gme: A Pathfinder

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Each Distant Reader study carrel is composed of many individual items. Each item is bibliographically described with author, title, date, summary, and keyword values. Below is a list of the items' most signficant keywords as well as lists of the items themselves. Purpusing the content of this pathfinder provides the student, researcher, or scholar with one way to get their heads around the scope of the carrel. The keywords include:

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Depending on how this pathfinder was created, many of the bibliographic sections will include elaborations on the meaning(s) of the given keywords. These elaborations were generated by feeding the items' summaries to a large langauge model and asking the model to address the question, "What is X?", where "X" is the keyword. The result will be a few sentences of elaboration. Be forewarned. The elaborations are often plausible, but they should not be take as truth. Instead, they should be taken as points for consideration.

• Eldership: A Biblical Foundation for Church Planting by Merkle, Benjamin (2009) - The New Testament presents a consistent, though perhaps not completely uniform, pattern of church leadership. The apostle Paul dedicated is efforts to planting and nurturing of churches in Asia Minor and Greece. Keywords: authority; church; congregation; elders; leaders; pastor; paul
• Song Writing and Seeking the Shalom of the City by Mar, Gary (2010) - that the Grand O pening ha d b e e n m ove d to O ctob er 22nd, a few d a ys a fter m y return . that m y father, John M ar, ha d b e e n d ia g nose d with inopera b le lung c Keywords: asian; b e; brook; c e; center; chinese; church; com; d b; e d; eric; g e; god; hen; ing; lord; m e; m y; stony; stud; tim
• KOINŌNIA FOR THE NATIONS: A BIBILICAL MODEL OF CHURCH-MISSIONARY PARTNERSHIP by Carne, Steven Arthur (2012) - Howard Foltz is even more forceful We should note that without the essential element of world mission to all the peoples of the earth, a fellowship or local church is not a church in the biblical sense of the word. “What Local Churches Are Saying to Mission Agencies.” Keywords: church; churches; god; gospel; kingdom; missionary; missions; new; partnership; paul; philippians; work
• SOCIAL ACTION AND EVANGELISM: ENVISIONING A NEW RELATIONAL PARADIGM FOR 21ST CENTURY AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY by CARROLL, JAMES B. (2012) - Our frustrated voyager bears a striking resemblance to American Christianity in the 21st Century and the division in the highway he is traversing offers a distinctive symbolism of the present-day separation of social action and evangelism in the faith and practice of the Church. The relationship between social action and evangelism is as divided as the distinctive forks of that highway with little hope of reunion under present conditions and in the foreseeable future. Keywords: action; american; christianity; church; evangelism; faith; god; jesus; life; love; ministry; social; world
• gme-1039 by None (None) - As churches followed those at the frontier through preachers, evangelists, and lay leaders, new churches were planted but the new churches were not open to all groups. The overwhelming concern of the initial European immigrants was not evangelism or church planting, but to escape persecutions and create a space where they could live, worship and express their faith as they chose. Keywords: america; church; churches; culture; ibid; immigrants; new; people; planting; states; united
• gme-1040 by None (None) - To that end, Wax sets forth an argument balancing the true Gospel of the scripture against several counterfeit gospels that have infiltrated the church, highlighting all the while how only the true Gospel of Christ can satisfy where the counterfeits are cheap and empty. With this leg, Trevin Wax highlights the importance of the visible people of God as a necessary byproduct of the Gospel. Keywords: church; counterfeit; gospel
• COLONIALISM, NEO-COLONIALISM AND FORGOTTEN MISSIOLOGICAL LESSONS by Cooper, Michael T. (2010) - We recognize the contributions of western churches and missionary agencies in the birth and growth of churches in many parts of the Third World. Western church planters must strive to use indigenous forms of leadership and social organization to effectively contextualize the church (Hiebert 1994, 82). Keywords: american; christian; church; colonialism; forms; missionaries; missionary; missions; theology; western; world
• Suggested Guidelines for Contextualizing the Gospel for Modern Russian Youth by Harris, Mark (2010) - Alternate beliefs, values and attitudes from abroad are being assimilated by many Russian young people. Negative Experiences of Evangelism – Following the flood of Western evangelicalism into Russia, many young Russian people were trained with superficial methods of evangelism. Keywords: christ; church; culture; god; gospel; life; new; orthodox; people; person; russian; youth
• The Biblical Approach to Other Religions by Hedlund, Roger (2010) - The moral and justice requirements of Old Testament religion were established through Moses and proclaimed by the later prophets. Moreover the assigned topic, The Biblical Approach to Other Religions, contradicts the FOIM Conference requirement that it be presented from an Indian perspective! Keywords: christ; christianity; church; god; gods; human; indian; israel; jesus; job; lord; new; religion; salvation; testament; world; yahweh
• B4 Hope In Action: My Journey through Open Doors by Leonard, Juanita Evans (2012) - Was anyone going to be interested in a woman who had lived and worked in East Africa in family life education? The Migrant Ministry focused on activities for the children and young people while their parents worked in the fields. Keywords: church; family; kenya; life; mission; people; work; years
• C2 CALL AND RESPONSE: MUSICAL JOURNEYS IN MISSION by King, Roberta R. (2012) - He helped me to identify key components in studying African music cultures as we interacted weekly, one–to–one concerning music communication in Africa.[footnoteRef:3] As a result I began exploring the development of worship music in culturally appropriate forms and the ways in which it is employed. Keywords: church; communication; mission; music; nairobi; time
• Reviews of A Christian Folk Religion in India: A Study of the Small Church Movement in Andhra Pradesh, with Special Reference to the Bible Mission of Devadas and The New Wine-Skins: The Story of the Indigenous Missions in Coastal Andhra Pradesh, India by Richard, H.L. (2010) - New church movements across the globe defy neat characterization. A Study of the Small Church Movement in Andhra Pradesh, with Special Reference to the Bible Mission of Devadas P. Solomon Raj Centre for Contemporary Christianity: Bangalore, India 2004 and The New Wine-Skins: The Story of the Indigenous Missions in Coastal Andhra Pradesh, India P. Solomon Raj ISPCK: Keywords: church; raj
• A Case for Multicultural Church Plant by Emetuche, Damian (2013) - In many cities, immigrant churches and new church plants have difficulty getting a good facility where they can worship and organize many of their activities. What about language churches or ministry? Keywords: america; church; community; god; new; north; people; plant; states
• THEOLOGICAL CONVICTIONS FOR MULTICULTURAL CHURCH PLANT by Emetuche, Damian (2013) - All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:16-19). For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.” Keywords: christ; church; culture; father; god; gospel; ibid; jesus; john; life; ministry; mission; new; paul; people; world; worship
• Chronological Practices and Possibilities in the Urban World by Steffen, Tom (2013) - It has moved beyond written Bible stories printed in lesson format to help one become a better storyteller to oral Bible stories that can be heard, experienced, and practiced. The A Team center near Bangkok International Airport attracted students and professionals to their English language evening classes that included a bonus English time of Bible stories. Keywords: bible; book; christ; church; discipleship; evangelism; god; gospel; group; international; mcilwain; movement; new; oral; orality; people; stories; story; storying; storytelling; time; training; way; world
• Urban Church Planting as Spiritual Warfare (Part One) by Emetuche, Damian (2013) - It is actively being involved in the incessant warfare between God and the devil. It was not an organization or denomination but a reference to the transformed individual lives saved from the bondage of the evil forces to the kingdom of God. Keywords: church; god; israel; jesus; job; kingdom; lord; peter; testament
• Contextualization in Diaspora Mission: An African Christian’s Perspective of the Mission Agenda in the US by Gwamzhi, Ladep N. (2013) - Craig Ott argues that migration, which has recently been intensified by globalization, has played a significant role in Christian mission from the early church to date. African missiologist, Tokunboh Adeyemo sadly surmises: The most striking reality facing Christian missions in the world today is the decline of Christianity in the West, largely caused by a deadening, anti-Christian, humanistic, secularist philosophy. Keywords: christian; church; contextualization; culture; god; gospel; holy; jesus; missionary; people; spirit
• Is the Church for Everyone? Planting Multi-Ethnic Congregations in North America by Van Engen, Chuck (2010) - However, he has no chapter dealing with ethnic churches and nothing on ethnic church planting or the development of multi-ethnic churches. Thus it is imperative that we understand this dual nature of the Church when we consider the matter of planting ethnic churches and relate this to planting multi-ethnic churches. Keywords: america; book; christ; church; church growth; church planting; churches; congregations; context; cultural; culture; donald; ethnic; g.r; god; gospel; group; mcgavran; mission; multi; new; north; north america; people; planting; unit; universality; wagner; world
• FILIPINO INTERNATIONAL NETWORK: A STRATEGIC MODEL FOR FILIPINO DIASPORA GLOCAL® MISSIONS by Tira, Sadiri Joy B. (2010) - This consultation held in the Philippines would result in a spreading awareness among Filipino Evangelical leaders of the necessity to strategically train and prepare Filipino OFWs for their service in other lands, and would further connect Filipino Christians for a joint effort in fulfilling the Great Commission. These vital issues were: the need for prayer mobilization; the need for a communication tool such as a prayer bulletin or newsletter to link the network; leadership conferences for church leaders in strategic limited access regions; the need to minister and strengthen Filipino expatriate families7 through Family Conferences; the recruitment of teachers and trainers to conduct evangelistic and discipleship training in the 10/40 Window; and the need to expand the network into other countries where there is a high number of Filipino OFWs. Keywords: church; consultation; diaspora; filipino; fin; god; international; jesus; missions; network; north; prayer; window; world
• COMMUNICATING THE #GOSPEL MESSAGE WITHIN A POST-POSTMODERN, DIGITALLY CONNECTED CULTURE by Conner, Dustin (2013) - In post-postmodern digital text, authorship is always plural and exists in a structured hierarchy of the primary framer of the text who sets the rules of interaction for the secondary author who comments on the text. In this paper I examine the nature of the author, text, and recipient in post-postmodern communication and seek a contextually appropriate way of communicating the gospel in a digital culture. Keywords: church; communication; culture; gospel; grand; learning; new; paradigm; people; post; postmodern; postmodernism; rapids; text; truth
• PHOTOJOURNALISM AND CHURCH PLANTING: The Strength of Images and Storytelling in Planting Churches by Bunch, James (2013) - Published at www.GlobalMissiology.org, October 2013 Photojournalism might not be the first thing a person thinks about when the topic is church planting. At first glance, it may be difficult to connect this form of media to church planting. Keywords: church; missions; people; photojournalism; planting; story
• TO THE ENDS: THE FACILITATOR’S ROLE IN THE SYMPHONY OF MISSIONS by Stevens, Kayla (2013) - Biblically, the intertwining melodies of church planting movements are illustrated throughout scripture and incorporate many of the ideologies concerning the facilitator’s role in church planting. Church planting facilitators focus a specific amount of time on indigenous churches that seek to reproduce without the need of a foreign missionary. Keywords: church; churches; facilitator; movements; planting
• Church Planting as Spiritual Warfare - Part 2 by Emetuche, Damian (2013) - In other words, the mission and task of the Holy Spirit is to fulfill and actualize the victory of Jesus Christ here and now through conversion, regeneration of hearts, deliverance from a life of sin and satanic bondage, to faith and life in Christ Jesus. “Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. Keywords: acts; christ; church; god; holy; jesus; luke; mark; power; spirit
• gme-1250 by None (None) - This general procedure was probably followed in many early missionary undertakings (cf. Overseas as well as at home, there is a temptation to identify certain “abilities” or “competencies”; classify them as “gifts”; and choose church officers on that basis. Keywords: acts; church
• gme-126 by None (None) - We need to become world Christians in our outlook. Let's take a bird's eye view, so as to see the grand sweep of world history without getting bogged down in the details. Keywords: century; christianity; christians; church; god; history; people; population; today; world
• CONTEXTUALIZING WITH THAI FOLK BUDDHISTS by DeNeui, Paul H. (2010) - What Can We Learn from Thai Folk Buddhists? What Can We Learn from Thai Folk Buddhists? Keywords: animism; believers; buddhist; christ; christian; church; communication; folk; folk buddhism; forms; god; jesus; john; life; people; power; practices; spirit; thai; thai folk; thailand; world
• ETHNIC RECEPTIVITY AND INTERCULTURAL MINISTRIES by Wan, Enoch (2010) - Ethnic churches may begin with a monolingual immigrant congregation made up of OBEs. Many ethnic Canadians from Buddhist, Hindu, and Islam backgrounds take pride in their religious devotion, personal discipline, and ascetic deliberation of their ancestral faith. Keywords: canadian; christian; church; culture; evangelism; gospel; integration; variation
• Training leaders for the majority world church in the 21st century by Sills, Michael David (2010) - In conversations with church leaders from Hong Kong in the south to port cities along China’s eastern edge, the greatest need in China today is for leaders; more specifically, trained leaders. The list of men who developed and honed to precision this ingenious method of training leaders in the majority world reads like a “who’s who” of missionary greats: Ralph Winter, F. Ross Kinsler, Ted Ward, Sam Rowen, George Patterson, Sam Burton, Fred Holland, and Herbert Klem just to name a few (Winter 1969). Keywords: church; churches; cultures; ecuador; education; extension; latin; leaders; ministry; missions; new; pastors; people; press; quito; seminary; tee; theological; training; university; william; world
• Can It Be Bad When It’s So Useful? Management Science as a Carrier of Modernity by Wong, Chai Kee (2010) - Surely a good dose of well-regarded corporate practices can do church management a world of good! Church management should be an epitome of good management, so says the conventional wisdom. Keywords: christian; church; churches; companies; customer; god; good; leadership; management; management science; new; organisations; parachurch; people; science; service; values; work; world
• Classroom Instruction and Mentoring Compared by Patterson, George; Currah, Galen; Wan, Enoch (2010) - New leaders begin almost from the beginning to train newer leaders in newer churches or cells. Just as newborn babies need much personal attention, new leaders and new churches need mentoring until they are doing what the New Testament requires for them. Keywords: church; churches; classroom; leaders; mentoring; ministry; new; students; teaching
• Church Multiplication — Guidelines and Dangers by Patterson, George; Currah, Galen (2010) - Churches take the responsibility for planting new churches. New churches reproduce newer ones. Keywords: church; churches; god; jesus; leaders; multiplication
• Diaspora Mission by Seim, Brian (2010) - So, our city looks more like other cities around the world than the country of which it is part. My brothers went to smaller cities, maintained traditional lives. Keywords: acculturation; change; church; churches; cities; city; community; culture; god; joe; joseph; language; life; new; people; phone; robert; time; urban; village; work; world; years
• Chinese Confucian Christians: A Blended, Nuclear Identity in North America by Daban, Mary Roberts (2010) - In this study, I seek to discover the main components of Chinese Christian identity in North America. What is most important in the construction of Chinese Christian American identities, for example? Keywords: american; analysis; chinese; christian; church; confucian; construction; culture; family; focus; god; group; harmony; identity; identity construction; love; participants; person; relationships; ren; representations; self; study
• PARTNERSHIP IN ACTION - #2 by Wan, Enoch; Wan, Johnny Yee-chong (2010) - The resignation of Jaffray’ chairmanship has been clearly stated in The C&MA Annual Report for the year of 1930 which is cited from “The Annual Report of South China Alliance Mission, 1930,” in The South China Alliance Tidings (Wuchow, China, 1931-April No.2), 12. � Jaffray went to hear A. B. Simpson in person, and from that time he surrendered himself to Christ and gave his whole life to Christ for becoming a missionary for the Chinese people. Keywords: alliance; c&ma; china; china alliance; chinese; christian; church; east; field; god; indies; jaffray; leadership; life; ministry; missionaries; missionary; new; simpson; south china; tomatala; tozer; work; world; years
• gme-153 by None (None) - Church planting is no different. Church planting is an event, whereas cultivation is a process, which includes, preparing the soil, weeding, sowing seed, watering, fertilizing, protecting and reaping immediately when the harvest is ready. Keywords: church; harvest; india; planting
• gme-157 by None (None) - Business entrepreneurs start new ventures. In a diminutive analogy, business entrepreneurs see the potential for a business and through the exercise of their unusual gifts, call into existence all the production, marketing, sales, and distribution that make their vision a reality. Keywords: business; christian; church; country; entrepreneurs; god; missions; people; strategy; work; world
• Jewish Resistance to The Gospel by Brickner, David N. (2010) - Ministers who separate themselves from Jewish Christians and who eschew opportunities to tell Jewish people about Jesus out of respect and friendship for rabbis must ask themselves, how good a friend they are to the cause of Christ. Celebrated Yiddish linguist Leo Rosten gives a definition for the Jewish people when he quotes the anonymous saying, “Jewish people are just like everyone else . . . . Keywords: believers; christian; church; community; faith; god; gospel; history; identity; jesus; jews; leaders; need; new; people; resistance
• The Apostle Paul, Asian Diaspora and Mission by Franklin, Kirk (2010) - Hello Dale The Apostle Paul, Asian Diaspora and Mission Kirk Franklin - Executive Director of Wycliffe Australia (Permission granted by author for posting at Global Missiology, October 2006) I. Introduction This paper analyses the characteristics of the biblical Jewish Diaspora and the Septuagint Scriptures and synagogues that were important to them. Accounts exist of Jewish Diaspora settling in China (referred to as Sinim in Isaiah 49:12), India, Arabia and Ethiopia (DeRidder 1975:60-69). Keywords: asian; church; diaspora; jews; missionary; paul; people; synagogue; world
• Migration and the African Christian Diaspora in the United States: Imperative of Cross-cultural Mission by Ladep, Gwamzhi N. (2013) - The common argument promoting this theory is that homogenous churches grow faster than multiethnic churches. One area in which the Church in the United States can express her unity and promote God’s kingdom agenda involves building multicultural churches that incorporate diversity in ministry. Keywords: church; churches; diaspora; god; jesus; states; united
• Sex and Vulnerability: Casual Mission vs. Covenant Marriage by Tuggy, John D (2014) - �[� ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {citationID:nb7I5Zmi,properties:{formattedCitation:{\\rtf \\i World Vision International Accountability Report 2010\\i0{}; \\uc0\\u8220{}GDP 2010 (current US$) The mutuality of gift exchange puts local church partners on a more equal exchange, allowing the Northern partner – usually entering the partnership with a “giving” mentality – to experience the transformative effect of receiving. Keywords: \\i; biblical; church; citation.json; covenant; csl; csl_citation; god; items; language; master; mission; new; partnership; schema; style; testament; users/770342; world; zotero_item; � addin; � �
