This way of church planting has stolen my heart. We began working with our first church planting training team in 1972. In one year a church was started.
The most recent major movement for women’s rights, often referred to as “women’s lib,” began in 1963 with the publication of Betty Friedan’s, The Feminine Mystique. As a controversial issue in public debate, the movement gathered momentum during the 1960s and was at its peak in the late ’60s and early ’70s.
It is African literature that can speak most effectively to an African reader.
There is a subtle assumption in some circles that evangelicals are one mind and speak with one voice regarding the ultimate destiny of persons who go through life never having heard the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Since the industrial revolution less than two centuries ago, the material and economic gulf separating the industrialized North from the agrarian South has grown to astonishing proportions, and most evidence suggests that the chasm will continue to widen.
Affluence as a missiological problem is both a major and a neglected issue.
Is affluence the Achilles’ heel of modern missions? It is helpful for us to be challenged to think about the possible hindrance our possessions may have in our ministry.
Things have changed but throughout the world. But some missionaries have not caught on.
It is important for missionary strategists to take note of the ebb and flow of people in urban areas, and to realize that things will not continue the same forever.
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