Friday, June 22, 2007

Here is a new world map with the Progress of Evangelical Christianity by People Group

In this map, Joshua Project presents the state of each people group in the entire world in terms of their being “reached with the gospel”. This term mainly applies to access to the gospel - have they had a chance to hear and respond? Most maps show a country view, but peoples spread over country borders. This is an important map for picturing the remaining task. Click this link for the… Read More

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

It’s a whole new world for international studies

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Friday, March 16, 2007

Persecuted Church Organizations Form Historical Network

At a conference held from March 6-8 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, fifteen organizations including the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) met and formed ‘The Religious Liberty Partnership’ to find new ways of working together for the persecuted church. Chaired by Merwyn Thomas from Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), based in the U.K., the network will meet annually, while a working group of five members will lead various works during the year. The members… Read More

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Friday, March 09, 2007

Death of a Back to Jerusalem Pioneer

Mecca Zhao, a member of the Back to Jerusalem Band (BTJB) was called home to glory on the 7th of March, 2007. In 1946 Brother Zhao and his fellow worker, Timothy Dai, were sent out by the BTJB. Sharing the gospel as they went, the two traveled through Kansu to Qinghai. Later, six other Band members joined them. Mecca Zhao pressed on into Xinjiang in 1948, where he established a base… Read More

Posted on 03/09 at 09:01 AM
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Culture and the Bible

Let us imagine an American who is sent as a missionary to an African country. He will have to ask himself this question: How can I, who am the product of an Anglo-Saxon culture, take the gospel from the Bible, which was written in the cultures of Judaism and the Greco-Roman world, and communicate it to Africans who belong to a third culture, whether of Islam or of an African traditional… Read More

Posted on 03/06 at 02:15 AM
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Friday, February 16, 2007

Church Planting Movement Training Resources

http://www.cpmtr.org has videocasts and podcasts (audio) as well as other resources for those interested in church planting movements.  Read More

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Friday, January 05, 2007

“Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome

Rodney Stark’s new book argues that Paul quickly developed a standard approach to his church planting mission. 1. He typically began to visit a community by holding privately organized meetings under the patronage of eminent persons. who provided him with an audience composed of their dependents. 2. Paul did not travel alone, but often took a retinue of as many as forty followers with him, sufficient to constitute an initial ‘congregation,’… Read More

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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

God is at work in Idaho

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Thursday, November 09, 2006

Brigada has published a good article on MK resources

You can find the document with various books and links and other resources at this link. http://www.brigada.org/today/articles/mk_resources.pdf You will need Adobe Acrobat to read it which you can get here: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html Read More

Posted on 11/09 at 09:46 AM
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Catalyst Services effort to help church and mission agencies cooperate more effectively

Catalyst is introducing the Interchange Postings—an occasional newsletter providing practical ideas and challenging discussion on key topics related to how agencies and churches can better work together.  Postings is designed specifically for those in the agency—leaders, church mobilizers, and missionaries—but we welcome readers of all perspectives. Access the first issue of the newsletter on the topic, “Refocusing Western Mission Agencies,” via our website at:  http://www.catalystservices.org/resources/interchange-postings-june-2006.shtml An online forum has been launched… Read More

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Monday, October 02, 2006

John Piper on How We Might Respond to Muslim Anger over the Pope’s Comments

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This is a good book review on Patrick Lai’s book, Tentmaking: Business as Mission

See this link http://dev.worldconnex.org/All/Resources/view/105/ for a review by David Mays of ACMC and key points from the book.  Read More

Posted on 10/02 at 09:50 AM
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Adopting an Unreached People Group

1 out every 4 people in the world is cut off from the gospel – isolated from the chance to hear about God’s redemptive love. These are the people of World A who have little or no Christian witness. World A is not a geographical concept – but rather includes all people who have never heard the gospel. Alarmingly, only 1 of every 100 Christian missionaries ministers among the people of… Read More

Posted on 09/27 at 01:08 PM
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