• Church Planting in the Slums of Bangkok: Moving from a Missionary Dependency Model to a Vulnerable Mission Model by Easterling, John F (2014) - Kevin studied on-site the ministry to the poor in Fresno, California and then he traveled to Manila to see how a network of churches is transforming the slum communities through a combination of church planting and community development. The number of house churches is in flux with some groups open for a season and sometimes reopening or reforming in other ways. Keywords: church; churches; community; house; kevin; missionary; thailand; walton
• Review of "Reproducible Pastoral Training: Church Planting Guidelines from the Teachings of George Patterson" by Currah, Galen (2010) - This book is not, however, a scientific study of how current church planting movements grow, nor does it propose an ideal curriculum in one size that fits all. Keep church body balanced; avoid stressing pet ministries. 39. Keywords: church; guidelines; training
• SCOPE OF UNHEALTHY DEPENDENCY by Hanger, Ralph (2014) - We have all probably looked in from the outside to other people’s situations (and even our own), and felt that foreigners are too much in control of local church work or decision making or resource use or have been ‘in post’ too long or have an irrelevant life-style and so on. When there is the mindset (either amongst Africans or people from the MDW) that feels that everyone who comes from the MDW is superior to local people, 2. Keywords: african; church; churches; dependency; mdw; mission; way
• Missiological Reflection on Acts 13 by Hesselgrave, David J. (2014) - Finally, notice that these “missionaries of the churches” were “called to a work”—to doing or aiding gospel proclamation and church planting. Missionaries went out from Antioch, but not “on their own.” Keywords: church
• Insights and Ironies: Some Contributions of African Missiology by Young, Peter R. (2014) - Adogame has proposed many different barriers that may explain why Europeans (for he is examining African churches in Europe) do not feel comfortable in African churches Adogame, 2007() , but largely it is their very African-ness that is the source of the discomfort. In the mid twentieth century, as colonial dominance declined and as there was a realisation of the value of African culture in itself without reference to Europeans, African Christians also began to rethink theology. Keywords: african; bediako; christian; christianity; church; churches; culture; faith; gospel; missiology; mission; theology
• Reflections on Reaching the International Student Diaspora in North America by Chinn, Leiton Edward (2014) - International students, scholars, and faculty, along with their families, constitute one of the sub-categories of temporary foreign residents. In 1975 at the world mission conference of famed Park Street Church in Boston, a former international student gave a powerful message, “The Great-Blind Spot in Missions Today” about ministry among international students, and how the Church often failed to see the tremendous opportunity and potential for world missions to and through foreign scholars. Keywords: america; campus; church; country; international; ism; ministry; mission; missionary; north; students; vision; world; years
• Diaspora Ministry to Muslims in Japan, New Zealand and Sweden by Cashin, David (2014) - I define these broadly as large church versus house church and multicultural versus culture specific. Larger Churches sometimes develop an interest in Muslims but I have noticed that some have picked up a significant number of Muslim seekers without specifically aiming for it. Keywords: church; churches; house; japan; muslim; new; sweden
• AN INTERVIEW WITH MOH-CHRISTOPH BILEK: ALGERIAN, BERBER, EX-MUSLIM AND CATHOLIC by Miller, Duane Alexander (2014) - 8) The Catholic Church has come under a lot of fire from ex-Muslim Christians for its statement on Islam in the Vatican II document Nostra Aetate , which states that Muslims ‘adore the one God, living and subsisting in himself…’ and does not recommend evangelizing Muslims, but to ‘work sincerely for mutual understanding and preserve…justice and moral welfare…’ (section 3). His doctoral thesis, titled 'Living among the Breakage: Contextual Theology-making and ex-Muslim Christians' was successfully defended at the University of Edinburgh in 2013. Keywords: christians; church; islam; muslim
• Case Studies in Missions by Hiebert, Paul G.; Hiebert, Frances F. (2010) - Finally, the church might follow the policy practiced by many other churches in Africa and deny church membership to Too Many Wives 41 polygamists altogether. Other churches in South India had found that where equality and a rejection of caste had been made a condition for entry into the church, many Untouchables entered. Keywords: ancestors; bible; case; chief; children; christian; church; churches; come; committee; country; culture; day; decision; elders; faith; family; father; felt; god; good; gospel; greg; help; high; home; house; husband; jesus; john; leaders; life; love; man; mark; marriage; matter; meeting; members; ministry; mission; missionaries; missionary; money; mother; mrs; need; new; parents; pastor; people; place; prayer; problem; reverend; right; school; son; spirit; time; village; way; wife; wives; women; work; world; worship; years
• There Are No Church Planting Movements in the Bible: Why Biblical Exegesis Missiological Methods Cannot Be Separated by Wu, Jackson (2014) - [20: For example, CPM practitioners lay special stress on the fact that CPM churches are led by locals rather than outside missionaries. David Watson, Vice-President of Global Church Planting with CityTeam International, is a well-known spokesman for CPM theory. Keywords: acts; bible; church; churches; cpm; cpms; paul; planting
• The Influence of Culture On the Evolution of Mission Methods: Using ‘Church Planting Movements’ As A Case Study by Wu, Jackson (2014) - Third, I give one explanation why the model survives despite a lack of biblical precedent.[footnoteRef:2] There are strong forces within missionary subculture that have enabled CPM theory to evolve into a popular ministry model. David Garrison is a leading spokesman for CPM theory. Keywords: church; cpm; culture; gentiles; gospel; planting; theory
• Church Planting Movements Are Consistent with the Teachings & Practices of the New Testament: A Response to Jackson Wu by Garrison, David (2014) - 171ff.] · Extraordinary Prayer · Abundant Evangelism · Intentional Planting of Reproducing Churches · The Authority of God’s Word · Local Leadership · Lay Leadership · House Churches · Churches Planting Churches · Rapid Reproduction · Healthy Churches These ten elements are found in every Church Planting Movement that have appeared in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Churches Planting Churches - were churches planting churches consistent with New Testament patterns of Kingdom advance? Keywords: acts; church; churches; planting; testament
• Biblical Hospitality & the Problem of the Caste System: Redefining Community in Hindu Background Believer Churches by James, Brian (2014) - The concept of purity and pollution further enhance the social separation occurring between different castes. Members from different castes are also now more likely to mix in social settings with the urbanization taking place in India. Keywords: caste; church; churches; family; god; hindu; hospitality; india; jesus; new; people; system; varna
• Michael Goheen’s “A Light to the Nations” by Akin, Paul (2014) - With the storyline of Scripture as his guide, Goheen traces the missional thrust inherit in God’s people from the formation of Israel to contemporary local churches. He argues that the biblical narrative presents a missional ecclesiology that local churches need to recapture today. Keywords: book; church; goheen; israel
• Logan, Robert. “Be Fruitful and Multiply” by Parker, Ryan (2014) - [8: Ibid, 14, 58] Logan states that first, he “hopes to convince the unconvinced” of the necessity of multiplication in church planting, not simply church planting itself.[footnoteRef:9] To this end, Logan attempts to provide biblical support for the “basic concept of church multiplication,” as well as discussing “many different ways God has called [every Christian] to be involved in church multiplication. In order for multiplication to take root in the DNA or the genetic code of a church and its hopefully subsequent movement of planted churches planting churches, leaders must be developed in order to lead from the “grassroots” level (Acts 2:37–41; Matt 9).[footnoteRef:17] Keywords: church; god; ibid; logan; mission; multiplication; planting
• The Great Commission In Reverse: The Greatest Opportunity In Missions History by Mayer, John A. (2015) - Thus, you can see the variety of glocal diaspora peoples spreading out around the world’s cities. Table 2, gives a small sampling of some of the glocal diaspora taking place in the cities around the U.S. Thus, you can see the variety of glocal diaspora peoples spreading out around the cities of the U.S. Keywords: church; cities; city; diaspora; god; groups; jesus; missions; people; twin; world
• Gospel-Proclamation In Missions: A Philosophy & Methodology by Burns, E.D. (2015) - As Paul modeled in each of his epistles, my aim is to predominantly teach gospel doctrine and accordingly proclaim its gospel application—gospel truths first, holy commands second; orthodoxy first, orthopraxy second. Paul says, In Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Keywords: christ; church; god; gospel; missionary; missions; paul; preaching; proclamation
• A Review of David Orton’s "Snakes in the Temple" by Eastman, Steve (2010) - Orton presents a convincing argument from the Greek that the word “office” was inserted into the translation of a key scripture to legitimize current church government. A Review of David Orton’s A Review of David Orton’s Snakes in the Temple Steve Eastman Published in “Review & Preview” www.GlobalMissiology.org January 2009 David Orton takes what is for many an obscure Old Testament scripture and uses it to diagnose a major problem with the Western church in the twenty-first century. Keywords: church; orton
• CHURCH IN THE KINGDOM AGE by McGatlin, Ron (2010) - The kingdom of God church reality must be revealed in our spirits. The major shift from the church or man emphasis age church to the kingdom or God emphasis age church is perhaps the most exciting event since Pentecost The outpourings of the Spirit that brought the Pentecostal revival of a century ago and the renewal revival of a decade ago have reset the stage. Keywords: church; god; kingdom
• Worldview, Challenge of Contextualization and Church Planting in West Africa - Part 4: Missiological Implications of West African Worldviews by Tuche, D. (2010) - They could open doors to reach 111“Black Immigrant Churches in the Republic of Ireland” This strategy will be in the form of house churches. Keywords: africa; christian; church; churches; evangelism; god; gospel; holistic; house; house church; immigrants; jesus; kingdom; language; life; ministry; mission; new; people; relationship; states; west; world
• Doing Missions as Participants in Diaspora by Dean, Marcus W (2015) - Enoch Wan has described missions from the diaspora as being either “Missions through the diaspora” which is reaching out through social networks or “Missions by and beyond the Diaspora” which is “cross-cultural missions to other ethnic groups in their host countries, homelands, and abroad” (2011b, p. 5). By embracing the attitude of pilgrim, diaspora Christians can recognize that what they have learning through adapting to a host culture is preparation for cross-cultural missions (Wan, 2011b. Keywords: church; community; diaspora; god; identity; missionary; missions; process
• Getting From Here to There: The Journey from Sending Churches to Church Planting Movements by Dent, Don (2010) - New churches begin from preaching and changed lives. New church starts are limited by finances. Keywords: believers; church; gospel; people; phase
• DESIRING THE KINGDOM IN MISSIONS: AN APPLICATION OF JAMES K. A. SMITH’S “LITURGICAL/ANTHROPOLOGY” IN A CROSS-CULTURAL CONTEXT by Wu, Joshua (2015) - We can now move forward to translate and indigenize worship practices; after all, practices need to be translated just as much as words do. Likely, such worship practices would be especially significant for oral learners. Keywords: christian; church; culture; formation; god; kingdom; liturgy; love; missions; practices; smith; worship
• OBEDIENCE-BASED DISCIPLESHIP by Pratt, Zane (2015) - 14 Clearly, the truth about God and his gospel is the essential foundation for Christian obedience. That transformation of being also must be in play at every step of discipleship, as gospel obedience is impossible without it. Keywords: bible; christian; church; discipleship; life; obedience
• Decisive Discipleship: Why Rapid Discipleship is Preferable and How it is Possible by Dent, Don (2015) - The rest of the week I ministered to the majority Muslim people of our province and it was obvious that new churches among them would have to be radically different. Then, a movement can begin as people hear the gospel, are transformed, share their faith, and encourage other new believers. Keywords: believers; christ; church; churches; discipleship; discipling; faith; god; jesus; new; paul
• From "Milk to Meat": Cultivating a Ministry of Multiplication and Maturity by Sundell, Jeff (2015) - Developing Competent and Confident Teachers of the Word Where church planting is the goal, the transition to indigenous or local leadership of new churches demands application of Paul’s instruction in 1 Timothy 3:1-7 and Titus 1:5-9. The Value of a Beginning Discipleship Package As new believers come to faith in Jesus Christ, like spiritual infants they need “milk,”—the basics of the faith. Keywords: church; disciple; god; word
• A Blended Church Model: The Way Forward for the American Church by White, Justin (2015) - If this is indicative of other U.S. cities, then it may be a difficult road ahead for traditional churches. [2: J.D. Payne has offered a helpful definition of traditional church in his book Missional House Churches:Reaching our communities with the Gospel. Keywords: church; churches; discipleship; gifts; house; making; model; new
• Churches and Missions Agencies Together Practical Missiology and Good Practices for Partnership by Wan, Enoch (2016) - Concluding Remarks This article has described the close collaboration of a pilot working group of missions agency and church leaders. About Us We, Churches and Missions Agencies Together, are a pilot working group of missions leaders of churches and missions organizations in Singapore who expectantly recognize that partnerships between local churches and missions agencies have immense potential to advance world evangelization. Keywords: agency; case; church; field; group; missionary; missions; missions agency; partnership; working
• GOD AND A GODWARD WORLDVIEW FOR THE IMB: CONCERNS ABOUT CPM THEORY by Hayward, Kenneth (2016) - The doctrine of God, it seems, is not the primary motivation in CPM theology. While many friends who accept CPM theology and their methods would likely acknowledge that God should be the core, and they might seek to show how he is central in their methods, he is not. Keywords: christ; church; cpm; god; good; gospel; jesus; life; lord; people; planting; theology
• ADVANCING AFRICAN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION THROUGH INTERCULTURAL TEAM TEACHING by GUNTER, N H. (2016) - ADVANCING AFRICAN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION THROUGH INTERCULTURAL TEAM TEACHING n H. Gunter Published in www.GlobalMissiology.org January 2016 ABSTRACT Contextualization concerns have dominated the conversation concerning the development of African theological education in recent years. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Nathan Gunter is an EdD student at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY pursuing research in the field of African theological education. Keywords: african; church; education; global; model; scholars; teaching; team; theological; theology
• An Overview of Christian Missions in Myanmar by Lim & Dengthuama, Theodore (2016) - There is hope that the lives and communities of Myanmar people would be transformed for the ministry to the poor in the country. Myanmar church leaders and foreign agency leaders have to take these challenges seriously: When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like the sheep without a shepherd. Keywords: baptist; buddhists; burmese; christian; church; churches; country; government; judson; life; mission; missionaries; myanmar; new; people; school; seminary; theological
• ISSUES IN PLANTING A MULTICULTURAL CHURCH by Emetuche, Damian O. (2010) - However, with the help of anthropology and ethnomusicology, we now recognize the difference in music style of different races and peoples group. Since then, church planting has emerged as a distinct subject within missiological world. Keywords: church; culture; god; gospel; growth; new; people; percent; population; states; style; vision; world
• Practitioner reflections on the methodologies of church planting movements in the Thai setting by Johnson, Alan R. (2016) - Traditional church movements and their fellowships, even if house-based, are observable and measurable over time and come with self-correcting mechanisms. For those of us who have worked in traditional church movements, closures are as much a part of life as new beginnings. Keywords: church; churches; cpm; cpms; groups; house; movements; people; thai
• A literature review of Thai leadership style with application to Christian leadership models and church governance in Thailand by Hilderbrand, Kelly (2016) - This means that Thai church leadership should not be as dictatorial as it has been in the past. I contend that this is detrimental to church growth and, based on the literature, I make several suggestions for mission agencies striving to indigenize Thai church leadership structures. Keywords: christian; church; client; governance; leadership; model; patron; people; structure; study; thai; thailand
• Legacy Church Pastors Need Not Fear Losing Leaders by Implementing a #NoPlaceLeft Strategy by Colyer, Aaron (2016) - � � ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {citationID:dLRmYbSN,properties:{formattedCitation:{\\rtf \\uc0\\u8220{}Releasing Your Best for the Mission of God,\\uc0\\u8221{} {\\i{}NAMB}, accessed August 24, 2016, https://www.namb.net/send-network-blog/releasing-your-best-for-the-mission-of-god.},plainCitation:“Releasing Your Best for the Mission of God,” NAMB, accessed August 24, 2016, https://www.namb.net/send-network-blog/releasing-your-best-for-the-mission-of-god.},citationItems:[{id:20,uris:[http://zotero.org/users/local/MzI7bUy1/items/D2AFXNNR],uri:[http://zotero.org/users/local/MzI7bUy1/items/D2AFXNNR],itemData:{id:20,type:webpage,title:Releasing Your Best for the Mission of God,container-title:NAMB,abstract:Academia and seminary can mess up some of our perceptions about developing church leaders for the...,URL:https://www.namb.net/send-network-blog/releasing-your-best-for-the-mission-of-god,accessed:{date-parts:[[2016,8,24]]}}}],schema:https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json} �“Releasing Your Best for the Mission of God,” NAMB, accessed August 24, 2016, https://www.namb.net/send-network-blog/releasing-your-best-for-the-mission-of-god.� �Anonymous (Joe). Churches that adopt these strategies always grow in size in addition to starting a multitude of new churches!” In that conversation, he continued to passionately cast vision for legacy churches. Keywords: church; churches; god; mich; mzi7buy1; new; planting; rapids; users; � �
• No Place Left: Strategic Priorities for Mission by Shank, Nathan (2016) - � Paul had an expectation for churches to follow the examples handed down to them. � Paul expected the churches he founded to join him in the “work” (1 Cor.15:58; 1 Thess. Keywords: acts; century; church; churches; cor; gentiles; god; gospel; mission; missionary; paul; romans; schnabel; spirit; work
• Apostolic Leaders: A Common Misconception of the #NoPlaceLeft Movement by Miller, Dave (2016) - Apostolic church planting patterned after the Gospels and Acts requires maturity among churches to sustain the movement. The very nature of a vision to see #NoPlaceLeft where the gospel hasn’t been pushes the church to extend it’s gospel witness beyond familiar cultures through the influence, leadership, and lessons learned from apostolic church planters. Keywords: apostolic; church; churches; gospel; leaders; movement; noplaceleft
• Vocational Witness in the Romanian Workplace: Realities and Responsibilities by Armstrong, Cameron D.; M., Tara; Cardell, Jeff (2016) - A unique blend of old and new Europe, Romanian business people often speak English well and are generally concentrated in larger cities such as Bucharest, Cluj, and Timișoara. Using qualitative data based on personal testimony from seven Romanians, this article examines how Romanian evangelical business people understand the missional task. Keywords: business; christian; church; disciples; faith; god; people; romanian; work
• CHURCH PLANTING BY THE BOOK by Elbert Smith by White, Justin (2016) - In the Foreword, Tom Elliff, past president of the International Mission Board, asserts, If I could have only one book on church planting, (other than the Scriptures, of course) this would be the book I would choose (9-10). This is a strong claim considering the recent increase of books on church planting. Keywords: book; church; planting; smith
