Come Quickly Dawn: A Training Novel
by George Patterson William Carey Library, 1605 E. Elizabeth St., Pasadena, CA 91104, 414 pages, 2012, $24.99. —Reviewed by Garrett Matthew East, missionary with Churches of Christ, headed for Tabora, Tanzania. Come Quickly Dawn is a hybrid manual/novel for missionary training. Set in the context of a small Central American town called “Bat Haven,” it […]
Dreams and Visions: A Biblical Pattern of Divine Encounter for Muslims
The author summarizes experiential data and compares it with the biblical evidence in an effort to suggest a paradigm shift for the Church in the West with regard to the salvific utility of dreams and visions for Muslims.
A House of Prayer for All People
During my college years I asked the Lord to give me a church in the south that would bring black and white together, glorifying his name, and fulfilling the scriptures by creating a house of prayer for all people. The Lord has answered that prayer beyond my wildest imagination!
Master-less Plans of Global Evangelism
How is it that when it comes to the development of mission strategy, missions has become essentially syncretized to a secular world? How had they come to make plans which did not actually require faith in order to be carried out?
Contextual Teaching: Changes in Content and Culture
Being effective in fulfilling the call to cross-cultural church leadership training will require that we package and deliver the message in what for us is the uncharted waters of oral learning.
SYMPOSIUM: Response 4: Creating Systems and Relational Structures for the Gospel
by Jessica Fick At the recent Urbana Missions Convention, hosted by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Toby Capps, a businessman in the medical supply field shared about his work to change his corporate environment to build the Kingdom of God. Toby had personally supported World Vision for many years; however, after God sparked what Alan Hirsch describes […]
SYMPOSIUM: Response 3: A Closer Look at Ephesians
by Doug Beacham As observed by Rasmussen, the title “apostle” is widely used with numerous contexts. In charismatic and Pentecostal contexts, this became more common as a result of the Latter Rain Movement of the late 1940s. Many classical Pentecostal denominations rejected aspects of the Latter Rain movement, including its focus on the Ephesians 4:11 […]
SYMPOSIUM: Response 2: Apostles as Dream Awakeners
by J.R. Woodward I would agree that apostles are founders of new works, “sent ones” to Unreached People Groups. They understand that their calling is to make disciples of all nations and thus are willing to cross all kinds of barriers to join God in the redemption of all things. The question is: Do we […]
SYMPOSIUM: Response 1: A Deeper Look at the Criteria of an Apostle
by Jude Hama The Church in Africa is growing very fast. And like the early Church and the Global Church’s experiences across mission history, it has both authentic and counterfeit church agents. Jesus commends the church in Ephesus, “You have tested those who call themselves Apostles and are not, and found them to be false” […]
The Efficiency of Storying
A defense of how Chronological Bible Storying produces true and faithful disciples who may or may not hunger for literate depth.