Our purpose is not to speak to this issue authoritatively, but to present the problem in hopes that it may stimulate further discussion and management in the larger missions community.
No one can deny that the widespread growth and adoption of technology in society has heralded a new era with new realities.
How should missions proceed within the clash of civilizations? How should American missionaries operate within the context of anti-Western sentiment?
In this article I will suggest a few key issues of conversion and then, echoing the perspectives of my friends from Russia and other countries, offer some applications for our approach to cross-cultural evangelism.
Under the general editorship of Lynn Giddings, the trilogy under review is addressed to church workers and comprises a collection of forty-one pieces by fifteen authors.
We devote the majority of this article to three categories—general religion sites, new religions and cults, and Islam—followed by briefer coverage of about a dozen other religions in alphabetical order.
Ever since the start of my current term in 1999, I have seen a progressive hardening of the Muslim front in my city, and world events have conspired to block my efforts to integrate into the Muslim world around me.
Ever since 9/11 we have been bombarded with generalizations as to the peaceful nature of Islam.
I meant well. My heart was filled with love for my Muslim friends and I wanted them to know how liberating salvation in Christ was. The more acquainted I became with my friends’ religion, the more I realized how bound they were to the plethora of futile rituals.
In early 1997, a regional church development working group asked what could be learned from existing churches to benefit those planting new churches of Muslim background believers (MBBs).
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