• gme-194 by None (None) - The respected Canadian scholar Wsevolod Isajiw argues for this approach, First of all, the meaning of the concept of ethnicity depends on the meaning of several other concepts, particularly those of ethnic group and ethnic identity. Joireman's comments are similar: Race is a peculiar case of ethnic identity…[it] only indicates ethnicity in particular contexts (Joireman, Nationalism and Political Identity, ibid.). Keywords: approach; bosnia; church; collective; community; concept; conflict; culture; ethnicity; group; herzegovina; history; identity; leaders; myths; nationalism; nations; new; people; race; religion; rights; role; society; state; term; theories; theory; understanding; war; world
• gme-195 by None (None) - It is my observation that Christ is most central in multi-ethnic churches. There is also a discernable difference in the character of multi-ethnic churches that emphasize the gospel over a social agenda. Keywords: christ; christian; church; churches; culture; ethnicity; family; god; groups; identity; new; people; press; world
• The Practice of Diaspora Missions in Local Congregation: From Beginning to Base by Wan, Enoch (2016) - Active participation in diaspora missions (11:27-30, 13:1-3) · Giving willingly (11:27-30) · Praying earnestly (13:1-3) · Mobilizing for the practice of diaspora missions (13:1-3) PRACTICAL WAYS FOR LOCAL CONGREGATION PARTICIPATING IN DIASPORA MISSIONS: 4 MODELS, 4 STAGES AND 10 STEPS Traditional missiology Practical ways for implementation, such as the CORRECT approach in Figure 8 and the 10 principles/particulars of Figure 9, have been proposed to begin diaspora missions in a local congregation then subsequently develop it to become a base for future expansion and cyclical multiplication. Keywords: acts; antioch; church; diaspora; enoch; figure; missiology; missions; practice; relational; wan
• ISRAEL AND THE PEOPLES IN PAUL’S COVENANT THEOLOGY: PAULINE LITERATURE AND THE PEOPLES by Kreitzer, Mark R. (2010) - God does this not by destroying ethno-linguistic diver- sity but by expanding ethnic Israel to include the gentilic peoples without them being re- quired to become ethnic Jews by adopting the whole Mosaic code as was the norm in OT proselyte model. We are not winning people like ourselves to ourselves but sharing the good news that in Christ God has shattered the barriers that divide the human race and has created a new community. Keywords: abraham; christ; church; cor; covenant; creation; diversity; e.g.; e;qnh; ethnic; ethnies; ethno; faith; family; gal; god; groups; humanity; individuals; israel; jesus; jews; messiah; new; non; paul; peoples; rom; romans; unity; world
• Impact of the Local Church Showing Compassion: Lessons from the Syrian Crisis by Das, Rupen (2016) - Local churches need support in designing and reporting on aid received: One of the major complaints of donors against the work of local churches is that they don’t understand or appreciate the requirements of donors, and cannot write proper proposals nor provide reports or accountability as required. This paper shares lessons on local churches balancing providing humanitarian aid with its core identity as a church. Keywords: church; churches; community; compassion; god; muslim; need
• Orthodoxy and Soteriology Central Issues in Evangelizing Russians by Harris, Mark (2017) - Although only a small fraction of Russians were active in Orthodox churches, the identity and tenets of Orthodoxy had at least some influence on almost all Russians. A belief that the use of liturgy is not a proper means to worship will greatly hinder any communication with Russian Orthodox people. Keywords: church; evangelicals; ibid; orthodox; russian
• COMMUNICATING AND EVANGELIZING RUSSIANS BY AMERICANS BASED ON HOFSTEDE’S CULTURAL ANALYSIS by Wan, Enoch (2017) - Other cultures emphasize developing and maintain interpersonal relationships even if the task gets done more slowly. Some cultures see life as consisting of elements that can be separated from one another, whereas other cultures see life as a single tapestry woven into a unified whole. Keywords: church; evangelism; group; hofstede; people; person; russians
• MUSLIM REFUGEES IN THE UNITED STATES: HOW GOD VIEWS THEM AND DESIRES THE CHURCH TO FOLLOW IN OBEDIENCE by Coyle, John Courtney (2017) - In the face of great hostility by a large percentage of the American public, how should American church leaders and lay people handle the issue of Muslim refugees in the United States? North American churches, following their leadership, should welcome and embrace Muslim refugees who move into their communities by meeting their physical and emotional needs, and by engaging them with evangelism and discipleship, thus fulfilling both the ‘near’ (Judea and Samaria) and ‘far’ (the ends of the earth) aspects of the Great Commission in Matthew 28. Keywords: broadman; carolina; church; commentary; god; holman; jesus; muslim; nashville; new; north; refugees; testament
• DEFENDING OR DEFRAUDING THE FAITH: A PRADIGMATIC COMPARISON OF THE "THEOLOGY OF RELIGIONS" OF HENDRIK KRAEMER and JOHN HICK by Wan, Enoch (2010) - Contemporary evangelical Christians in are faced with an unprecedented challenge of other religions due to socio-cultural factors (e.g. demographic shift, popularity of pluralism, etc.) and theological shift from within, e.g. Pinnock (1991, 1992, 1994) in North America, Bosch (1991) of South Africa, Neil (1961) and Newbigin (1988, 1989) of the United Kingdom. 1.2 The Purpose and Significance of this Study Contemporary missiologists are aware of the problem that, many different 4 understandings and approaches to other religions, brings confusion to the Christian Church and missionaries (Beyerhaus 1971, 1972, Fellows 1988, Knitter 1985, Küng 1987, Gnanakan 1992, and Scheid 1992). Keywords: christian; christianity; church; comparison; deleted; faith; god; hick; human; jesus; john; kraemer; mission; new; religions; revelation; salvation; theology; tor; world
• APOSTLES THEN AND NOW by Ross, Chris (2017) - Therefore, the church must get back to the biblical model of apostolic church planting displayed by Paul if it is to recover its missionary heartbeat. Apostolic-like missionaries today should follow the model of Paul as he engaged new territories where the Gospel had not yet been preached, laid foundations for new churches, and then moved on to begin the cycle once more, allowing room for the new churches to grow and join him in the outreach he started. Keywords: apostles; apostolic; church; churches; god; grand; jesus; missionary; new; paul; rapids
• CHURCH-TO-CHURCH INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP: A CASE STUDY OF HOW A HAITIAN CHURCH IMPACTED A U.S. CHURCH’S UNDERSTANDING OF MISSIONS by Kisling, Reid (2017) - Implications for Practice Church leaders should be aware of the relational paradigm at work in missions relationships with other churches around the world. A representation of the shift in perspective by the church has been made from the pulpit several times that “We believe our missionaries are an extension of our church staff,” extending the church’s mission and global outreach into other areas where church members can’t be regularly. Keywords: church; churches; committee; gbc; missionaries; missions; support
• Contagious Disciple Making: Leading Others on a Journey of Discovery by Kreitzer, Mark R. (2017) - Traditional church planting “pulls people out of their silos to create a new silo that we call church,” Watson states, following McGavran’s teaching on extraction versus people movement strategy (Watson and Watson 2014, 107). They are not academic but motivational, extremely exciting yet blemished by the same imbalance promoted by father and son team of David and Paul Watson in this volume. Keywords: christ; church; david; disciple; elders; movement; paul; people; planting; teaching; watson
• SORCERY AND WITCHCRAFT IN FLORES AS A MATTER OF FACT AND THE DIVINE POWER OF SACRAMENTAL HOLYWATER by Jebadu, Alexander (2017) - Lastly, sorcery and witchcraft practice as a collaboration between evil humans and evil spirits to harm other human beings will not become a bygone thing as long as Satan and other evil spirits still exist. The use of these two terms, suanggi (evil spirit) and ilmu hitam (black science, black magic), indicates that sorcery or witchcraft in the view of the peoples of Indonesia is a system of science or of knowledge commonly used to harm other people by collaborating with and commissioning evil spirits as its principal agent to execute the harmful mission. Keywords: ata; catholic; church; evil; flores; god; harm; human; indonesia; island; janto; magic; manggarai; mediums; pendoa; people; power; practices; sorcerers; sorcery; sorcery mediums; spirits; victims; village; water; witchcraft; witches
• CONSIDERING A BIBLICAL MANDATE FOR PROVIDING HOLISTIC PASTORAL CARE TO DIASPORA POPULATIONS by Peyton, Joey R. (2017) - Once again, considering the definition of holistic pastoral care from earlier, Holistic pastoral care is meeting diaspora peoples holistically at the point of their felt needs while integrating their story into the Christian story and tradition making them to feel welcomed and part of the larger Christian community. However, the soteriological/evangelistic responsibility, coupled with the vast logistical needs of daily life (housing, food, education, safety, etc.), has largely precluded the ability of limited pastoral caregivers to provide holistic pastoral care to this diaspora population. Keywords: care; christian; church; diaspora; god; isaiah; needs; people; story; testament
• Historical study of Missionary strategies that sustained Christianity in Ethiopia and the Challenges to Contemporary Churches, Missionaries and Mission Agencies by Akintol, Daniel Oyebode; Alawode, Akinyemi Oluwafemi (2017) - “Ethiopia,” The World Factbook, Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency (2015), � HYPERLINK https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/et.html �https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/et.html�. Accessed: 9 June, 2017 “Ethiopia Profile.” History unveils it that, despite the distance maintained by Ethiopia to other Christian countries that could come to their aid during the jihad, the people of Ethiopia tried their best to dispel the enemy of their country and Christianity. Keywords: christianity; christians; church; country; ethiopia; ibid; mission
• 5Q: Reactivating the Original Intelligence and Capacity of the Body of Christ by White, Justin (2017) - In 5Q Hirsch argues that, “After 1700 years of entrenched European formulations of church, we have to acknowledge that much of it simply no longer works; the maps don’t fit the territories, and more importantly it does not fully square with the New Testament (xxiv).” In the Preface, Hirsch challenges the reader to read with “soft eyes,” looking beyond what has become over familiar and habitual with regard to church and ministry (xxi). Keywords: apest; church; hirsch
• The Minister is Lay: Social Organization in New Paradigm Christianity by Cornelio, Jayeel Serrano (2010) - To begin, in new paradigm Christianity, worship is understood as singing, dancing, and uttering one’s praises and love for the Divine as natural response to the sacred that is at work in the profane. This accounts for the importance of the community in new paradigm Christianity. Keywords: care; church; congregation; filipino; group; hope; individual; lay; leadership; minister; new; organization; paradigm; paradigm christianity; pastor; singapore
• Millennials, Missions, and Missio Dei: Bridging the Conversation (Part 1) by Gitau, Wanjiru M (2018) - In time, social development work came to be seen as a necessary appendage to the soteriological sort of mission work, although “social” kind of work has always accompanied Christian mission. Thus, after decades of developing successful companies, some wealthy people turn their success and experience to support mission work, and this is making the idea seem newly influential. Keywords: christian; church; god; millennials; mission; new; problems; work; world
• Anglicanism in Smyrna (1815-1923) by Royer, Chris (2018) - � � Smyrna was renamed “Izmir” in 1930; today it is the third largest city in the Republic of Turkey � S.W.H. Bird, And Unto Smyrna: The Story of a Church in Asia Minor. Keywords: Smyrna, Izmir, CMS, Turkey, missions, Anglicanism, Ottoman Empire, millet, Constantinople, tanzimat Bournabat, Boudjah Smyrna is affectionately known as “The Pearl of the Aegean Sea”. Keywords: anglican; boudjah; british; chapel; christian; church; cms; constantinople; empire; evangelist; greek; john; m.a; ottoman; smyrna; turkey; turkish
• Partnering with Latin American Churches to Complete the Great Commission by Nolen, Steve (2009) - Partnering with Latin Amer_Contextualization Partnering with Latin American Churches to Complete the Great Commission By Steve Nolen Steve Nolen is CEO Director, of Conexión 10/40, a missions organization that works alongside of Latin American churches sending missionaries into the 10/40 Window. Currently, the needs we are addressing are 1) to facilitate strategic partnerships between U.S. churches and Latin American churches sending missionaries to the 10/40 Window; 2) to develop a training center to train trainers in Second Language Acquisition, Church Planting Movements, and Strategy Development; and Missionary Pastoral Care and Spiritual Life. Keywords: american; church; churches; god; latin; missionaries; missionary; north
• Top Missions Sites by Staff, GM (2010) - MISSIONS - CYPRUS MISSIONS - EASTERN EUROPE MISSIONS - EQUADOR MISSIONS - EUROPE MISSIONS - FRANCE MISSIONS - GERMANY MISSIONS - GREECE MISSIONS - HONDURAS MISSIONS - HUNGER MISSIONS - INDIA MISSIONS - INDONESIA MISSIONS - INTERNET LISTS MISSIONS - IRAN MISSIONS - ISRAEL MISSIONS - ITALY MISSIONS - JAPAN MISSIONS - JEWISH MISSIONS - KOREA MISSIONS - MALAYSIA MISSIONS - MIDDLE EAST MISSIONS - MUSLIM MISSIONS - NEW ZEALAND MISSIONS - NORWAY MISSIONS - PHILIPPINES MISSIONS - POLAND MISSIONS - RUSSIA MISSIONS - SCOTLAND MISSIONS - SOUTH AFRICA MISSIONS - SOUTH AMERICA MISSIONS - SOUTHEAST ASIA MISSIONS - SPAIN MISSIONS - SUDAN MISSIONS - VIETNAM SAMPLE Keywords: bible; box; chee; christian; church; college; fellowship; international; ministries; missions; news; page; rick; usa; world
• gme-2134 by None (None) - Cochrane carefully traces the monastic training that monks received, including notions of Christian mission instilled in worship and spirituality. The history of Christian mission reaches the entirety, not just the Greco-Roman/European slice, of the world for which God cares deeply. Keywords: church; cochrane; mission
• Understanding Biblical Justice as a Desirable Framework for Participatory Development in Missions - by Gena Thomas by Thomas - Eastern University; www.genathomas.com; Connect@genathomas.com, Gena (2018) - By utilizing tools of participatory development through the lens of biblical justice, relationship building becomes a core aspect of missional work. That economic bias must be leveled out when missionaries choose to view the world through a framework of Biblical justice, a life of right relationships. Keywords: bible; biblical; charity; church; community; development; father; god; good; justice; life; love; missionaries; missionary; missions; new; participatory; people; word
• gme-2139 by None (None) - Masuzawa's intricately researched account of certain English language scholarship over that period outlines a transition from an apparently almost universal acceptance of the unique authority of church doctrine to Christianity's being seen as only one of many essentially 'equal' world religions. A visit to a Roho church would soon demonstrate that church doctrines are constantly being devised, and re-devised, honed, and adjusted to their own contexts through dialog conducted in their indigenous languages. Keywords: african; christian; church; churches; doctrines; lindbeck; religion; west; world
• The Holy Spirit’s Work and Power and Global Evangelisation - by Alawode Akinyemi Oluwafemi by Oluwafemi - Dept of Missions and Evang, Nigerian Bapt Theo Sem, Ogbomoso, Alawode Akinyemi (2018) - Therefore, “The activity of the Holy Spirit concerns the whole world when Jesus promises the Spirit’s coming and the success of world missions” (Schirmacher 2017:34). Keywords: Holy Spirit, Power, Global Evangelism Introduction “It is fashionable to say that we live in a post-Christendom situation” in which “The grip of Christianity on customs, laws, morality and education is a thing of the past” (Scherer 1981:9). Keywords: acts; church; god; holy spirit; mission; october; power; spirit; work
• A Higher Purpose for Your Overseas Job by Claro, A Pseudonym, Bert (2010) - No matter where you are or what you are doing, you can be sure that ―God is here and God is good!‖ God bless you! Almighty God says, “Look at the nations and watch—and be utterly amazed. Keywords: believers; bible; christ; christian; church; churches; faith; god; good; gospel; group; hhhiiiggghhheeerrr; home; jerry; jesus; job; juan; life; lord; missions; new; people; person; place; pppuuurrrpppooossseee; pray; prayer; tentmaker; time; work; world
• Culture Clash: The challenge of Ministering to Immigrants by Emetuche, Damian O. (2010) - The church may need to engage the services of a professional counselor to help victims like Vaster recover from the effects of long abusive and oppressive relationships. ”50 Vaster was already an adult when she joined her husband. Keywords: christians; church; culture; family; husband; letter; life; new; people; states; time; vaster
• Youth-Centric Movements: Trends and Challenges for The Modern Missions Movement in India - by Joseph Frederick Kolapudi by Kolapudi - Interserve Int'l; consultant with BAM and PourOut anti-trafficking initiative, Joseph Frederick (2018) - Recognition by the church of the large populace of youth within the rural and metropolitan areas should call for youth-centric movements to lead and equip emerging youth for the purposes of biblical and gospel outreach and engagement. The India Missions Association (IMA), a nationwide network that is the second-largest mission network in the world with over 250 mission agencies and churches, in 2004 inaugurated a national youth leaders conference, bringing together youth leaders from all over the nation. Keywords: church; engagement; gen; india; missions; movement; youth
• A CYCLICAL, GLOCAL DIASPORA CONGREGATION:A CASE STUDY OF THE FIRST FILIPINO ALLIANCE CHURCH FROM 1984-2007 by Tira, Sadiri Joy; Lightbody, Stuart (2009) - “Global Missions and Local Congregation: A Case Study of the First Filipino Alliance Church in Edmonton, Alberta (Canada).” A CASE STUDY OF THE FIRST FILIPINO ALLIANCE CHURCH FROM 1984 -- 2007 Sadiri Joy Tira and Stuart Lightbody Dr. Joy Tira Sadiri, Founder & Director of Filipino International Network Introduction There are two terms used in this brief story to describe the history and development of First Filipino Alliance Church (FFAC) in Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) – “cyclical” and “glocal.” Keywords: alliance; church; edmonton; ffac; filipino
• Review: "The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity" by Kreitzer, Mark R. (2010) - His vision of the heavenly city, The City of God, was a in- ternational metropolis that brings together “its citizens from every nation and assemble[s] a mul- tilingual band of pilgrims; not caring about any diversity in the customs, laws and institutions whereby they severally make provision from the achievement and maintenance of earthly peace.” 1 Augustine, Fletcher states, was further convinced that the end of the world was at hand. Both wings of the Christian movement that Fletcher studies decreed new legalisms for behavior. Keywords: augustine; christian; church; fletcher; god; roman
• Hasten, O Dawn: Teaching Church Reproduction Practices through Popular Narrative by Patterson, George (2010) - Pastor Arturo continued, “Carlos’ church is winning many to Christ by multiplying cell groups and new churches. False doctrine does not come from new churches on the cutting edge of a Spirit- empowered, church-planting movement. Keywords: arturo; carlos; church; churches; god; pastor; placido
• Rethinking the Great Commission for the African Context: A Proposal for the Paradigm of Relational Missiology (Part I) - by Enoch Wan by Wan - GM Founder; EMS Past Pres; Western Seminary Intercultural Studies Prof, DEd Director, Enoch (2019) - Here in this section, we will objectively critique “managerial missiology,” which is the popular way to practice Christian mission in the West in four aspects: focus, conceptualization, perspective and orientation (see Figure 2 below). Focus In managerial missiology, Christian mission emulates secular business management with its focus on programming and confidence in detailed planning for predictable results. Keywords: april; church; commission; context; escobar; igbo; missiology; mission; missionary; practice; world
• Jonathan Andrews, ed., The Church in Disorienting Times: Leading Prophetically Through Adversity - by Hanna Massad by Massad - Christian Mission to Gaza: Founder and Pres; PhD, Fuller Theo Seminary, Hanna (2019) - Middle Eastern Christians can thus bring hope and transformation in the midst of the suffering and hopelessness in their communities, such as the contributions many Christians have brought to the poorest areas in Egypt, including those inhabited by the garbage collectors in Egypt. In Syria various ethnic groups have suffered as well, but there many Christians have stayed and found opportunity to reach out in their communities with Christ’s love. Keywords: christians; church
