A Second Look: Editorial by EMQ Editor Gary Corwin

At a time when more talking heads are focused on Islam than ever before, the missions community may want to keep these basic truths clearly in mind.

There is a need for more objective criteria to assess when contextualization has crossed the line into syncretism.

Wade Byrum is a forty-something businessman and a fellow elder at our church. A short time ago he led our session in a devotional that I will not soon forget.

The state of missions engagement among evangelical churches in North America is changing.

Much has been made through the years of the impact and power of student movements in world evangelization. And well it should, as students have again and again been on the cutting edge of the new outreach that God has initiated around the world.

More” is not always better. Neither is “new.” And nowhere is this more true than with regard to the gospel.

Theology divides, evangelism unites.” So goes the mantra of too many. Oh, there is a kernel of truth in what they say: too much majoring on minor issues can be divisive.

The Internet has made information instantly available. Twenty years ago even the world’s most sophisticated intelligence agencies would have drooled over comparable access to it.

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.

Both in evangelistic outreach and in church development, varying manifestations of the arts have taken center stage in a number of contexts.