Fine-tuning Financing: Principles of Giving and Receiving in Missions Partnerships
Giving and receiving of money in missions partnerships.
The Incarnational Model: Perception of Deception?
The incarnational model is built upon three foundational assumptions.
Serve. Assist. Partner. How to Help the Church in China Meet the Challenges of a New Generation
How do individuals, churches, or organizations assist, serve and partner with the church in China?
Muslim Missions after September 11
What are the implications for concerned governments, Muslim-Christian relations, and for missions? What follows are my initial and tentative answers.
The Expatriate Church: Possibilities and Potential
The need to initiate and expand dependable, extensive evangelistic work among expatriates can no longer be disputed.
Clashing Cultural Views of Sin
I felt sick when I heard the accusations of sexual immorality against an African pastor. Church leaders told the pastor to take his annual leave. A month later, the pastor returned to his ministry and things went on as if nothing had happened.
Using Money in Missions: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Four alternatives for the use of money and missions.
Does the Mind of Missions Need to Be Changed?
I am honored to be invited to present my perspective on the strengths and weaknesses of the “revolution” in mission as so forcefully proposed by James Engel and William Dyrness in Changing the Mind of Missions: Where Have We Gone Wrong.
Relief and Development Helps
We write this in the immediate aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001. We had previously decided to focus this installment on relief and development organizations.
Adopt a People: Become a People Advocate
There are 600 Evangelical churches for every unreached people; so, if we all adopt a people, the world can be reached very quickly.