• Understanding "Relationality" from a Trinitarian Perspective by Wan, Enoch (2010) - The phrase, “Immanent Trinity” refers to the self-revelation of just how the members of the Trinity relate to one another. Thus, for instance, Colin Gunton related an anecdote in which J.A.T. Robertson expressed his dislike of preaching on Trinity Sunday because of the feeling that the Trinity is a boring example of mathematics that do not explain what they seek to explain.[33] http://www.globalmissiology.org/english/docs_html/trinitarian/Wan_Hedinger_Relationality.htm#_edn31#_edn31 http://www.globalmissiology.org/english/docs_html/trinitarian/Wan_Hedinger_Relationality.htm#_edn31#_edn31 http://www.globalmissiology.org/english/docs_html/trinitarian/Wan_Hedinger_Relationality.htm#_edn32#_edn32 http://www.globalmissiology.org/english/docs_html/trinitarian/Wan_Hedinger_Relationality.htm#_edn33#_edn33 http://www.globalmissiology.org/english/docs_html/trinitarian/Wan_Hedinger_Relationality.htm#_edn33#_edn33 In A.D. 1932 Karl Barth explored the concept of the Trinity with an eye to understand God over against the thought patterns of modernity.[34] After Barth’s renewal of interest in the doctrine of the Trinity, Claude Welsh wrote his volume, In This Name, in A.D.1952[35] in an effort to revive discourse on the doctrine of the Trinity.[36] Keywords: church; doctrine; father; god; individual; members; persons; relationship; shedd; spirit; terms; theological; theology; trinity; understanding; unity
• gme-2287 by None (None) - David Smith Speaker Biographies · Frank Paul (58), member of an intentional community of families in Germany (www.ojc.de), 18 years of family & missionary collaboration in a slum in BsAs and with indigenous churches in northern Argentina. · David Smith was a pastor in Cambridge before moving to serve in Nigeria for five years and on many subsequent visits. Main ministries include: bible teaching to indigenous churches using East African languages, looking after orphan children who stay in his home, reading, writing and research related to mission, development, linguistics, and anthropology. Keywords: africa; church; mission; paper
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• Motus Dei: Disciple-Making Movements and the Mission of God - by Warrick Farah by Farah - Coeditor, Margins of Islam @ amzn.to/307zglI; cf. muslimministry.blogspot.com, Warrick (2020) - In practice, the difference between apostolic mission and indicative mission can be quite ambiguous (which points to their necessary integration). Apostolic mission seeks to glorify God by multiplying transformational churches among all peoples (Ott 2019). Keywords: church; dei; dmm; dmms; god; making; missiology; mission; movements; people
• MY TRIBUTE by Bosch, Roger (2010) - Microsoft Word - Roger Bosch_.doc MY TRIBUTE Roger Bosch, Associate Pastor of Evangelism and Missions. He modeled for us a lifestyle of costly discipleship, of a servant’s heart and of a quiet humility that was challenging and contagious. Keywords: church
• Michael T. Cooper, Ephesiology: The Study of the Ephesian Movement - reviewed by Tim Keene by Keene - Oxford Centre for Mission Studies: Research Tutor for NT Studies and Ethics, Tim (2020) - This choice is a happy one, as it enables Cooper to interact with a great deal of the New Testament, early theology, and early church history. It is the author’s comparison of CPM with the New Testament and early church history that provides the spine of the book. Keywords: book; church
• Spiritual Capital: How the Kingdom Spreads through Communities by Paul, Daniel (2020) - It is harder to achieve strong networks in cities when speech community members may be isolated in a sea of people from other communities – but all the more important to do so if their language and culture are to survive. The crucial insight here for understanding the sociolinguistic situation of a community is that its heart language(s) can be identified as those speech varieties in which community members are investing their social capital. Keywords: bible; capital; church; community; god; july; language; narratives; networks; norms; people; scripture; translation
• Disruption of Cross-cultural Mission: A Call to Lean into the Liminality by Gitau, Wanjiru M. (2020) - At the risk of being considered subversive, religious leaders are compelled to declare their political stance and support legislation which may involve making compromises on religious activity, including foreign involvement (mission work). The tendency of outsider (western) Christians is to spiritualize such matters and to assign categories that lessen the complexity so that mission work can seem to continue. Keywords: christian; church; disruption; mission; work; world
• Four Decades, Four Narratives: Political Disruption and Contemporary Mission Discourse on China by Fulton, Brent (2020) - Examining secular China narratives, former Los Angeles Times Beijing bureau chief James Mann alludes to this meta-narrative of political modernization in his critique of the “soothing scenario” that came to dominate American discourse on China following normalization of relations in the late 1970s. The experience of foreign Christian involvement in contemporary China provides an instructive case study of the relationship between political disruption and Christian narratives about the church and mission. Keywords: capacity; china; chinese; christian; church; churches; foreign; mission; narrative; new; pressure
• PDF icon opens file, then see top right for download. by GME (2020) - Bilingual proficiency is high, but the emotions are engaged mainly by the local language, which also helps define community identity. SIT says that individuals have social identities as well as individual identities. Keywords: african; article; bangladesh; believers; bible; capital; christian; christianity; church; churches; communities; community; context; culture; data; english; faith; family; global; god; gospel; group; identity; individual; islam; jesus; july; language; life; mbbs; missiology; missiology vol; mission; missionaries; model; muslim; new; paul; people; rom; self; social; spiritual; steadfast; translation; tree; use; vol; way; west; words; work; world
• gme-240 by None (None) - 3 Author Information Grant and Janice McClung, veteran Church of God missionaries, are concluding (on May 31, 2007) a special forty day observance, “40 Days for 40 Years (1967 – 2007),” celebrating the goodness of God in missions ministry (www.azusastreetandbeyond.com). In our own world missions journey, we can see the hand of God in missions miracles, missions modeling, missions mentoring, and a missions movement. Keywords: church; god; missions
• PDF icon opens file, then see top right for download. by GME (2020) - And church plants want multiple lights on a hill, lots of church communities on the landscape. In Kwok’s view, should it one day be necessary to face such situations, Hong Kong churches should “democratize” their institutional decision-making processes; in other words, the decisions made by leaders should be reached through a process of input from and consultation with their congregations. Keywords: american; authority; caste; central; change; china; chinese; christian; church; churches; class; community; costa; crisis; culture; development; father; foreign; global; god; gospel; government; help; hong; hybrid; india; jesus; kong; law; leaders; lord; missiology; missiology vol; mission; narrative; national; new; october; people; rica; society; son; spirit; spokane; time; tribe; trinity; united; urban; vol; work; world; years
• Inquire, Introspect, Involve: The Inquiry 2020 and Christian Missions in India by Manokaran, J. N. (2021) - “50-50 Democracy: India is a sinking boat for freethinkers” The Times of India E-paper (02 August), https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/incessant-musings/50-50-democracy-india-is-a-sinking-boat-for-freethinkers/ (accessed 17 November 2020). The research that was done through India Inquiry 2020 is also analysed for understanding the health and struggles of the Indian Church. Keywords: children; christian; church; digital; faith; government; india; november; people; survey; vision; website
• Globalization and the Language of Worship: Is the Spread of English a Boon or a Bane? by Dean, Marcus (2021) - He has given me abundant grace through different languages but the moment when I faced my God strongly was while I was praying in (first language) so I think they would may feel me more special anytime I pray in (first language) after that God still works in my heart with different language.” Keywords: church; english; god; heart; language; life; worship
• When ‘Go’ Becomes ‘Stay’, One Is Left to Ask, ‘Where Do We ‘Go’ from Here?’ Viewing the ‘Go’ of the Great Commission as a Command to Contextualize the Gospel to the Nations! by Peyton, Joey R. (2021) - Summary of Exegetical Agreement The defining of mission from the command to ‘go’ in Matthew 28:19, and the implications of its use (or the implications of not using this aorist participle with the main imperative verb ‘make disciples’), have been a significant missiological concern for very long time (Kvalbein 1988, 49). There seems to be only a rare argument among scholars that the aorist imperative μαθητεύσατε (make disciples) is not the main verb in Matthew 28:19-20. Keywords: church; command; disciples; going; imperative; matthew; participle; understanding; πορευθέντες
• PDF icon opens file, then see top right for download. by GME (2021) - “God is not Simple and the Biblical Trinitarian Doctrine: Restoring the Doctrine of Father-God from Contextualization Gone Awry 2” Global Missiology 17/1 (October). 1/26/2021 Global Missiology English ojs.globalmissiology.org/index.php/english 1/3 Current Issue Vol. 18 No. 1 (2021): January - Missiology as Leaven This issue explores a wide array of topics, just as leaven penetrates every part of dough into which it is placed. Keywords: article; believers; christian; church; command; contextualization; cultural; culture; disciples; english; eras; father; global; god; going; gospel; great; groups; heart; hiebert; history; identity; india; january; jesus; kingdom; language; life; matthew; metacognition; missiology; missiology vol; missions; models; movement; muslim; nations; new; november; online; paul; people; relationship; self; social; son; survey; time; trinity; understanding; vol; website; winter; world; worship; years
• Digi-Learning: Accelerating Theological Training and Leader Development during COVID-19 – A Leadership Laboratory by Handley, Joseph W. (2021) - A Microchurch Movement Herman Moldez from the Philippines and Adrian De Visser from Sri Lanka both believe God is using this unique sabbath season to forge a new form of church and a return to more organic, home-based models of church development (Moldez and De Visser 2020). But during the lockdown brought about by COVID-19, they are not worried and have been worshiping, hearing the gospel, and participating in church gatherings for what apparently has been the first time. Keywords: april; church; covid-19; digi; learning; march; participants; time; training
• gme-244 by None (None) - These interactions are important, for through them we are able to get some glimpses of Hindu attitudes toward Christianity. Studying these leaders will yield insights into Hindu attitudes toward Christianity. Keywords: attitudes; christianity; christians; church; conversion; gandhi; god; hindu; hinduism; india; jesus; leaders; missionaries; missionary; people; religion; society; teachings
• PDF icon opens file, then see top right for download. by GME (2021) - In contrast, in this current age of digital media countless people experience sex through the various offers made through internet pornography, rather than through an actual physical encounter. Rather than simply contributing to these powerful systems in an uncritical way, Christians should look for an alternative system based on the Garden of Eden—one that emphasizes shalomic relationships with God, the environment, and other people. Keywords: african; april; bible; christian; christianity; church; conversion; culture; digital; earth; eds; engagement; epochs; eras; frontier; global; god; gospel; history; home; influence; international; kingdom; learning; life; maasai; media; media engagement; media messages; messages; missiology; missiology vol; missionary; missions; models; movement; new; non; online; people; press; ralph; studies; technology; theological; time; today; training; use; vol; website; western; winter; world; york
• gme-245 by None (None) - Sen is a key figure in the Hindu dialogue with Christianity and is a pioneer in the development of Indian Christian theology, although he never became a Christian. Nevertheless a robust Indian Christian community adhering to the message of Christ, which they claimed had been handed down by St Thomas, was discovered in the fourth century by Syrian Christians fleeing from Persian persecution. Keywords: christian; christianity; church; dialogue; hindu; hinduism; india; january; new; nobili; ramabai; singh; theology; www.globalmissiology.org
• TYPES OF REVELATION AND “HOLY BOOKS”AND THEIR CONTEXTUALIZATION by Hesselgrave, David J. (2010) - In answer to the question, “How did you develop your ideas about Bible translation 50 years ago?” He writes: Political correctness can, I believe, influence Bible translation in spite of contrary intentions on the part of translators. Keywords: bible; christian; church; contextualization; god; holy; inspiration; january; meaning; new; paul; revelation; scripture; www.globalmissiology.org
• Challenges to Church and Mission in the 21st Century— The cultural landscape by Hasselgrave, David J. (2010) - But as you pastors and our contemporary missionaries minister during this challenging 21st century, I would encourage you to emulate the life and ministry of the founders and leaders of the Evangelical Free Church in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The truth is that the latest statistics show that many of those countries in the Western world that have nourished Catholic and Protestant churches and missions for centuries now have the lowest TFR (total fertility rate) in the world. Keywords: century; church; new
• S. T. Antonio, Insider Church: Ekklesia and the Insider Paradigm by Cheong, John (2021) - Conversely, IM churches have strongly practiced this. While Antonio fairly describes IM churches as “embryonic” and “emerging,” his critiques could be read as the need for “instant purity now” rather than the inherently long, generational change involved. Keywords: church; insider
• Global South Reverse Mission in Europe: An Examination of the Limiting Factors and Prospects by Oliveira, Sandro G. de (2021) - Without belittling the significant challenges for Global South reverse missionaries in Europe, it must be noted that most of the scholars questioning reverse mission discourse base their argument on its apparent lack of quantifiable success. The article concludes that, in spite of significant challenges, reverse mission can be considered a reality that offers a tremendous opportunity for the revitalisation of Christianity in the West. Keywords: christianity; church; churches; europe; europeans; global; june; mission; missionaries; reverse; south
• PDF icon opens file, then see top right for download. by GME (2021) - Defining reverse mission is actually not as strenuous as imagined. While we appreciate Oliveira’s affirmation that reverse mission is a reality, we need to resist the temptation to think of mission in the same terms in which it was carried and conducted across the Global South. Keywords: acts; apostles; april; book; christian; christianity; church; churches; community; eras; europe; frontier; global; god; history; international; jesus; july; kindness; missiology; mission; missionaries; missionary; models; movement; nehrbass; new; people; peter; ralph; reverse; south; study; vol; winter; world
• Losing Yourself for the Sake of the Gospel: Witness in the Early Church and Implications for Evangelism in Spain Today by Galyen, Deborah (2021) - Both offer examples of people “losing themselves”—renouncing their old ways, turning their backs on their old identities, behaviors, and familiar sources of security—for Jesus’s sake as they embraced new life and new identities as citizens of his kingdom. “Losing Yourself” in the First Centuries Far from being an unattainable idea, self-denial and obedience to the Way of Christ were normative for early Christians, Eckhart Schnabel argues. Keywords: believers; christians; church; gospel; jesus; life; new; self; world
• PDF icon opens file, then see top right for download. by GME (2021) - As most Maasai churches are overwhelmingly female (see Hodgson 2005), it is important that the voices of Maasai Christian women (inkituaak) are not silenced. In the specific context of the Maasai people of East Africa, “While there are certainly areas where Maasai culture can benefit from Christian transformation, a recovery of traditional Maasai cultural values through a theologically robust process of inculturation can strengthen the Maasai churches as well” (Barron 2019, 17). Keywords: african; apologetics; bible; christian; christianity; church; context; culture; digital; engagement; erlo; faith; fleischmann; global; god; gospel; harms; hermeneutics; jesus; life; maasai; ministry; missiology; mission; new; october; paul; people; readers; scripture; self; stegen; theology; vol; world; youth
• Rapid Kingdom Advance: How Shall We View It? by Coles, Dave (2022) - Is rapid growth a goal of CPM? Does rapid growth lead to superficial and fragile faith? Keywords: church; cpms; god; growth; jesus; kingdom; movements
• PDF icon opens file, then see top right for download. by GME (2022) - Critics and skeptics may see the current evangelical missions movement movement” as little more than the latest fad that will soon morph into the next decade-long obsession. Movement Catalysts: The Profile of the Leaders God Uses to Catalyze Movements. Keywords: approach; catalysts; catalyzing; church; city; competencies; contributing; difference; factors; faith; god; gospel; group; growth; healing; internal; january; jesus; kingdom; leaders; leadership; migrants; ministry; missiology; missiology vol; movement; movement catalysts; new; non; people; planting; research; study; table; time; traits; vol; work; world
• Education, Orality, and the Great Commission by Ajibade, Ezekiel Adewale (2022) - Key Words: Christian education, gospel communication, Great Commission, orality, theological education Introduction The Great Commission is the marching order that Jesus gave to the Church to win the world. It is, therefore, a challenge for all who are involved in education for the Great Commission to evaluate and assess how education has been done—be it through preaching, Christian education, theological education, or general education. Keywords: christian; church; commission; education; good; jesus; orality; theological; world
• PDF icon opens file, then see top right for download. by GME (2022) - Key Words: Afghanistan, Hazara, mission studies, missionary, people group, unreached Introduction The Hazaras comprise one of the 14 recognized ethnic groups of Afghanistan, according to the 2004 constitution (“CIA World FactBook: Afghanistan” 2021). “Partnership is the solution to a problem many people don’t feel or don’t have. Keywords: afghanistan; april; book; christian; church; commission; community; education; evangelism; global; god; good; gospel; group; hazara; hazara people; issn; jesus; kingdom; leadership; missiology; mission; missionaries; movements; need; network; new; orality; people; rhodes; success; theological; vol; work; world
• MISSIOLOGY AS A DISCIPLINE: A BIEF INTRODUCTION by Blomberg, Fran (2010) - Historical survey: Missiology in the scope of theology Historically, when Mission was the fundamental expression of life in the church, its study was simply accepted as an organic part of theology. The study of missiology again becomes more of a core feature of theology. Keywords: church; missiology; mission; study; theology
• Early Korean Mission Strategy and Structure 1880-1940: Bridging the Gap Between Traditional Mission Methods and Church Movements by Seipp, Derek; Kwon, Jeff (2022) - Furthermore, Bible study leaders were given more Bible studies to use until the next regional training. As schools and hospitals grew, evangelists and church leaders were often targeted as primary candidates to manage such projects. Keywords: bible; church; korean; leaders; mission; missionaries; nevius; new; study
• Facing Our Fears of Engaging Muslims and Strategies for Navigating Them by Urton, Mike (2022) - Such training should include elements like understanding American Muslim attitudes, examining the similarities between American Muslims and Evangelicals, the necessity of interpersonal interactions, and an emphasis on Jesus's teachings to love our enemies. Regarding the attitudes of American Muslims, a 2017 Pew Forum study found that many American Muslims (55 percent) believed that other Americans are friendly towards them in general. Keywords: american; christians; church; fear; mosque; muslims; study
• Discussing and Catalyzing Movements: An Invitation to Research, Sacrifice, and Commitment by Arlund, Pam; Farah, Warrick (2022) - Abstract As a global discussion and a significantly large phenomenon in the world today, church planting movements (CPM) or disciple making movements (DMM) have attracted much attention and enthusiasm in the missions community. Dave Coles contributed a critical review of the book that represented the perspectives of many who are engaging church planting movements (Coles 2022). Keywords: church; churches; dei; disciple; global; missions; motus; movements; planting; rhodes; shortcut
