When Japanese Christians build cultural bridges to the larger society by attending Buddhist funerals or inviting unsaved families to celebrate traditional Japanese festivals at their church, does that automatically herald the entrance of syncretism into their doctrine?
A self-study of missionaries’ effectiveness in evangelization.
Let me share my observations about “Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium.” It is tragic when evangelicals begin to aim their “polemical rifles” at each other rather than the enemy. In this instance, the target is not the persons but the issues.
This last year has seen a fire in the armory of evangelical theology. Though it looked for a time like an explosion was imminent, the fire was finally brought under control. The issue which ignited the blaze was a joint declaration signed in March, 1994, “Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium.”
Except possibly for not writing home often enough, nothing adds more guilt than failure to evangelize.
A new theology of the unseen world is making a huge impact on strategies for world missions and evangelization.
Last week I wrote a reference for a missionary couple. Their home church wanted to know SIM’s predictable and measurable goals for their ministry and wanted to know whether the missionaries had achieved these goals.
In most of my conversations with missionaries, one particular dilemma always seems to come up—how to keep up with correspondence.
I will share some patterns from the 886 surveys taken at four different fairs in 1992, with the hope that something may be useful to people starting out in ministry to New Agers.
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