By Laurie Fortunak Nichols Central America and South America are filled with God’s beauty. They are also filled with corruption, unemployment and nominalism. Read Article >> A Focus on Central and South America: Ninety-nine Least-Reached People Groups Remain A brief look at Central and South America shows great activity among Roman Catholics, Protestants, Muslims and […]
By Adrian de Visser April 2007 Aristotle viewed communication in relationship to three points of reference: speaker, speech and audience.1 Based on his view, a simple hypothetical assumption about communication can be developed: SPEAKER →→→ SPEECH →→→ AUDIENCE In reality, communication is a more complex process because the truth communicated does not travel in a […]
By Kenneth D. MacHarg Radio Impacto, a small, 1,000-watt FM Christian radio station in La Mesilla, Guatemala, is also planting churches. Read Article >> Christian Churches Together Launched in Pasadena, California, USA: Stresses Evangelism and an End to Poverty A consensus on the importance of evangelism and the need to eliminate domestic poverty marked the […]
The Latin American Council of Churches, known under its Spanish acronym CLAI, has elected Panamanian Episcopal (Anglican) Bishop Julio Murray as its first black president in a tightly contested election. “I am very happy about this election,” said the Rev. Antônio Olimpio de Sant’Ana, the executive secretary of Brazil’s National Ecumenical Council to Combat Racism. […]
By Sandra S. K. Lee April 2007 Members of the Lausanne Theology Working Group met to discuss “following Jesus in a broken world.” The Lausanne Theology Working Group convened its conference, “Following Jesus in Our Broken World,” 12-17 February 2007 in Limuru, Africa, in partnership with the World Evangelical Alliance Theological Commission. This was an […]
By Adrian de Visser April 2007 Paul Hiebert provides guidelines for responsible contextualization: The Bible is the final and definite authority for Christian belief and practices. Every one therefore must begin at the same place. The priesthood of all believers is accepted as scriptural teaching. The priesthood of believers assumes that all the faithful have […]
By Doug Birdsall April 2007 As we enter into the spring and Easter season, we are reminded of transformation, renewal and fresh beginnings. We as the global Church are indeed in the midst of great transformation and renewal. As Dana Robert, Philip Jenkins, Todd Johnson and other scholars have demonstrated, we are in the midst […]
By Adrian de Visser April 2007 Most Asian countries which were colonized by colonial rulers have spent their post-independence years striving for a national identity. An integral part of the national identity is perceived as being anti-Christian. In Sri Lanka, the Buddhist clergy seem to be developing a term called the “Sinhala Buddhist,” referring to […]
By Glenn Smith Missio Dei establishes the priority of God’s activity in terms of mission and characterizes God himself as being a missionary God. Read Article >> Contextualization that Is Comprehensive By A. Scott Moreau Comprehensive contextualization includes not only theology, but all seven dimensions of the religious life. Read Article >> Contextualization in the […]
By Lon Allison March 2006 While in Washington DC, USA, in February 2006 for the National Prayer Breakfast, I met two men (one from Europe, the other from Africa) who got me thinking about charity and justice. The breakfast is an annual two-day meeting first held during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s. […]
By Jehu J. Hanciles In the same way that European migrations from Christianity’s old heartland provided the impetus for the European missionary movement, phenomenal migrations from Christianity’s new heartlands have galvanized a massive non-Western missionary movement. Read Article >> Leading and Connecting with the Next Generation by Understanding Generational Differences By Graeme Codrington Generational theory […]
By Roger Peterson March 2006 1990–2000s: The Internet and World Wide Web. Contact with far away places is no longer the domain of the news media or the highly-networked socialite. Average people now easily communicate with missionaries in far away places, making the world seem a much smaller place. As my writing colleague Wayne Sneed […]
By Roger Peterson Looking at the stategic potential of short-term missions. Read Article >> Bonding through Short-term Mission: A Lifeline to the Unreached By Chris Leake Short-term mission has missed the point of the Great Commission. Read Article >> Philip 8.4.8 and Short-term Missions By Carolyn Bennett Mobilizing and equipping believers to reach ethnic communities […]
By Roger Peterson March 2006 4. Improved Literature Until recently, very little solid printed literature existed to guide short-term mission practitioners in their work. The little that was available was often self-published and usually provided only anecdotal evidence to support the bias (either for or against) of the given author. Or it was a graduate […]
