Beyond Fragmentation: Integrating Mission and Theological Education
Ott provides an introduction to European mission training schools and a look at the challenges that face evangelical theological educators.
Letters from Readers
Distinguishing Christian Testimonies In his letter (April 2004), Phil Parshall shares how a non-Christian gentleman in Bangladesh gave a strong, positive testimony of what his god had done for him.
Should We Send Missionaries to France?
If missions are about bang for the buck, France is a bad deal.
The Passion of the Christ-like
Any American who wasn’t on Mars for the past year is aware of the enormous impact Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion of the Christ, has had on the entertainment industry and the cultural and political life of North America.
Asian Church and God’s Mission
With the increasing shift in mission personnel from Western to non-Western countries, how do Asian “mission-ed” churches grow up to become “mission-ing” churches?
Europe and Missions on the Web
Europe remains perhaps the most overlooked mission field in the world today. Even the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches admitted, in a recent address to the WCC’s Commission on Faith and Order, that Europe has become “a continent full of people who have never heard of the faith.”
In the Right Gear
We met friends at an Indian restaurant. As we munched warm flatbread with these missionaries, they told us how their mission agency was reckoning with looming challenges on several fronts.
Creative Access Platforms: What Are They and Do We Need Them?
I recently had lunch with a veteran tentmaker missionary whom I shall call “Bill,” who has served twenty years in East Asia. We shared an interest in “creative access” or marketplace missions in the 10/40 Window.
Discovering God’s Prior Work in Bringing People to Himself
About three years ago, a university lecturer invited me to share the gospel with about a dozen research scholars from China. What was the result of those ten weekly sessions? Zero. Zilch. Nothing.
Missionary or Wife?
While most missionary men and even single missionary women have well-defined roles, the constantly changing roles of married missionary women are often unclear.