EMQ

Mission leaders are aware that contemporary attitudes toward evangelism are currently undergoing some very basic changes. Furthermore, these changes will undoubtedly become more and more prominent in the decade to come.

At a recent church growth/evangelism workshop in Colombia the national pastors and missionaries were asked to list the major obstacles to the growth of their churches.

The past decade has seen significant changes in the world mission of the church. These changes are naturally reflected in missiology the study of missions.

Although more than ten years have gone by since the days when the Evangelical Missions Quarterly was only the dream of a few people, and of a committee appointed to bring the project to fruition, it’s not hard to remember the questions that flooded our minds as we faced the job.

The sudden proliferation of sending agencies has attracted the attention of missiologists all over the world.

Some significant happenings in Asia during the last ten years.

An expansion of Islam in North America is an illustration of the challenge which this great religious system represents to Christians around the world today.

Four o’clock Sunday afternoon we were seated in the large circle of believers experiencing a genuine “body life” meeting. My friend was seeking the “new” in Latin America after being away for ten years.

Any generalization about Europe with its many languages, countries, ethnic groups, cultures, political regimes and religious traditions is bound-to be inaccurate. No one trend of any kind is ever to be found everywhere. In this article we will try to take the broadest possible sweep, while seeking to maintain a maximum of accuracy.

As a layman who his had a deep interest in missions for many years, I am much concerned about several observations I have made, and I feel that it would be profitable to bring these out into the open for consideration.