagement in the Context of HIV and AIDS in Africa,” sponsored by the Forum of Bible Agencies International and the Africa Forum of Bible Agencies. […]
By Doug Birdsall Over the course of many years, one church tradition I have always delighted in is singing the Doxology as a congregation. It brings into sharp focus the purpose for which we unite, whom we worship and the call to all creation (here on earth and all creatures below and in the heavens) to […]
By John Godson Two hundred delegates from fifty nations attended the first ever United Nations Prayer Summit. It was a privilege to participate in the first ever United Nations Prayer Summit, organized by the International Prayer Council and World Vision International in association with New York City churches and prayer networks. Held 8-13 September 2007, […]
November 2007 By Mike Mutungi I Choose Life—Africa recruits students in various institutions of higher learning to participate in the 32-hour Peer Education Training. Background Young people between fifteen and twenty-four years of age account for more than half of the over five million new HIV infections worldwide each year; an estimated six thousand youth […]
November 2007 By Carl Moeller As the 2007 IDOP approaches, Christians around the world are organizing prayer gatherings for the persecuted Church. Ostracized in India Six Muslim Background Believers (MBBs) and their families in the village of Nutangram in West Bengal, India, are being pressured to relinquish their Christian faith. The Muslim mosque committee called […]
November 2007 By Andrea Z. Stephanous One of the major problems we face when dealing with HIV/AIDS is deficient or incomplete knowledge, especially concerning how this disease is transmitted from one person to another. To what extent can a person deal with people who have HIV/AIDS? HIV/AIDS is a very weak virus that cannot be […]
November 2007 By Evvy Campbell Question: How can a critical mass of Christians be stimulated to respond in a significant, biblically holistic way to HIV/AIDS? As a faculty member at Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois, USA), I received an email invitation last year from a leader in the Student Global AIDS Campaign inviting me to participate […]
November 2007 By Pamela Gebauer The Church’s role in ministering to and loving those with HIV/AIDS is unique. The Scope of the AIDS Pandemic Worldwide AIDS killed between 2.5 and 3.5 million people worldwide in 2006, including 400,000 children under the age of fifteen.1 Malaria used to be the leading cause of death in the Developing […]