• Advancing Conversations about Proclamational and Movements Methodologies by Rhodes, Matt (2022) - This article provides constructive critique of movements methodologies, addresses responses to previous critique, and suggests paths for conversation going forward. Certainly, heated debate has erupted over movements methodologies. Keywords: arlund; church; coles; farah; methodologies; missionaries; movements; people; rhodes; shortcut
• PDF icon opens file, then see top right for download. by GME (2022) - Dave Coles contributed a critical review of the book that represented the perspectives of many who are engaging church planting movements (Coles 2022). Instead, we—this article’s co-authors who write as part of the facilitation team of the Motus Dei Network, described below—would like to take a step back and engage the approach of No Shortcut in a way that will facilitate the wider discussion about church planting movements and disciple making movements, particularly in the Western missions conversation. Keywords: africa; arlund; believers; bible; book; century; christ; christian; church; churches; coles; disciple; faith; farah; global; god; gospel; growth; issn; jesuits; jesus; july; language; leaders; methodologies; ministry; missiology; missiology issn; mission; missionaries; missionary; movements; muslims; new; paul; people; planting; rhodes; shortcut; study; time; today; training; vol; way; weakness; work; world; years
• Missiological Implications of Pietism for Protestant African Christianity by Adebayo, Samson O.; Alawode, Akinyemi O. (2022) - Sadly, many African Christians erroneously believe that politics is a dirty game. Even so, because of a lack of leadership training many African Christians do not know what to do in high offices. Keywords: african; century; christianity; christians; church; faith; gospel; jesus; pietism; religion; society
• Warrick Farah, ed., Motus Dei: The Movement of God to Disciple the Nations by Jeyaraj, Dasan (2022) - It is a compendium that investigates and documents how God is using movements to advance Christ’s kingdom across the world. The conversation around “movements” is ongoing and is in the process of maturing, even as its definition continues to evolve. Keywords: church; dei; god; motus; movements; people; studies
• gme-2700 by None (None) - Key Words: Holy Spirit, missions, Pentecostalism, urban  Introduction One of the great movements in Christian history that have shaped the life of the Church and recovered particular biblical experiences is Pentecostalism. The first is the burning passion for taking the gospel to the heathen as the Holy Spirit inspires believers. Keywords: christian; church; god; holy; missions; nigeria; pentecostalism; power; spirit; urban
• No Longer the Same: Pentecostal Mission in Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa by Sallu, Michael (2022) - Various studies, for example, show that a new youth culture is growing in Africa, one that diverges from traditional African cultures and is more aligned with Western cultures (Sallu 2021, 136–152). The leaders’ observation in this regard resonates with findings of other studies of African youth (Negash 2011; Plonski et al. 2013; Prempeh 2020). Keywords: african; church; leaders; ocean; pentecostalism; sallu; youth
• PDF icon opens file, then see top right for download. by GME (2022) - Key Words: CAMEL Method, church planting movements, “God is doing a new thing,” “led by the Spirit,” Kingdom Movements Introduction The last 30 years of mission strategy have seen a veritable explosion of new approaches: insider movements, church planting movements (CPMs), disciple multiplication movements (DMMs), Zúme, New Generations, the Oikos method, and more. Church planting movements. Keywords: african; article; camel; catalysts; christian; christianity; church; churches; culture; example; faith; global; god; gospel; growth; holy; holy spirit; house; impact; issn; jesus; john; leaders; life; missiology; missiology issn; mission; movement; muslims; new; ocean; october; pentecostalism; people; planting; power; research; september; signs; spirit; urban; vol; wonders; work; world; youth
• Happily Surprised by Works of God’s Spirit by Coles, Dave (2023) - News of a revival usually travels rapidly, and sometimes the reports of revival—in person, print, or broadcast media—touch off new revivals in distant localities. Waugh elaborates: “Many historians wrote from the perspective of the established church, which often opposed and suppressed revival movements…. Keywords: church; churches; cpms; disciple; god; mcclymond; movements; people; revivals; spirit
• The Church Planting Movement Debate: Getting to the Heart of the Matter by Irons, J. A. (2023) - I see nothing wrong with this since there is much good that can be learned from movement proponents, such as their passion for the lost and emphasis on prayer. A Concluding Word on Relationships While harsh words like “sinister” and “heresy” have been used by critics to label movements or movement proponents, they are not the prevailing view (DeMars & Berger 2021a; Mark Dever on Church Planting Movements, 2019). Keywords: biblical; church; critics; god; methods; movements; planting; proponents
• Mission and Disintegration in Global Anglicanism from the 1960s through 2022: An Update to Stephen Neill’s Anglicanism by Miller, Duane Alexander (2023) - For instance, the Episcopal Church in Brazil (Anglican Communion) has in many cases embraced SSM and the ordination of non-celibate LGBTQ people; likewise, there are some dioceses in the West that are still conservative—though most have left or been forced out and have gone to new, non-Communion jurisdictions or Rome. At this 2022 Conference, a group called the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA) sought to reaffirm that Lambeth 1998 1.10 was still the official position of the Communion. Keywords: anglican; bishops; church; communion; conference; gafcon; lambeth; provinces
• Reformed Theology and Movements: What Can We Learn from Each Other? by Stevenson, J. R. (2023) - Church planting movements: How God is redeeming a lost world. Developing pastors and teachers within the fivefold framework of Ephesians 4:11 to sustain church planting movements. Keywords: believers; church; god; group; movements; people; reformed; scripture; study; theology; word
• Kiem-Kiok Kwa and Samuel Ka-Chieng Law, eds., Missions in Southeast Asia: Diversity and Unity in God’s Design by Teng, Tai Kim (2023) - The multifaceted interaction of the gospel with the people grants the reader deeper insight and better understanding of the unique identities of indigenous Christianity that has evolved in each country over each era. Due to a paucity of Christian literature on Southeast Asian missions, this book is indeed timely and will become essential reading material for all scholars and practitioners interested to understand Christian missions in Southeast Asia. Keywords: asia; christianity; christians; church; missionaries; percent; southeast
• Whole Issue PDF: PDF icon opens file, then see top right for download. by GME (2023) - I believe God can and does move in powerful ways among people, and has done so for ages in various forms—in revivals, people movements, and church planting movements. Church planting movements: How God is redeeming a lost world. Keywords: 2018; anglican; article; believers; bible; biblical; book; christian; christianity; church; church planting; churches; communication; communion; critics; culture; faith; generation; global; god; gospel; group; issn; january; john; life; missiology; missiology issn; missionaries; missionary; missions; movements; need; new; people; planting; practices; proponents; reformed; religion; revivals; scripture; spirit; study; theology; time; training; twenge; vol; work; world; yong
• PDF icon opens file, then see top right for download. by GME (2023) - Finally, powerful personal testimonies demonstrate the pain of being Uyghur and also provide vision for Han Christians to sacrificially love their Uyghur neighbors, including even to enter into their persecution, and be truly set apart from the prevailing, Uyghur-deprecating culture of the Han. How might all Christians, especially Han Christians, understand the event in light of Ephesians 2:11-12? Keywords: american; article; attacks; believers; cameroon; chinese; christianity; christians; church; churches; communities; community; faith; generation; global; god; gospel; han; india; issn; issue; jesus; land; leaders; leadership; manipur; missiology; missiology issn; movement; myanmar; needs; new; north; october; organizations; paul; people; persecution; prayer; research; states; suffering; survey; time; tribal; united; uyghur; violence; vol
• PDF icon opens file, then see top right for download. by GME (2023) - Institutions of theological education play an important role in equipping the people of God to carry out the educational mandate. The articles in this Global Missiology - English theme issue on “Theological Education and Mission” examine specific aspects of theological education in a variety of cultural contexts. Keywords: african; april; asbury; christian; church; churches; context; cultural; cultures; education; focus; function; global; god; harries; honor; institutions; issn; leaders; missiology; missiology issn; mission; missionaries; missionary; model; need; new; people; prophets; role; shame; students; theological; theology; training; vol; world
• A Giant on Clay Legs? African Theological Education and the Formation of Missiocentric, Missionary-sending Church Leaders by Howles, Christopher D. (2023) - The Relationship Between Theology and Missiology in African TEIs The apparent consensus among African scholars is that the failure of some African TEIs to effectively internalize mission into their theological education is primarily because, begat from Western mission churches, Western missionaries, and Western denominations, many African TEIs inherited introverted, mission-deprioritized Christendom-based educational paradigms during the eras of colonial (and post-colonial) subjugation. However, the concept itself can be traced as far back as the International Missionary Council’s Willengen conference in 1952, and even to Karl Barth’s seminal 1932 paper “Die Theologie und die Mission in der Gegenwart” (“Theology and Mission in the Present Situation”), in which he sought to locate the Church’s missionary identity in God’s trinitarian being and thus christened the Church as “a human community called to the act of mission” (as cited in Guder, 2015, p. 8). Keywords: african; church; education; god; missiology; mission; missionary; theological; theology
• Prophets in the Seminary: The Prophetic Function as a Means of Maintaining Missional Focus in Theological Education by Hirt, Matthew D. (2023) - It then demonstrates the need for the prophetic function in TE institutions by describing two forms of institutional drift. Finally, the article recommends the role that individuals fulfilling the prophetic function may play in calling TE institutions to refocus on the missionary task. Keywords: church; focus; function; god; institutions; prophets
• Strengthening Spiritual Reconciliation through Theological Education: A Soul-Forming Conversation by Palafox, Omar (2023) - Theological education strengthens conversations while harmonizing with the Spirit of God. A method for following the Spirit of God will enhance the spiritual formation and the proper involvement of students in theological education. Keywords: church; collaboration; education; god; latin; mission; reconciliation; soul; theology
• Review of "No Limitations: Brother Shen Xiao Feng – his story and writings" by Doyle, Wright (2010) - Though Shen admits that there are believers within the TSPM, he states that its continued persecution of house churches, subservience to the government, and promotion of non-biblical theology (at the top; most at the local level are orthodox) make widespread close cooperation with house churches impossible. Not that house churches have no serious flaws. Keywords: china; church; house; shen
• Standing Up with the Persecuted Christians in India: Responses of Select Transnational Indian American Christians to the Christian Persecution in India by George, Geomon (2023) - A youth leader at Bethel Worship Center, Shawn Abraham (2023), wants to find out what Indian American Christians can do that can help suffering Indian Christians in their everyday lives: “We have lots of resources, but how do we get it to people in need?” This article will focus on ways in which Indian American Christians living in the United States are mobilizing in different ways to respond to this crisis. Keywords: american; christians; church; communication; indian; persecution; prayer; states; united; violence
• Pioneering Precision and Transparency in Mission Work by Martin, Dwight (2024) - When AFT church planters venture into a new village, they traverse every road and lane in search of “persons of peace” (Luke 10). Figure 3: KapTrack Map (eSTAR Foundation n.d.c.) AFT church planters make repeated visits to the villages, discipling the new believers and as a result many choose to be baptized. Keywords: aft; church; churches; data; harvest; kaptrack; mission
• PDF icon opens file, then see top right for download. by GME (2024) - Especially given his recognized status as a Christian leader, as well as given the wide scope of how the Lord of Hosts uses people as part of his mission, Francis’s message is closely connected to, indeed part of, Christian mission—even if such a message is not part of Christian missions per se. A question: How might Francis’s message have been connected to Christian mission? Keywords: aft; christian; church; churches; data; faith; fleming; global; god; harvest; issn; january; jesus; kaptrack; lausanne; leaders; learning; missiology; mission; missionary; movement; new; people; self; students; vol; world
• Maternal-thinking, Missio Dei, and Managerial Missiology: A Colombian Case Study by Rheinbolt-Uribe, Renee (2024) - Instead of fighting with their children over their involvement in this new denomination, many mothers “leaned in” and became a part of the congregation. I have been transformed by being immersed in the Colombian culture and with Colombian mothers. Keywords: article; case; christian; church; family; god; missiology; mission; motherhood; mothers; systems; theology; thinking; usa; women
• PDF icon opens file, then see top right for download. by GME (2024) - Rather, what is germane here are the implications of movement in the other direction: (secular) anthropologists researching Christianity and, at least to some extent, other people’s ways of life as if they were theological systems. Traditionally at least, sociology is the study of one’s own people, while anthropologists set out to explore other people, their cultures and ethnicities (BJYU’s 2024; Bodenheimer 2019). Keywords: african; anthropologists; anthropology; april; article; augustine; book; christian; christianity; church; family; global; god; history; hope; independence; issn; japan; japanese; jesus; korea; lamb; missiology; missiology issn; mission; missionaries; motherhood; mothers; movement; new; people; research; study; theology; thinking; vol; vähäkangas; western; women; world
• Transforming Thailand: The Vision, Mission, and Impact of The Association of Free Churches in Thailand by Martin, Dwight (2024) - Therefore, AFT church leaders do not compel attendance at a district church or adherence to various Christian regulations typically expected of new “converts” in the traditional sense. As AFT church planters brought the message of Jesus and the Kingdom of God to each village, they diligently formed house churches, fostering spiritual growth and community engagement. Keywords: aft; church; churches; discipleship; gospel; house; jesus; martin; thailand
• PDF icon opens file, then see top right for download. by GME (2024) - Therefore, AFT church leaders do not compel attendance at a district church or adherence to various Christian regulations typically expected of new “converts” in the traditional sense. These individuals are earmarked by AFT leaders for specialized training to fulfill the responsibilities of house church leadership. Keywords: aft; asbury; china; christian; church; churches; collaborative; culpepper; disciple; february; global; god; gospel; issn; jesus; july; leadership; life; making; missiology; mission; new; outpouring; people; process; revival; shandong; spirit; team; thailand; time; university; vol; world
• Crucial Issues in a New Era of Church Planting by Robinson, George G. (2009) - Because we need healthy churches, I have asked Dr. Benjamin Merkle to write on the subject of biblical leadership within the context of church planting. Though church planting may now seem obvious as a strategic goal for missions, how to do it best is still a potentially contentious matter. Keywords: church; planting
• Eclipse of the Son: The Fate of the 1880s Revival in Meiji Japan by Whyte, Greg S. (2024) - Abstract Japanese Christianity in the 1880s was experiencing significant growth, so much so that missionaries were proclaiming that Japan would become the center of East Asian Christianity by the turn of the century. The values inherent in missionary Christianity consequently came into conflict with the traditional family values and beliefs of Japan—including arranged marriages, communal rituals, and ancestral veneration, so perseverance of individual Christians and retention within the church became more difficult. Keywords: 1880s; christianity; church; growth; japan; japanese; missionaries; revival; yamamori
• The Theological Voice of a Poor Man in a Desert: Right for Africa? by Harries, Jim (2024) - Key Words: Africa, contextualization, missions, Church, Monasticism, Egypt, theology Abba Matta, or Father Matta El-Meskeen, is often translated into English as “Matthew the Poor.” In this article I will use the Arabic designation Abba Matta (“Father Matthew”). Keywords: abba; africa; church; desert; life; matta; matthew
• Mission Dynamics Among Biharis: Toward Contextualized Approaches by Kumar, Santosh; Gayen, Chanchal; Dias, Marcelo (2024) - Key Words: Bihar, Christian mission, contextualization, culture, India, missionaries, traditions Introduction “Why are you preaching a foreign religion?” is a common question posed to mission workers in India because of how Christianity is perceived to be a foreign belief system. Since its inception in Bihar, Christian mission has had limited success, with Christians comprising only 0.12% of the population (Kramer, 2021). Keywords: bihar; christian; christianity; church; contextualization; culture; faith; family; god; gospel; india; mission; missionaries; new; practices; worship
• PDF icon opens file, then see top right for download. by GME (2024) - Rather, they insisted on retaining Christian identity for the ostensible purpose of witnessing of their new Islamic faith. Hybridity and Christian identity. Keywords: abba; african; bihar; christian; christianity; church; churches; communities; community; culture; digital; divina; emojis; faith; global; god; gospel; growth; hindus; history; identity; india; islam; issn; japan; japanese; jesus; matta; missiology; missiology issn; mission; missionaries; muslim; new; october; participants; people; practices; prayer; religion; research; theological; visio; vol; world; worship; youth
• Lalsangkima Pachuau and Allan Varghese Meloottu, eds., Christians and Christianity in India Today: Historical, Theological and Missiological Assessments by Manokaran, J. N. (2025) - Three matters deserve special attention when considering North India. Second, North India is home to the most persecuted Christians. Keywords: christianity; christians; church; india; today
• PDF icon opens file, then see top right for download. by GME (2025) - While some might consider Christianity to be ethereal religious sentimentality, this issue's articles and book reviews offer examples of how followers of Jesus Christ must constantly engage particular struggles, questions, and blessings--all according to God's gracious supervision and care. Following Jesus Christ involves nitty-gritty, everyday living. Keywords: believers; bible; book; christian; church; community; context; dbs; disciple; dmm; face; faith; global; god; gospel; honor; individuals; issn; issues; january; jesus; life; making; missiology; missiology issn; mission; model; movements; new; people; peter; population; practitioners; rate; receptivity; relationships; shame; study; suffering; time; vol; world
• The Lausanne Movement’s Missiological Implications for Theological Education in Korea by Lee, Bright Myeong Seok (2025) - In edited by Korea Lausanne Committee, History and Praxis of Lausanne Movement. In edited by Korea Lausanne Committee, Lausanne Movement and Mission. Keywords: acts; church; congress; global; korean; lausanne; lausanne congress; mission; movement; theological; world
• The “Ralph Winter Moment” of Lausanne IV: Workplace Mission by Joe, Richard (2025) - At the Fourth Lausanne Congress in Seoul-Incheon, the concept of “workplace mission,” as presented by Julia Garschagen, has the potential to reshape the next 50 years of missions. This article will discuss the strategic value of workplace mission and the main barriers that need to be overcome to implement it. Keywords: christians; church; garschagen; mission; missionaries; workplace; world
