EMQ

Are the consequences of the inpouring of money, material and personnel ultimately beneficial to the Third World churches.

If you think a moratorium on nuclear weapons production will be difficult to achieve, what about the partial moratorium on sending Western money and missionaries to Third World churches?

If revival movements have often led the way to missionary advance, philosophical and theological speculation have too frequently cut the nerve of biblical evangelism and contributed to missionary retrenchment.

Response to the Article: Mission to Muslims: Cutting the Nerve? by Richard Hildenbrand, July 1982 issue of EMQ.

Response to the article “Muslim Missions: Cutting the Nerve?” by Richard Hildenbrand, EMQ July 1982.

I have learned much from the writings of Donald McGavran and from those of his colleagues in the church growth school of missiology. Surely few evangelicals will quarrel with the gospel’s insistence that the obedient church can expect to grow.

Every day, through many means and in all parts of the world, God’s people are being equipped for ministry. At least 55,000 theological education by extension (TEE) students are studying in 360 programs in 80 countries.

The church has expanded so rapidly in recent decades that the center of gravity of Christianity has shifted from Europe and America to the Third World.

Increasingly, people all over America are spelling missions with dollar signs. Missions means money. Missions means more dollars and less sense. Missions means anxious young candidates with price tags in their ears and all too few bargains.