Church life in North America is changing and some of these changes are welcome. Less welcome is the tendency for prayer meetings to get dropped because few attend.
One-sided nationalistic vision hinders global perspective and partnership in mission.
Changes have to come not only in the churches, but among the missionaries as well.
Do missionaries dance? Let me tell you about it. It was an unusual Sunday because Javier and Chelo Martinez had just finished building a new house.
Within the last 18 months three missionaries have been taken hostage in Panama, Colombia one in the Philippines, and one in Cambodia.
Introduction
TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) has long been touted as an ideal profession for those who wish to proclaim the gospel in both open and closed countries (e.g., Baurain 1992).
Last time we considered three controversial issues: (1) Are we winning or losing? (2) How believable is the A.D. 2000 movement? (3) Why not let the nationals do it? We concluded:
Marshall was a fellow soldier who liked to boss people around. Because I outranked him by a few weeks, he informed me that he hated me. I avoided him after that.
Have we failed to reach Muslims at their point of deepest insecurity?
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