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A self-study of missionaries’ effectiveness in evangelization.

Except possibly for not writing home often enough, nothing adds more guilt than failure to evangelize.

When Japanese Christians build cultural bridges to the larger society by attending Buddhist funerals or inviting unsaved families to celebrate traditional Japanese festivals at their church, does that automatically herald the entrance of syncretism into their doctrine?

The need for counseling was implicit in the immense numbers of refugees and displaced persons.

Over the past 30 years or so I have sat on the boards of six mission agencies. How this multifaceted verb came to be used for serving on boards of directors I’ll never know, but it is exquisitely appropriate, considering the innumerable hours members spend sitting through meetings.

Last week I wrote a reference for a missionary couple. Their home church wanted to know SIM’s predictable and measurable goals for their ministry and wanted to know whether the missionaries had achieved these goals.

Contrary to some popular teaching, spiritual mapping does not depend on territorial spirits. By definition, proper spiritual mapping looks at the world with spiritual eyes to see spiritual realities.

I will share some patterns from the 886 surveys taken at four different fairs in 1992, with the hope that something may be useful to people starting out in ministry to New Agers.

A new theology of the unseen world is making a huge impact on strategies for world missions and evangelization.

In most of my conversations with missionaries, one particular dilemma always seems to come up—how to keep up with correspondence.