• STRIVING TOWARDS A THEOLOGY OF PERSECUTION by Tiesze, Charles L. (2010) - When they are, it is most often the former which garner the full attention of the Church leaving victims of religious persecution without the advocacy they need and without a strong ability to theologically reflect upon or respond to their experience. For instance, a pastor in former Czechoslovakia denied the presence of religious persecution because he saw no cases of physical brutality even though his church, under a religiously oppressive government, was forced to worship in secret. Keywords: christians; church; experience; persecution; reflection; theological
• Lausanne IV: One More Epilogue by Jennings, J. Nelson (2025) - Pre-Congress material, including videos, is still available on the Lausanne website (Lausanne Movement 2025a). I have known personally for many years several in Lausanne leadership and others who have been involved in Lausanne circles. Keywords: church; global; lausanne; movement
• gme-2959 by None (None) - You can also find an abundance of material through such online searches as “Lausanne Congress” or “Lausanne Congress reflections.” I was grateful to attend L4 physically—my first Lausanne Congress, actually. Keywords: april; character; christ; christian; church; fourth; fourth lausanne; global; god; gospel; impact; issn; korean; lausanne; lausanne congress; lausanne movement; leadership; missiology; mission; missionaries; people; theological; vol; workplace; workplace mission; world
• The Trinity and Contextualization by Smith, Ralph Allan (2010) - The result of the great controversy of the fourth century was to reject this doctrine as heretical.32 To place this in the language of contextualization, we may say that the Apologists of the second century were in fact guilty of a degree of syncretistic contextualization. This may be described as “linguistic contextualization.” Keywords: christian; church; contextualization; doctrine; god; greek; ibid; trinity
• The Chinese Bible: How We Got It and How We Need It by Ramstad, Mans (2010) - Although this translation became the foundation of Chinese Bible translation, it was “wooden and unclear” (Pfister, 1 He is the only Bible translator of that era known for literary work outside Bible translation. Keywords: bible; china; chinese; christian; church; god; people; society; translation; version; women; word
• COMIBAM at the IV Lausanne Congress: A Reflection on Missionary Collaboration by Fonseca, E. J. (2025) - IV Lausanne Congress, Incheon, South Korea. IV Lausanne Congress, Incheon, South Korea. Keywords: christ; church; congress; day; global; lausanne; mission; movement
• PDF icon opens file, then see top right for download. by GME (2025) - Conversely, effective movement catalysts apparently experience a lack of openness to the gospel as less of a problem than non-catalysts, even if they minister in similarly challenging contexts. Conducting and taking surveys about movement catalysts humbly intends to serve the cause of God’s kingdom, not to seek popularity as a masterful numbers-cruncher or expert analyst. Keywords: book; catalysts; catalyzing; christ; church; congress; contributing; factors; global; god; gospel; issn; items; jesus; july; lack; lausanne; leaders; matthew; ministry; missiology; mission; movement; non; people; sheep; shepherd; spirit; vol
• The Cross-cultural Experience of Ghanaian Pastors Ministering to Second-Generation Ghanaian-Americans in the US by Obeng, Ebenezer A.; Kim, Hansung (2025) - One factor that has contributed this challenge is the inability of second generations to assimilate in African immigrant churches. Living at the crossroads of cultural worlds: The experience of normative conflicts by second generation immigrant youth. Keywords: americans; church; cop; culture; generation; immigrant; pastor
• Multilingual Ministry: Identifying Languages and Finding Bible and Other Resources by Brassington, Peter (2025) - Although the detailed reports in past US censuses uncovered over 1,300 different named languages and dialects, smaller communities do not appear in public statistics, relegated to various categories of “other language.” In countries where monolingualism is considered the norm (at least by the dominant majority), the use of other languages is not significantly on the agenda of most churches—even in major cities. Keywords: bible; church; god; languages; people; scripture; sil; translation
• Between Two Worlds: Identity-Theological Reflections of Second-Generation Chinese Christians in Germany—A Case Study by Ma, Tianji (2025) - Key Words: second-generation Chinese Christians, bicultural identity, Chinese churches in Germany, intergenerational tensions, cultural hybridity, identity-theological reflection, Duplex church model, Diaspora Theology Introduction The Chinese Christian church in Germany (Ma, 2025; Ma & Chen, 2025a, 2025b)[endnoteRef:1] is a diasporic phenomenon that has grown since the late twentieth century, giving rise to congregations of first-generation Chinese immigrants and now their German-raised children. By examining identity and theology (and setting aside for now practical missionary strategies), this article aims to shed light on how being Chinese shapes the faith of the second generation, how young Chinese Christians perceive their cultural-religious identity in diaspora, how they negotiate that identity in the German context, and what these processes could mean for the future of Chinese churches in Germany. Keywords: bicultural; chinese; christians; church; churches; faith; generation; german; identity; model; youth
• Missiological Response to the Vulnerability of Hausa-Speaking Migrant Christians in Nigeria by Akano, Benjamin Isola (2025) - Also, while the Hausa language is mostly spoken by people groups in northern Nigeria in public places, each group still retains its distinct language and rich cultural heritage. Such conditions obviously constitute the situation in northern Nigeria, and residents are thus more vulnerable physiologically, socially, and psychologically. Keywords: christians; church; hausa; hsm; insecurity; migration; missions; nigeria; northern; people
• gme-3021 by None (None) - This congregation, like many diaspora churches, lives at the intersection of two worlds—bearing the theological heritage of their sending cultures while immersed in the pluralistic, secularizing, and religiously fragmented landscape of their host society. For example, relations between diaspora churches and local indigenous churches and communities is a topic ripe for further research. Keywords: african; americans; anglican; bible; chinese; christian; christianity; church; churches; communities; community; context; cop; culture; diaspora; diaspora churches; digital; ecclesial; faith; generation; german; ghanaian; global; god; identities; identity; immigrant; issn; korea; language; living; migrants; migration; ministry; missiology; missiology issn; mission; new; nigeria; north; october; pastors; people; race; research; south; studies; study; theology; tiktok; ugandan; vol; world
• DIASPORA MISSIOLOGY by Wan, Enoch (2010) - Joy B. Tira Published in Global Missiology, Featured Article, October 2004, www.globalmissiology.net 8 missiology is different in focus, conceptualization, perspective, orientation, paradigm, ministry styles and ministry pattern as illustrated in Figure 5 and Figure 6. 5.1 Differences In Focus, Conceptualization, Perspective Orientation and Paradigm Figure 5 “Traditional Missiology” Vis-A-Vis “Diaspora Missiology” – 4 Elements # ASPECTS TRADITIONAL MISSIOLOGY �� DISPORA MISSIOLOGY 1 F O C U S Polarized/dychotomized - “great commission” ��“great commandment” - saving soul �� social Gospel - church planting �� Christian charity - paternalism �� indigenization - Holistic Christianity with strong integration of evangelism with Christian charity - contextualization 2 C O N C E P - T U A L IZ A - T IO N - territorial: here �� there - “local” �� “global” - lineal: “sending” �� “receiving” - “assimilation” �� “amalgamation” - “specialization” - “deterritorialization” 10 - “global” 11 - “mutualuality” and “reciprocity” - “hybridity” - “inter- disciplinary” 3 P E R S P E C - T IV E - geographically divided: foreign mission ��local, urban��rural - geo- political boundary: state/nation�� state/nation - disciplinary compartmentalization: e.g. theology of missions / strategy of missions - non- spatial, - “borderless,” no boundary to worry, transnational and global - new approach: integrated and Interdisciplinary 4 P A R A D IG M - OT: missions = gentile- proselyte - - - coming - NT: missions = the Great Commission - - - going - Modern missions: E- 1, E- 2, E- 3 or M- 1, M- 2. Thus various types M-1, M-2, etc. - “people group” identity - evangelistic scale: reached��unreached - “competitive spirit” “self sufficient” - no barrier to worry about - mobile and fluid, - hyphenated identity and ethnicity - no unreached people - “partnership,” 15 “networking” and synergy 12 David Lundy, Borderless Church 13 Peter Ward, Liquid Church. Keywords: church; diaspora; figure; ministry; missiology; missions; new; people; study
• KANGAROO CHURCH BIRTHING AND REPRODUCTION MODEL AMONG IMMIGRANTS: FIRST FILIPINO ALLIANCE CHURCH AS A CASE STUDY IN CANADIAN CONTEXT by Tira, Sadiri Joy (2010) - Joy and the church, he said, provided inspirational leadership and were the driving force behind Filipino Alliance churches, ministries, mission efforts and outreach over the last 15 years. This Kangaroo Church Birthing and Reproduction model is a natural and healthy way of discipling and church birthing among Diaspora people. Keywords: alliance; birthing; canada; church; churches; congregation; daughter; edmonton; ffac; filipino; group; joey; kangaroo; mother; people; pouch
• THE SELF-GIVING TRIUNE GOD, THE IMAGO DEI AND THE NATURE OF THE LOCAL CHURCH: AN ONTOLOGY OF MISSION by Horrell, J. Scott (2010) - (2) The plural terms for God Elohim and Adonai—two of the three main terms for God in the Hebrew Scriptures—are topics of considerable scholarship and debate, not to mention numerous other plural titles of God with their singular modifiers. As in any faith, one’s understanding of God should significantly define his worldview. Keywords: christian; church; father; giving; god; holy; human; life; love; nature; self; son; spirit; trinitarian; trinity
• gme-317 by None (None) - They are mystically united with and incorporated into him…” 25 The Orthodox Church thus accepts that the elements of bread and wine are changed into Christ’s very body and blood. Although only a small fraction of Russians are active in Orthodox churches, the identity and tenets of Orthodoxy have had at least some influence on almost all Russians. Keywords: church; evangelicals; ibid; orthodox; russia
• APOSTOLIC FUNCTION AND MISSION by Johnson, Alan R. (2010) - There is no longer clarity as to what we mean by missions and the 2 practice of cross-cultural missions. This perspective affects how missions is perceived when Western missionaries mobilize non- western church movements to do cross-cultural missions. Keywords: apostolic; assemblies; christ; church; churches; cross; evangelism; function; god; gospel; missionaries; missionary; missions; movement; people; sense; work; world
• THE MINISTRY DRIVEN CHURCH: THE BIBLICAL BASIS FOR MINISTRY IN BOTH THE SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL SPHERES, AND ITS IMPACT ON THE RAPID MULTIPLICATION OF CHURCHES by Description, Product (2010) - Microsoft Word - Ministry-Driven-Church.doc THE MINISTRY DRIVEN CHURCH: THE BIBLICAL BASIS FOR MINISTRY IN BOTH THE SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL SPHERES, AND ITS IMPACT ON THE RAPID MULTIPLICATION OF CHURCHES - A Biblical Theology of Social Ministry Dr. Robert D. Hosken The Ministry Driven Church replicates the work of Jesus Christ, the Apostles and the Early Church, explaining the rapid growth of the Church in the first few centuries. (For the full text, go to www.agape-biblia.org/rehab/.) Keywords: church
• Sample Books Helpful for Church Planting by Wan, Enoch (2010) - comments Cell church planter's Guide Cell Church Planter's Guide Author: Robert E. Logan and Jeannette Buller ASIN: 0801026482 Binding: Hardback List Price: $95.00 USD Book Reviews – Cell Church – Church Planting read more – login or register to post comments Church Planting Movements: How God is Redeeming a Lost World Church Planting Movements: How God is Redeeming a Lost World Author: David Garrison Binding: Paperback List Price: $29.95 USD Book Reviews – Church Planting – David Garrison – Missions read more – login or register to post comments House Church and Mission: The Importance of Household Structures in Early Christianity House Church and Mission: The Importance of Household Structures in Early Christianity Author: Robert E. Logan Binding: Paperback List Price: $12.00 USD Bob Logan – Book Reviews – Church Planting read more – login or register to post comments Indigenous Church Planting, a Practical Journey Indigenous Church Planting, a Practical Journey Author: Charles Brock ASIN: Keywords: church; price
• gme-357 by None (None) - In affirming the absolute freedom of God Barth asserts that the Word of God cannot be limited in the revealed words of the Bible, he then proceeds to affirms that the absolute grace of God is the based of God’s operation. As children of God we are renewed in being the image bearers of God, we are empowered to participate in God creation through the knowledge of God’s word and revelation. Keywords: christ; church; faith; god; gospel; man; spirit; thought; world
• HOW TO PREVENT CHURCH SPLITS by Galacio, Gerry T. (2010) - (Note: Jump to “Biblical, relational and practical ways to prevent church splits”) Church splits are “intra-corporate disputes” under the jurisdiction of the Regional Trial Court; exceptions Please take note that with Baptist churches in the Philippines registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), church splits are considered as “intra- corporate disputes” under the Securities Regulation Code. Keywords: church; court; disputes; split
• Review of "The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died" by Kreitzer, Mark R. (2010) - I heartily recommend it and plan to keep using it in my History of the Expansion of Christianity classes. Last, Jenkins correctly points out that the Church of North Africa, like Medieval Europe, had a very visible presence in church buildings, other ecclesial real estate, and monasteries. Keywords: christianity; church; east
• MENTORING FOR LIFE IN ABUNDANCE: LEARNING FROM PAUL’S EXAMPLE by Stutzman, Linford (2010) - We need to create a culture of mentoring in mission that involves congregation, mission programs, and education. While there was wide-spread affirmation of these inter-denominational missions programs, Mennonite mission leaders were also concerned that this phenomenon would not necessarily contribute to the life and mission of the congregations, or loyalty and commitment among the young participants to serve with the Mennonite church in mission and leadership in the future. Keywords: church; life; mennonite; mission; october; paul; people; risk; term
• Christopaganism or Indigenous Christianity by YAMAMORI, editor, TETSUNAO (2010) - As men placed their faith on Jesus, were baptized and formed into Christian churches, they were known as “followers of the Way” and became different from other men. Culture churches on occasion repeat the words of the Bible like “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation” (II Corinthians 5:17 RSV), but the reality of being a new creation is unknown to them. Keywords: adaptation; adjustments; african; beyerhaus; bible; biblical; case; century; change; chapter; christian; christian church; christianity; christopaganism; church; church history; churches; communication; cross; culture; day; example; fact; faith; form; god; gospel; history; hoekendijk; holy; human; indonesia; issue; jesus; language; life; lord; man; mcgavran; meaning; men; message; missiology; missiology july; missionaries; missionary; missions; movements; new; non; people; permission; place; point; possessio; present; problem; process; question; religion; reprinted; revelation; second; situation; society; spirit; symposium; syncretism; terms; testament; theological; theology; time; tippett; truth; use; way; words; work; world; worship; years
• Worldview, Challenge of Contextualization and Church Planting in West Africa — Part 2: Worldview, Culture and Multi-disciplinary Study by Tuche, D. (2010) - That is, the members of different cultures arrive at different conclusions concerning reality because they have started from different assumptions. Published under “Contextualization” at GlobalMissiology.org, October 2008 4 “CULTURE” AND “WORLDVIEW” James L. Peacock observes that anthropologists “have promiscuously showered affection on the notion of culture, a notion so obvious in their experience and so central to their discipline. Keywords: african; baker; christian; christianity; church; contextualization; culture; gospel; grand; hiebert; history; ibid; kraft; london; mission; new; october; people; press; rapids; university; west; william; worldview; york
• Formal Transformation and Faith Distortion by Tippet, Alan R. (2010) - So the faith-formulation grows or is reformulated, passing from Semite, to Hebrew, to Christian faith, and the form of the salvation motif is transformed by a new faith content. Every Christian community with a sense of mission must inevitably come into encounter with non-Christian faiths. Keywords: christian; christianity; church; distortion; faith; form; history; man; missionary; people; religion; syncretism; transformation; world
• Christopaganism or Indigenous Christianity by Tippet, Alan R. (2010) - Either he will innovate with new (foreign) religious forms while retaining the old conceptual framework, or with the Christian gospel using meaningful cultural forms for expressing it. The fear of cannibalistic demons, equated with the role of the Jews as the enemies of our Lord in his last days on earth, is obviously an example of the problem of meaning in cross-cultural gospel communication. Keywords: christian; christianity; christopaganism; church; culture; dead; form; god; gospel; juan; missionary; people; point; sun; syncretism
• The Adaptation -Syncretism Axis by McGavran, Donald A. (2010) - 4 Missiologists who have served in congregations which have arisen as converts one by one across several decades came to Christian faith, have much to say about the need for more indigenization, adaptation and cordial welcome to other cultures. Missiologists should beware of idealizing all responses of Christians in other cultures than their own. Keywords: adaptation; adjustment; christian; church; culture; dimension; god; men; stage
• A Perspective on Indonesia by Hoekendijk, J.C. (2010) - This whole discussion on the right theme of church history seems to be ignored in the very best treatise on Indonesia. “Statistical analysis of church life and growth in Indonesia is difficult and risky because of the paucity of data” (Cooley 1973:86). Keywords: century; christian; church; faith; history; indonesia; life; missionaries; missionary; muslim; new; people; portuguese; voc; world
• gme-396 by None (None) - Dave and the COMIMEX people are writing people profiles, in Spanish, for the Latin American missions movement. In America, in our indigenous churches, we sing worship songs written in New Zealand, as do indigenous churches in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Keywords: church; group; people
• ETHNIC SOLIDARITY, BABEL-PENTECOST RELATIONSHIP, AND THE NEW COVENANT by Kreitzer, Mark R. (2010) - (Anderson 1977, 63-64, see Brueggemann 1982, 101) Edward Dayton and David Fraser agree: “A number of verses in Revelation (5:9, 7:9, 10:11, 11:9, 13:7, 14:6, 17:15) envision the end of time as encompassing rather than erasing the differences that characterize people groups” (Dayton and Fraser 1980, 117). The new community of the Spirit was to include both Jews and peoples from the idolatrous ethnies. Keywords: abraham; acts; babel; christ; church; covenant; earth; ethnies; god; gospel; grand; israel; jerusalem; language; matthew; mission; nations; new; pentecost; peoples; rapids; rom; scott; spirit; unity; yahweh
• THE ETHICS OF PLANTING CHURCHES IN MUSLIM LANDS by Robinson, IV, George G. (2010) - When involved in God’s mandate called the Great Commission, church planters in Muslim countries will encounter situations where they must, like Peter and the other apostles, choose to obey God rather than man. 9 Samuel Rutherford, Lex Rex: or the Law and the Prince. (1644). 8 why all untruth and falsehood is wrong; it is a contradiction of that which God is.” 10 The bi-vocational nature of church planting in Islamic countries will almost certainly stir up the curiosity of the locals and often that curiosity manifests itself in the form of an interrogation. Keywords: christian; church; countries; disobedience; god; gospel; planting; truth
• A Missiologist’s Contemplation on the Social Organization of the Trinity: The Trinity as a Model for Life Together by Koeshall, Anita (2010) - � This discussion itself is “proof” of these fallen tendencies that make human social organization necessary. On what basis do we form our visions of church relationships? Keywords: christ; church; father; god; hierarchy; organization; power; relationship; self; son; trinity
