Articles

A unified church-planting community will have both high relationship cohesiveness and high task cohesiveness.

By identifying themselves as people who love and follow the Sharia of God, missionaries ministering to Muslims can better communicate the Christian faith and disciple those who seek to follow Jesus.

The author investigates the underlying causes of dual allegiance—and offers biblical responses to eight situations where dual allegiance is commonplace.

Five ways to discern when a missionary assignment is coming to an end.

Speaking from experience, the author shares how missionaries and leaders can identify burnout—and offers five steps to recovery.

Eight questions illuminate how church planters from a variety of backgrounds and ministries can agree on contextual strategies.

A veteran missionary asks, “How much does the cross enter into the thinking of short-term missionaries?” and discusses four kinds of misunderstandings common to STMs.

In the beginning of time a “man who shed his skin” took his sister and came down to earth. He gave her to a “man of the earth” that she might become his wife. Having given her to the “man of the earth,” he said to the people, “Build a house in preparation for the feast of snakes and lizards.” He then returned to his abode in the sky.

The most relevant question for a new generation of world Christians is, “What would be biblical character qualifications for a short-term missionary?”

A survey of 250 college-aged students reveals the real reasons why fewer young people are going into long-term mission work.