There is a lot of communication happening on the “contextualization” front. For some years, some missionaries have been using ministry forms which are highly indigenous in nature and rely on sources from within other religious traditions to make their case. Others have been highly critical of this approach. This dialogue has a language all its [...]
Last week I had the privilege of being the chapel speaker at Dallas Theological Seminary. I was asked to present my “Status of the Gospel” presentation in which I use a number of Google Earth demographic maps, images, and statistics to talk about the global growth of Christianity. It was similar to the presentation that [...]
When the crowd is gone, and it’s just me and a couple of pastors (usually the senior pastor and the missions pastor) standing around talking after a meeting or service I often get asked, ‘The Question.’ I was just asked ‘The Question’ about three weeks while I was in Minnesota (to be fair, it wasn’t [...]
Michael Spencer is, I am sure, getting lots of traffic to his blog these days over a recent article entitled, “The Coming Evangelical Collapse.” The article appear on the Christian Science Monitor and got mac-daddy exposure on The Drudgereport. The basic premise of this article is that Evangelicalism, because of its ascendence into a culturally [...]
I heard about it first on Thursday, February 26th, 2009 in the late afternoon. I was out cleaning up my minivan after an unusually messy week of kids, pop cans, and candy bar wrappers when my blackberry buzzed. A colleague was emailing me that 22 Christian families were being executed in Aghanistan and he was [...]
If you are wondering where the unreached are, look no further than a set of visualizations on the web site Many Eye’s. These are produced by a mysterious “harnie….” (Click on the above image to view)
Here’s the latest feed from Missions Catalyst! For more details, click here! Missions Catalyst e-Magazine is a free, weekly electronic missions digest designed to inspire and equip Christians worldwide for global ministry. Please use it for your prayers, pass along what you learn to others, and forward this edition to anyone you think might be [...]
Here’s the latest feed from Missions Catalyst! For more details, click here! Missions Catalyst e-Magazine is a free, weekly electronic missions digest designed to inspire and equip Christians worldwide for global ministry. Please use it for your prayers, pass along what you learn to others, and forward this edition to anyone you think might be [...]
Many of my loyal readers know that I am involved with planning a conference in December of 2008 called “Story’08.” The trailer came out today! Here is it, in all it’s high-speed glory: Download Visit the Story’08 website for more details.
