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What are the consequences of asking governments to save us?

After two centuries in Latin America, church and state are no longer such cozy partners.

What’s the only uncontested truth about unreached peoples? (1) They are eterenally lost without Christ, and (2) we are supposed to reach them with the gospel as eagerly as the apostle Paul set his sights on Rome.

As the year A.D. 2000 began to loom into view, Christian leaders started praying and dreaming about what could be accomplished by the the end of the century (and millennium).

Do we offer run of the mill development, or transformational programs?

This and other questions must be faced by the proponents of the unreached peoples movement.

Many of us have been taught that our relationship with donors means we receive money and prayer support, and they get information, nothing more. So our goal is to find churches and people who will give to us, expecting very little in return.

Here’s how churches can move from depending on mission agencies to relying on themselves.

Five years of tough work culminated in a radically new worship tool.

One of those truly earthshaking innovations that was supposed to revolutionize education back in the 1930s when I was in grade school lasted about six weeks, as I recall.