Five Lies about Missions
Why do Christians so often reject their call to global missions? The answer to this is in the power of lies and our tendency to believe them.
Mentoring New Missionaries: A Neglected Ministry
The majority of newcomers on the mission field want direction and accountability. Veteran missionaries are the ones to provide it.
The Importance of Missionary Fit: Fleshing Out Giftedness and Calling
God gifts individuals in such a way that his purposes will be accomplished in a community. But this requires both the missionary and mission agency to find the individual’s true “missionary fit.”
Revered for All the Wrong Reasons
As the crowd pressed against the bus windows, I felt more like a rock star than a Christ-like servant. White people rarely taxied down the winding dirt roads to this Indian village. Certainly fewer had come with a sincere desire to serve.
Issues of Identity in a Muslim Context: Common Ground?
For the last decade there has been an ongoing debate in mission circles on appropriate limits to contextualization among various socio-religious groups—Muslim peoples in particular.
Our Readers Write
Korean-American Christians
Esther Cho and Walter Chung’s article on outreach to North Korea and 1.5 generation Korean-American Christians (April 2007) was excellent. Cho and Chung did an excellent job in linking a very needy area of the world with a group of young people in the United States who can respond to that need.