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Learning how to learn a language is one of the major components of the Agape intensive training that every new member attends before going to the field.

What do we think about when we think of the safety of missionaries?

In 1957 an Indian Christian church leader made the startling statement that, with the exception of scattered local instances, in 150 years it has not been possible to build a fully indigenous Christian church in India.

As a third year student at the Instituto Biblico Buenos Aires I had had the rare opportunity to investigate evangelical youth work at its source. But, somehow, those principles so rigidly adhered to in the United States and Canada seemed both foreign and awkward in my own situation upon my return to Argentina.

The word “contextualization” was coined just over five years ago, and already it is used around the world in many different circles.

I see the evangelical model of exegesis developed through history as an easier and more directly pertinent methodological influence on our contemporary experience in cross-cultural hermeneutic.

For many, the term “theology” has about it an aura of’ irrelevance. It conjures up in the mind the seemingly endless history of bickering between those in favor of one set of interpretations of the Bible and Christian experience with those who hold another set of interpretations.

The disease occurs when the national church claims a territory so great that it cannot possibly evangelize it.

The fact of unprecedented church growth in Africa has also brought some serious questions and problems.

About 30 pairs of eyes were intently focused on a photograph. The eyes belonged to church leaders who were crammed into a classroom on the mission station at Tossay.