More than a decade has passed since you last sat in a classroom. Now you face furlough and study with considerable apprehension. You’re not alone. Fears about going back to school are understandable.
Ministry training does not have to take you out of ministry.
The hurdles discussed here reflect the thoughtful concerns of a number of mission agency leaders and missiologists, who frankly admitted to difficulties in our methods, practices, goals, tactics, and strategies.
Entering a new culture is a critical stage in missionary life. How well a missionary learns to function and communicate within his target culture will determine the effectiveness of his ministry to those people.
We can’t impose our Western ideas of Christian faithfulness on Islamic culture. Rather, we must find ways to express our Christian integrity within Islamic culture.
Reports from around the world.
About one-fourth of cross cultural mission work is being done by people from non-Western nations.
Sending dollars to substitute missionaries creates the dangerous misconception that missions equals money alone.
Something about the approaching arrival of the 21st century has sparked a plethora of new world evangelization initiatives. Actually, according to researcher David Barrett, America’s 200th birthday in 1976 was the catalyst for the launching of not less than 11 new plans. Since then, another 183 have been announced.
Our goal must be to be facilitators of new churches instead of leaders of them.
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