• REDIRECTING MEMBERS OF SHORT-TERM MISSION TO UNREACHED PEOPLE GROUPS by Williams, Dave (2010) - The result is that many new missionaries will accept such offers and thus, continue to go where churches are already established rather than to Unreached People Groups. The real root problem, however, is that many new missionaries actually prefer having a live person around all the time who can help them at a moment’s notice. Keywords: agencies; calling; church; country; god; groups; long; missionaries; missionary; missions; people; people groups; term; world
• Use of Technology By Mission Workers by Wan, Enoch (2010) - Writing press releases How to get news about your church into local newspapers and radio o • Outreach sites The potential for websites to reach non-Christians o Posting articles • Website housekeeping (using website and reporting broken links, etc.) Keywords: christians; church; day; evangelism; non; online; outreach; portable; site; use; web; website
• gme-42 by None (None) - The manner of Je- sus’ speech indicates his conviction that the persons of the divine Community inwardly enjoy one another’s love, hospitality, generosity, and interpersonal communion, so much so that they are one God, and being one God, express such love to one another.7 In God’s own revelation, we encounter a Father, Son and Holy Spirit each lov- ing the other, giving to the other, honoring the other, glorifying the other — this without confusing the high order of the Godhead, the roles that each di- vine person has fulfilled from eternity past.8 5 See Aubrey R. Johnson, The One and the Many in the Israelite Conception of God (2d ed., Cardiff: Univ. of Wales, 1961) 1-37; Larry Hurtado, One God One Lord: Early Chris- tian Devotion and Ancient Jewish Monotheism (London: SCM Press, 1988); Margaret Barker, The Great Angel: A Study of Israel’s Second God (London: SPCK, 1992); Felix Christ, Jesus Sophia. E. J. Fortman (Fr. ed. 1975; Still River MA: St. Bede’s, 1982); Jürgen Moltmann, The Trinity and the Kingdom of God, trans. Keywords: christian; church; father; giving; god; holy; human; life; love; nature; self; son; spirit; trinitarian; trinity
• EXPLORING NEW PARADIGMS FOR A NEW INDIA by Caven, Jay (2010) - THE CHALLENGE OF CAPACITY BUILDING The second new paradigm is that a whole generation of new ministries is changing the face of India missions. The first new paradigm for the future of India missions involves a shift from Western to Indian resources to pay for ministry support. Keywords: church; india; ministry; new; self; years
• SEANET and RESOURCES for the BUDDHIST WORLD by Smith, Alex G. (2010) - In 2001, SEANET’s initial 15 day Buddhist Prayer Guide by countries, titled A Billion Wait, was available “on line”, and a revised 36-page booklet was published in early 2002. Microsoft Word - SEANET and RESOURCES for the BUDDHIST WORLD by smith 7.05 SEANET and RESOURCES for the BUDDHIST WORLD Alex G. Smith, D. Miss. Keywords: buddhism; church; david; omf; prayer; seanet; smith; world
• gme-433 by None (None) - Values Impact of Globalization on the Church Why are western churches experiencing declining levels of attendance, involvement, volunteering and giving? The Incredible Shrinking American Purse The amount of money given to many churches in the U.S. was up during the last years of the boom economy. Keywords: american; christian; church; economy; future; god; life; lives; mission; new; people; values; world; young
• gme-434 by None (None) - This new form of HQ religion, when less than one hundred years old, was encountered by the Spaniards and their RCC missionaries. The EP movement allows the HQ to take control of his life and join other HQ in a people movement to EP. Keywords: america; andean; animism; catholic; christ; church; culture; ecuador; form; god; inca; latin; missionaries; movement; new; people; rcc; religion; syncretism; world
• gme-435 by None (None) - In order to explain why the Native American is a giant, I will argue that pre-modern channels such as those found among the indigenous people of North America, when redeemed by Christ, provide strategic inroads for the Good News to penetrate the hearts and imaginations of post-modern culture. A characteristic trait of post-modern culture is suspicion of the established Church—Christendom. Keywords: christ; christian; church; culture; good; people; post; spirit
• The Impact of Modernity on Spirituality by Wong, Chan Kok (2010) - 4.1 I appreciate such efforts in marking out the contributions of different spiritual traditions. The difficulty is further compounded by the lack of a model of evangelical spirituality. Keywords: bible; change; christian; christianity; church; effect; god; group; hunter; life; mcgrath; modernity; new; people; religion; self; singapore; society; spirituality; time; tradition; understanding; way; world
• MINISTERING IN TURKISH CONTEXT:PROPOSING A FIVE-STAGE MODEL FOR CHURCH PLANTING by Wan, Enoch; Mark, John (2010) - Church planting evangelism comes in two general categories; friendship and cp-mass evangelism. Our understanding and passion for evangelism, discipleship, leadership development, and church planting greatly impact the church planting task and yet there are a variety of ways that these concepts are understood. Keywords: believers; christ; christian; church; church planting; churches; evangelism; god; gospel; group; home; house; leadership; new; people; planting; turkey
• CONTEXTUALIZING CHURCH-STATE RELATIONS IN MUSLIM CONTEXTS by DANIELS, GENE (2010) - Therefore, its significant reaches far beyond the borders of Central Asia and carries implications for missionaries and church leaders in other areas of the Islamic world, wherever young churches are emerging under quasi-secular, Muslim-majority governments. When church leaders press a Muslim government to conform to these Western (i.e. foreign) concepts, it is broadcasting a clear message―that the Protestant church is for all purposes a Western concern, protected by powerful foreign patrons. Keywords: asia; central; christian; church; muslim; protestant; rights; state; timothy
• THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE PSALMS TO A POSTMODERN MISSIONS PARADIGM by Landon, Michael (2010) - What do the Psalms teach about pluralism? b. Pluralism as Context of Psalms So, how can the Psalms fit with pluralism? Keywords: church; god; gospel; hiebert; life; missions; new; people; psalms; world; worship
• The Challenge of Discipling Muslim Background Believers by Emetuche, Damian (2010) - Finally, I hope to suggest some practical ways of discipling new Muslim converts for maximum benefits in the gospel outreach to the Islamic world. In response to this challenge, I will first underscore the colossal nature of the challenge of discipling Muslim converts to Christianity by highlighting some of the theological and cultural baggage that former Muslims bring into their new faith in Christ Jesus. Keywords: christian; church; converts; culture; faith; islam; islamic; mission; muslim; new
• “Mission” and Missio Dei: Response to Charles Van Engen’s “‘Mission’ Defined and Described” by Wan, Enoch (2011) - An evaluation is provided in light of the author’s awareness of two dimensions of Christian mission, that is, “individual” and “institutional.” Christian mission” (p. 7). Keywords: christian; church; engen; global; god; mission; missional; theology; van
• gme-581 by None (None) - Position 2 � WORLD GOD Missional Church Advance of God’s kingdom Position 3 Missions “Ministries”� in the world WORLD WORLD GOD Missionary teams (obeying Great Commission) new churches Local Churches Position 4 � Arther Glasser and Donald McGavran survey the debate in Contemporary Theologies of Mission (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1983). Rufus Anderson, writing 170 years ago, articulated this Position 1 like this: A missionary is one called by God and sent by the church to do “missionary work,” i.e.: · the converting of lost men, · organising them into churches, · giving these churches a competent native ministry, · all for the purpose of spreading of a scriptural self-propagating Christianity In this approach, every believer is called to be involved in world missions, whether by “going, giving or praying”. Keywords: christ; church; churches; god; mission; new; position; term; work; world
• Cross-Cultural Humor by Wan, Enoch (2011) - The following items actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services: -------------------------- Don't let worry kill you off – let the church help. Thank God for church ladies with typewriters. Keywords: church
• gme-589 by None (None) - On the other hand, Glasser argues, the two structures that Winter identifies, do appear in the record of Acts, In Acts 2-12, the story of the expansion of the Christian movement is largely a record of spontaneous growth brought about by the witness of individual Christians… In Acts 13-28 the expansion of the Christian movement was achieved through a strikingly different structure -- the apostolic team or mission structure. Mission structures seldom, if ever, originate at the ecclesiastical center. Keywords: apostolic; church; commission; god; jesus; local; mission; missionary; paul; structures; world
• Christian Missions to Diaspora Groups: A Diachronic General Overview and Synchronic Study of Contemporary USA by Wan, Enoch; Gross, Linda (2010) - “Diaspora Missiology” is a relatively new term for formal study on missions among diaspora peoples, or the academic discipline of the church’s mission in spreading the Christian faith among non-Christian diaspora peoples wherever they are located.5 “Evangelism” is rooted in the Greek word euangelizo meaning “… to spread the Good News of the Gospel with signs following, in both supernatural power and compassionate deeds, to preach, to persuade, to call to faith in Christ.”6 They were diaspora people serving the Lord as He guided their journeys from place to place. Keywords: christian; church; diaspora; ibid; immigration; missions; new; people; usa; world
• THE “WHY,” “HOW” AND “WHO” OF PARTNERSHIP IN CHRISTIAN MISSIONS by Wan, Enoch; Penman, Kevin P. (2010) - Hopefully, such understand will lead to partnership to fulfill God’s Great Commission by sharing resources and collaborative efforts. The purpose of this brief study is to examine the “why,” “how” and “who” of partnership for Christian missions. Keywords: church; god; mission; partnership; research; study; world
• Who Did They Say that He Is? Four Hopeful and Suffering Generations of Japanese-Reformed Christologies by Jennings, J. Nelson (2022) - While Paul does not directly call Jesus Christ God, undoubtedly that is his faith…. But it is unanimously agreed that the name Lord Jesus Christ is used by Paul’s hand in his letters 73 times. Keywords: christian; christianity; christology; church; faith; god; history; human; japanese; jesus christ; kumano; logos; lord; nature; okada; person; point; problem; reformed; takakura; theologians; theological; theology; thought; uemura
• RETHINKING “CONTEXTUALIZATION” by Franklin, Stephen T. (2011) - In this essay I want to ask if this demand to re-theologize the faith emanates from the “new” Christian communities themselves, or whether it is rooted in the developments in Western culture and theology over the last five hundred years? To restate the hypothesis: the primary impetus for contextualization can be found in local developments in Western culture. Keywords: catholic; christian; church; contextualization; culture; doctrine; god; japanese; theology; world
• gme-62 by None (None) - These elements of Williams’ partnership team concept are most helpful for a local church or entity that is in the process of fleshing out a theology of missions partnership. DOCTRINE – THE PARAMETERS OF PARTNERSHIP Unity is a biblical and noble foundation for missions partnerships. Keywords: believers; bible; body; christian; church; god; mission; partnership; paul; people; unity
• Interdependent Church Planting Among the Urban Poor: A Case Study with Living Bread Ministries in Southern Brazil by Hubbard II, G. Patrick (2011) - In addition, I will discuss how these partnerships have not only led to planting churches, but to the establishment of a Brazilian led church planting ministry that shares the same vision and focus as LBM. With the gifts and talents given to us we set out to legally establish Living Bread Ministries in order that we might fulfill the mission God had given: to plant churches among the poor and needy. Keywords: brazil; christ; church; churches; god; lbm; mission; mpv; pastor; vision; work
• Ecclesiology and Mission: Who’s in the Driver’s Seat by Robinson, George (2011) - With this in mind, it is right that our modern understanding of missions is so tied to the activity of church planting. If disciples were to be made beginning in Jerusalem, and from there spreading out into all of the world, how else could it be done apart from establishing churches in various locales where these new generations of disciples resided? Keywords: church
• Island Ecclesiology: An Investigation into the Influence of Southern Baptist Missionaries upon the Formation of Cuban Baptist Ecclesiology by Morris, John Calvin (2011) - �� ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM {citationID:16bib3sjdp,citationItems:[{uri:[http://zotero.org/users/625959/items/4PTFIKI7]}]} �Kurt Urbanek compiled the statistics from both Cuban Baptist Conventions and demonstrated that between 1997 and 2008 of the over 300,000 professions of faith less than 14% were baptized. � � ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM {citationID:o4qqjlbvq,citationItems:[{uri:[http://zotero.org/users/625959/items/4PTFIKI7]}]} �Urbanek, “CPM Cuba,”� 168. Keywords: addin zotero_item; baptist; church; churches; convention; cpm; cuba; ecclesiology; gonzalez; house; leaders; mission; new; pastors; users/625959; work; years; � addin; � ibid; � �
• THE ECCLESIOLOGY OF WATCHMAN NEE by Rogers, David (2011) - � Watchman Nee, The Church and the Work, Vol I: Assembly Life (New York: Christian Fellowship Publishers, 1982), 50. � Nee, Assembly Life, 1–7. � Nee, Rethinking the Work, 144. � Ibid., 5–9. Keywords: china; christian; church; churches; ground; group; lee; local; ministry; movement; nee; watchman; work; � �
• Delivering Theological Education for Church Planters in Canada by Booth, Susan (2011) - One such area where change is already upon us is the relatively new field of preparing church planters. There is considerable debate over whether theological schools can actually provide appropriate training for church planters. Keywords: biblical; canada; canadian; character; church; church planting; churches; education; god; leaders; ministry; mission; need; new; planters; planting; seminary; theological; urban
• Authority in a Collectivist Church: Identifying Crucial Concerns for a Chinese Ecclesiology by Wu, Jackson (2011) - Second, missionaries can assess their strategies and better serve Chinese churches. First, Chinese church leaders can become more conscious of their decisions in light of western influences and their own cultural assumptions. Keywords: authority; china; chinese; christian; church; culture; david; ecclesiology; face; family; god; group; honor; john; journal; leadership; life; new; paul; people; shame; society; theology
• Trinitarian Ecclesiology: a Model for Mission by White, Justin (2011) - By the end this work will demonstrate that sending missionary teams, or strategic kingdom communities (SKC’s), from local churches is the most faithful strategy to the Trinitarian nature of God. One way churches and mission boards can partner together to ensure that local churches play a more direct role in international missions is to send out SKC’s instead of individuals and non-strategic teams. Keywords: church; churches; community; father; god; love; mission; spirit; trinity
• gme-681 by None (None) - Then in the late 1990’s missiologist Dr. David Garrison released a pamphlet documenting a phenomenon known as church planting movements (CPM), from which he derived certain “universal elements” that are present in places where there is a rapid multiplication of churches planting churches. (150) When it comes to the “church” in church planting movement, it is not entirely clear from the first two-thirds of the book how the authors define the term. Keywords: authors; book; church; churches; cpm
• gme-682 by None (None) - This is not an appeal to lower the standards for Biblical church; it is simply to say that we should allow new churches to grow into Biblical maturity. Older models of established, institutional mission work gave way to new methods that pursued “Church-Planting Movements” (CPMs)—rapid, reproducing waves of indigenous churches planting churches. Keywords: church; churches; cpm; sills; training
• MISSIONAL LEADERSHIP FOR THE AFRICAN CHURCH by Ibengi, Roger D.; Starcher, Richard L. (2011) - African Church leaders must also be people of character. Many African Church leaders fall into this category. Keywords: church; god; leaders; mission
• GENERATIONAL SOCIO-CULTURAL SHIFTS IN THE POST-MODERN AGE: FROM BOOMERS TO GEN X AND BEYOND by Blomberg, Fran; Hart, Geoff; Kim, Tae Kyoon; Robinson IV, George G. (2010) - The older generation views their identity through their profession in comparison with personhood marking the identity of new generation. The older generation of Thais is conservative; new generation is innovative and assertive. Keywords: boomers; characteristics; church; community; cultural; gen xers; generation; god; http://www.globalmissiology.org/english/archive/blomberg_generational; leadership; life; millennials; ministry; missiology; new; parents; river; sur; time; world; xers
• St. Paul’s Church Planting Strategies as Revealed in Selected Passages in the Book of Acts by Author, Anonymous (2012) - Paul understood that the making of disciples is the heartbeat of the Lord Jesus Christ and also central to the Great Commission. With this understanding, Paul devoted his life to the planting and establishing of viable local churches in the then Roman world. Keywords: acts; church; churches; evangelism; gospel; missionary; paul; people; place; planting
• Brian D. Mclaren’s Contextualization of the Gospel by Hesselgrave, David J. (2012) - Brian McLaren on Scripture Concerning the authority of the Bible, McLaren says that some people look at the Bible in much the same way as medieval Catholics looked at the church and the pope—infallible, inerrant and absolutely authoritative. After all, contra McLaren, authentic and relevant contextualization must begin with sound theology. Keywords: christian; church; god; gospel; ifma; mclaren; mission; ways
• Church Planting: Biblical, Theological, and Missiological Considerations by Emetuche, Damian (2012) - The primary concern of this position is church planting and it is through planting new churches that disciples are made and nurtured. In the book which he coauthored with Arthur F. Glasser, Contemporary Theologies of Mission, McGavran defines “mission” as carrying the gospel across cultural boundaries to those who owe no allegiance to Jesus Christ, encouraging them to accept Him as Lord and Savior and to become responsible members of His Church, working, as the Holy Spirit leads, at both evangelism and justice, at making God’s will done on earth as it is done in heaven. Keywords: christ; church; disciples; father; god; jesus; planting
• gme-720 by None (None) - For many Iranian Christians, Islam is almost a form of cultural imperialism. [6: The fullest treatment of the topic of the growth of Iranian Christianity and its relation to economic and political shifts in Iran can be found in Bradley 2008. Keywords: christianity; christians; church; iranians; islam; muslims; new; unity
• gme-721 by None (None) - In addition, I will discuss how these partnerships have not only led to planting churches, but to the establishment of a Brazilian led church planting ministry that shares the same vision and focus as LBM. With the gifts and talents given to us we set out to legally establish Living Bread Ministries in order that we might fulfill the mission God had given: to plant churches among the poor and needy. Keywords: brazil; christ; church; churches; god; lbm; mission; mpv; pastor; vision; work
• Possessio and Syncretism in Biblical Perspective by Beyerhaus, Peter (2010) - A very peculiar feature in the image of God, therefore, is what G. von Rad (1963:216-225) calls the “holy jealousy” of God Yahweh. The central concept of Old Testament religion, therefore, is the covenant between Yahweh and his elected people. Keywords: christ; christian; church; faith; god; history; israel; people; possessio; religion; syncretism; testament; world; yahweh
• The Christian Encounter with Afro-Messianic Movements: The Possessio-Syncretism Axis illustrated from South Africa by BEYERHAUS, PETER (2010) - It is interesting to note that several founders of messianic movements acted in their earlier life as diviners or mediums, or came from families of witch doctors. Therefore, enforcing “cultural identity” on African churches is as detrimental as keeping them captive in imported western forms. Keywords: african; afro; christian; church; churches; god; life; members; missiology; movements; religion; south
• The Foundation of Kinship: Theology of holism by Greenway, Roger S. (2010) - We are kingdom people who know the Lord and show it in ways that the Bible clearly lays out. 25 Are we willing to pay the price of relating personally to poor people? Keywords: christ; christian; church; development; god; gospel; israel; jesus; kingdom; lord; love; ministry; mission; need; new; people; prince; world
• MISSIONAL THEOLOGY by Tiénou, Tite; Hiebert, Paul G. (2010) - Biblical theology is essential to our understanding of Scripture, but like systematic theology, God’s mission in the world, particularly as that relates to us today, is not a central theme in its analysis. The Lambath Conference decreed: After we evaluate the case in the light of the findings of systematic theology, biblical theology and church history, and of the ways other mission agencies have handled such cases in that and other parts of the world, we need to formulate principles that inform the case, make a decision, and provide ways in which to carry out the judgment and deal with its consequences. Keywords: case; church; god; history; law; mission; questions; scripture; theology; truth; � �
• CHURCH PLANTING AND CURRENT DEMOGRAPHIC REALITIES IN NORTH AMERICA! by Emetuche, Damian (2012) - In a course that I teach, “Immigration and Church Planting,” an assignment I gave to students was to write a case study of a non-Christian immigrant to North America giving details of background, culture, religion, and the reasons for migrating to United States. Hinduism---1.5 million or more in North American, mostly immigrants from India; some converts through Transcendental Meditation (TM), ISKCON (“Hare Krishna”), etc. Buddhism---2.5 million in North America, mostly Asian. Keywords: america; church; culture; immigrants; immigration; new; north; percent; population; states; united
• ST. PAUL’S CHURCH PLANTING STRATEGIES AS REVEALED IN SELECTED PASSAGES IN THE BOOK OF ACTS by Ugo, Ikechukwu (2012) - Paul understood that the making of disciples is the heartbeat of the Lord Jesus Christ and also central to the Great Commission. With this understanding, Paul devoted his life to the planting and establishing of viable local churches in the then Roman world. Keywords: acts; church; churches; evangelism; gospel; missionary; paul; people; place; planting
• JEWISH RESISTANCE TO THE GOSPEL by Brickner, David (2012) - Ministers who separate themselves from Jewish Christians and who eschew opportunities to tell Jewish people about Jesus out of respect and friendship for rabbis must ask themselves, how good a friend they are to the cause of Christ. Celebrated Yiddish linguist Leo Rosten gives a definition for the Jewish people when he quotes the anonymous saying, Jewish people are just like everyone else . . . Keywords: christian; church; community; god; gospel; history; identity; jesus; jewish; jews; leaders; need; new; people; resistance
• The Secret World of God: Aesthetics, Relationships, and the Conversion of ‘Frances’ from Shi’a Islam to Christianity by Miller, Duane Alexander (2012) - � More details on the growth of the Iranian Anglican church can be found in Vander Werff 1977, which is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Iranian Christianity. I do not claim that this is a complete picture of her conversion, which as with many conversions out of Islam—whether to Christianity, atheism, or humanism—took place over many years and I try to give due weight to the various phases in this complex process. Keywords: anglican; christianity; church; conversion; frances; god; iranian; islam; world
• Crisis of Soteriology: Danger and Opportunity for Western Evangelical Evangelism in Eastern Orthodox Russia by Harris, Mark J. (2010) - The Orthodox Church believes that divine grace is not dispensed outside of the true church, and does not recognize as valid that which is performed outside of its own walls.14 6 Ibid, p. 110. Although only a small fraction of Russians are active in Orthodox churches, the identity and tenets of Orthodoxy have had at least some influence on almost all Russians. Keywords: church; evangelicals; ibid; orthodox; russia
• Review of CHURCH NEXT: What will the Church look like in the 21st Century by Rethinasamy, Elwin Johnson (2010) - Three parts in this book is unique in alerting the declination of American Christianity, advising alternative methodology in reaching out to America’s generations and the availability of resources with special reference to the cyber-space. Statistical findings of Barna Research Group, Gallup organization, American Religious Identification Survey, FACT survey are consulted in this chapter as an additional documentation of declination of American Christianity. Keywords: church; generations
• Biblical Ecclesiology by Dahms, John V. (2010) - Nothing less than endowment with the Spirit of God who is also the Spirit of Jesus Christ Himself is sufficient. It seems to be significant that Paul calls the Spirit of God the Spirit of Christ in the midst of a passage affirming that the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death, and exhorting His hearers, If by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live (Rom. 8:2, 13). Keywords: acts; apostles; christ; church; cor; elders; god; jesus; john; lord; paul; spirit; tim

• DIAGNOSING WORLDVIEWS OF URBAN POPULATIONS: CASE STUDY AND THEORY by Porter, Daniel V. (2012) - This paper briefly summarizes the author’s dissertation research on this question: essential definitions, methodology, biblical case studies and findings, contemporary case study with worldview questionnaire instrument and findings, and final theory and recommendations for further research. The research is constructed around certain essential definitions, methodology and research design, biblical case studies and derived theory, a contemporary case study with the Worldview Questionnaire, and final findings, theory and conclusions. Keywords: assumptions; case; covenant; god; life; new; people; reality; research; study; theory; words; worldview
• AN INDIGENOUS LITERATE LEADERSHIP FOR AN ORAL LEARNING COMMUNITY by Lillard, Tiffany (2012) - In 1999, Dinanath went to a seminar where he learned how to teach using oral methods instead of through lectures and books as he had been doing. He spoke to the people in their own heart language and used oral methods that related to this community’s culture to teach theology. Keywords: bible; jesus; journal; missions; oral; orality; people; scripture; storying; teaching
• A Theological Study of Point of Contact Theory by Sanders, Van E. (2010) - The heart (������) functions as the “source of the instinctive feelings from which those impulses go forth which govern the exercise of the understanding and will.”121 ”137 Paul uses � _ov, without the article, because only one true God exists.138 The true God did not equal the vain things or idols (������v) the Lycaonians customarily revered as gods. Keywords: acts; christian; christianity; contact; continuity; discontinuity; general; god; gospel; grand; jesus; john; knowledge; library; missions; nature; new; non; paul; people; points; position; press; rapids; religions; revelation; salvation; theology; william; world; � �
• gme-1093 by None (None) - A: LEARNING FROM PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT CULTURES A1 For such a Time As This: Journeying with Tribal Peoples – Georgia Grimes Shaw A2 Slices of Papua New Guinea Life – Aretta Loving A3 TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE WHY THIS “BOOK” IS ECO-FRIENDLY – Nancy Thomas INTRODUCTION: Relationship as Mission WINDOW Keywords: journey; people
• gme-1095 by None (None) - Top left to right: IMCO 1980, Rie Manabe-Kim and family 2012, Joy McCarthy translating; 2nd row: Aretta and Ed Loving, Rie Manabi-Kim, Jean and Chuck Van Engen at Machu Picchu in Peru, Georgia Shaw with Samo women in PNG 2011, bottom row: Cheryl Bear a Carrier First Nations believer, Joy McCarthy, working women in India taken by Betty Sue Brewster 2009, Cameroon women rejoicing over new Mofou-gudur translation in 2008. Aretta Loving and Joy McCarthy have both translated Scriptures in Papua New Guinea, Aretta and Ed with the Awa and Joy with the Kanite and Inoke. Keywords: people
• A1 For Such A Time As This: Journeying with Tribal Peoples by Shaw, Georgia Grimes (2012) - The years I spent with First Nation[footnoteRef:4] peoples (1968-1986) allowed me time and place to be good news to the poor as I learned their cultural ways and languages. While in Pasadena, I had spent a good deal of time with the Shaw family[footnoteRef:17], house sitting and taking care of their three sons periodically. Keywords: bible; change; dan; god; language; learning; life; lord; people; samo; time; work; years
• A 2 Slices of Papua New Guinea Life by Loving, Aretta (2012) - A fiction-based-on-fact article that Tressa wrote for an advanced placement high school English class showed us not only that her talent for writing blossomed under these devoted teachers but also that she longed to see Awa people come to know Jesus. Who would have dreamed this missionary would be the secretary who typed drafts of the entire Awa New Testament as many as five times in those years we were translating? Keywords: awa; day; jesus; life; new; people
• A5 Creating Windows: Planting God’s Word in Papua New Guinea by McCarthy, Joy (2012) - In contrast to the first Kanite New Testament dedication there was a wonderful celebration and three weeks of the Biblical Education Leadership Training (BELT) conducted by Youth With a Mission. Kanite people gathered around the helicopter at a remote village Without the helicopter this would have taken us at least four days of very difficult mountain climbing; four nights of sleeping in a local village hut and at least two days to recover. Keywords: god; guinea; kanite; language; literacy; people; testament; training; village
• B1 Trauma is Poverty’s Twin: Stories that Shaped My Journey by Engdahl, Lisa (2012) - Out of this renewal movement on college campuses on the West Coast, many students moved into urban poor communities when they graduated. It can be an occupational hazard of people in urban poor mission to judge other Christians for their materialism, and to adopt an attitude of superiority and a notable rigidness about simple living. Keywords: mission; partners; people; work
• B3 Mongolians: How They Came Into My Heart by Chung, K. Sue (2012) - During the first 3 years of our time, Yun and I had established friendship with many people and now most of them have become pastors of Mongolian churches and key people in other Christian organizations. It was a divine appointment of God and perfect timing. Keywords: god; life; mongolia; people; time; work; years; yun
• C5 Opening Windows: My Journey As A Trainer of Writers by Thomas, Nancy (2012) - In the midst of the excitement of applying my passion for writing to the encouragement of Aymara writers, questions began to surface. Somehow it all connected to the original joy of writing my first poem and, years later, the satisfaction of seeing Aymara writers emerge to bless their own context. Keywords: aymara; god; people; poem; writers; writing; years
• CONCLUSION: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE by Watson, Jude Tiersma; Shaw, Georgia (2012) - On another occasion Betty Sue found herself surrounded by a group of big guys taunting her about where Cain get his wife…with an immediate response, Betty Sue said, “It doesn’t matter where Cain got his wife, what matters is do you know Jesus?” Life in Venezuela was simple and being home schooled was especially suited to Betty Sue’s personality as she organized her own schedule and usually got her school work done by noon and had the rest of the day free, even in high school. As usual Betty Sue’s more introvert processing balanced Tom’s extreme extrovert visionary processing. Keywords: betty; betty sue; brewster; culture; god; language; learning; lord; ministry; mission; missionary; new; people; school; sue; time; tom; work; world; years
• We compromise the gospel when we settle for truth: how “right” interpretations lead to “wrong” CONTEXTUALIZATION by Wu, Jackson (2013) - Baker, 2012), 65.� � � ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {citationID:9qDOr4Sm,properties:{formattedCitation:{\\rtf N. T. Wright, \\i How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels\\i0{} (New York, N.Y.: HarperOne, 2012), 72.},plainCitation:N. T. Wright, How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels (New York, N.Y.: HarperOne, 2012), 72.},citationItems:[{id:1448,uris:[http://zotero.org/users/467902/items/QNWEVFEN],uri:[http://zotero.org/users/467902/items/QNWEVFEN],itemData:{id:1448,type:book,title:How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels,publisher:HarperOne,publisher-place:New York, N.Y.,event-place:New York, N.Y.,call-number:0000,shortTitle:How God Became King,author:[{family:Wright,given:N. T.}],issued:{year:2012}},locator:72}],schema:https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json} �N. T. Wright, How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels (New York, N.Y.: HarperOne, 2012), 72.� � Examples of works that emphasize this individual focus include � ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {citationID:8NpXaRD8,properties:{formattedCitation:{\\rtf Mark Seifrid, \\uc0\\u8220{}Unrighteousness by Faith: Apostolic Proclamation in Romans 1:18\\uc0\\u8211{}3:20,\\uc0\\u8221{} in \\i Justification and Variegated Nomism: The Complexities of Second Temple Judaism\\i0{} (ed. D. A. Carson, Mark A. Seifrid, and Peter T. O\\uc0\\u8217{}Brien; Grand Rapids, Mich.: Exodus language is used in the prophets (pointing to the end of exile and the salvation of God people) and in the New Testament. Keywords: god; gospel; honor; ill; interpretation; items; jesus; language; law; mich; new; people; rapids; right; scripture; testament; users/467902; world; � �
• Vulnerable Mission Strategies by Nussbaum, Stan (2013) - We advocates of vulnerable mission don’t aim to fail. Vulnerable mission starts from different premises. Keywords: god; gospel; language; mission; money; people; thinking
• The Immorality of the Promotion of Non-Indigenous Languages in Africa by Harries, Jim (2013) - Elsewhere, including in Kenya, there was rhetoric in favour of African languages. Transplanting the British legal system to Kenya (and other African countries) may not be what it seems, because the understanding of legal (and other) terms will be influenced by the vernacular terms and procedures (of African languages) that they are seen as translating. Keywords: a.m.; africa; context; development; english; language; people; tanzania; use; way; word
• Understanding and Responding to the Prosperity Gospel in Africa by Harries, Jim (2013) - Many African people see wealth as arising as types of blessing. The arguments I present above should have made it clear why many African people choose to remain silent on these issues; either they are happy to accept the ‘magic’ involved, or their own vested interests are in the continuation of the current system, with all the immediate benefits involved especially for people in key positions with a knowledge of English. Keywords: african; ministry; mission; people; prosperity; religion; understanding; wealth; west; westerners
• CONTEXTUALIZING THE ONE GOSPEL IN ANY CULTURE: A MODEL FROM THE BIBLICAL TEXT FOR A GLOBAL CONTEXT by Wu, Jackson (2013) - � See � ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {citationID:D0XGh900,properties:{formattedCitation:{\\rtf Piper, \\i God Is the Gospel\\i0{}.},plainCitation:Piper, God Is the Gospel. IVP Academic, 2013); N. T. Wright, “Paul’s Gospel and Caesar’s Empire,” Center of Theological Inquiry (Princeton) 2 (Spring 1999): 42–65;� � ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {citationID:ut3Qx8uI,properties:{formattedCitation:{\\rtf Richard A. Horsley, ed., \\i Paul and Empire: Religion and Power in Roman Imperial Society\\i0{} (T&T Clark, 1997); Denny Burk, \\uc0\\u8220{}Is Paul\\uc0\\u8217{}s Gospel Counterimperial?: Keywords: \\i; christ; citation.json; csl; csl_citation; god; good; gospel; ill; items; jesus; jesus gospel; king; language; master; news; paul; people; place":"wheaton; schema; style; users/467902; zotero_item; � addin; � �
• A fresh approach for ministry to American Jewish-Gentile couples by Zaretsky, Tuvya (2010) - Birth rate The 1990 NJPS also discovered a birth rate of 1.8 children per Jewish couple in America households. 8 Demographer, Samuel Heilman, analyzed the findings of the 1990 NJPS, “Jewish identity seems to have moved increasingly toward ethnicity or heritage and culture, while being a ‘good Jew’ has been defined in vaguely moral terms.” Keywords: american; children; christian; community; couples; evangelistic; families; family; gentile; gentile couples; god; identity; interfaith; intermarriage; jewish; jews; judaism; ministry; new; people
• Biblical Theology from a Chinese Perspective: Interpreting Scripture through the Lens of Honor and Shame by Wu, Jackson (2013) - � � � ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM {citationID:UBcsF2Es,properties:{formattedCitation:{\\rtf Jackson Wu, \\i Saving God\\uc0\\u8217{}s Face: A Chinese Contextualization of Salvation through Honor and Shame\\i0{} (Pasadena, Calif.: WCIUP, 2013), 10\\uc0\\u8211{}68.},plainCitation:Jackson Wu, Saving God’s Face: A Chinese Contextualization of Salvation through Honor and Shame (Pasadena, Calif.: WCIUP, 2013), 10–68.},citationItems:[{id:1868,uris:[http://zotero.org/users/467902/items/A849QRC5],uri:[http://zotero.org/users/467902/items/A849QRC5],locator:10–68}]} �Jackson Wu, Saving God’s Face: A Chinese Contextualization of Salvation through Honor and Shame (Pasadena, CA: WCIUP, 2013), 10–68. � For Chinese culture, see David Yau-fai Ho, “On the Concept of Face,” AJS 81, no. 4 (1976): 870. � � ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM {citationID:7OyUdQrZ,properties:{formattedCitation:{\\rtf Hui Ching Chang and G. Richard Holt, \\uc0\\u8220{}A Chinese Perspective on Face: A Inter-Relational Concern,\\uc0\\u8221{} in \\i The Challenge of Facework: Cross-Cultural and Interpersonal Issues\\i0{} (ed. Keywords: \\i; chinese; contextualization; culture; face; family; god; gospel; honor; israel; items; jesus; nations; people; shame; theology; users/467902; world; � �
• Vulnerable Mission as an Alternative to Failing Aid Paradigms: Facing Reality on Reaching Africa by Harries, Jim (2013) - Few would deny the beauty of the deeply held values of brotherhood and respect held by many African people. The Reality of Aid Reading early (or even later) accounts of life in Africa, or visiting the continent, should make it clear that the way of life of African people results in their living in what in Western English can be termed ‘poverty’. Keywords: africa; life; maranz; mission; people; west; world
• THE GOSPEL WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS: A CONCRETE EXAMPLE OF CULTURAL CONTEXTUALIZATION by Wu, Jackson (2013) - � � � ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM {citationID:GDFlF8Oe,properties:{formattedCitation:{\\rtf Li Wen, \\uc0\\u8220{}Young Chinese Couples Face Pressure from \\uc0\\u8216{}4-2-1\\uc0\\u8217{} Family Structure,\\uc0\\u8221{} \\i People\\uc0\\u8217{}s Daily Online\\i0{}, August 25, 2010, n.p. Xiaojing yizhu [Translated notes on The Book of Filial Piety], (Beijing, Zhonghua Book Company), 1. � � ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM {citationID:pL6jiwP2,properties:{formattedCitation:{\\rtf Rappa and Tan, \\uc0\\u8220{}Political Implications of Confucian Familism,\\uc0\\u8221{} 93.},plainCitation:Rappa and Tan, “Political Implications of Confucian Familism,” 93.},citationItems:[{id:1503,uris:[http://zotero.org/users/467902/items/FBIB6V8S],uri:[http://zotero.org/users/467902/items/FBIB6V8S],locator:93}]} �Rappa and Tan, “Political Implications of Confucian Familism,” 93.� � � ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM {citationID:b2v5ybQE,properties:{formattedCitation:{\\rtf Jenny Yau, Judith Smetana, and Aaron Metzger, \\uc0\\u8220{}Young Chinese Children\\uc0\\u8217{}s Authority Concepts,\\uc0\\u8221{} \\i Social Development\\i0{} 18, no. 1 (2009): 211, 221, 224.},plainCitation:Jenny Yau, Judith Smetana, and Aaron Metzger, “Young Chinese Children’s Authority Concepts,” Social Development 18, no. 1 (2009): 211, 221, 224.},citationItems:[{id:1889,uris:[http://zotero.org/users/467902/items/2AX78NAU],uri:[http://zotero.org/users/467902/items/2AX78NAU],locator:211, 221, 224}]} �Jenny Yau, Judith Smetana, and Aaron Metzger, “Young Chinese Children’s Authority Concepts,” Social Development 18, no. 1 (2009): 211, 221, 224.� � � ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM {citationID:idkJvMFz,properties:{formattedCitation:{\\rtf Kwang-Kuo Hwang, \\uc0\\u8220{}Guanxi and Mientze: Conflict Resolution in Chinese Society,\\uc0\\u8221{} \\i Intercultural Communication Studies\\i0{} 8, no. 1 (1997): 30.},plainCitation:Kwang-Kuo Hwang, “Guanxi and Mientze: Conflict Resolution in Chinese Society,” Intercultural Communication Studies 8, no. 1 (1997): 30.},citationItems:[{id:1891,uris:[http://zotero.org/users/467902/items/JVCIIZNT],uri:[http://zotero.org/users/467902/items/JVCIIZNT],locator:30}]} �Kwang-Kuo Hwang, “Guanxi and Mientze: Conflict Resolution in Chinese Society,” Intercultural Communication Studies 8, no. 1 (1997): 30.� � I do not suggest that the child obeys whatever his parents command. Keywords: \\i; children; china; chinese; culture; face; family; father; god; gospel; honor; items; jesus; n.p; new; online; parents; people; shame; users/467902; world; zotero_item; � addin; � �
• AUDIO BIBLES AND THE ENDS OF THE EARTH by Jackson, Morgan (2013) - Audio Bible Distribution For the first 15 years of our international ministry, Bible recordings on cassette were the primary media choice. Within just a few years we were being approached by missionaries and pastors from other countries pleading with us to expand our work to include other languages as poverty and illiteracy were major barriers to missions work. Keywords: audio; bible; god; people; world
• Would Jesus Tweet? Why Videos, Websites, and Tweets are more than a Passing Fad by Bender, Doug (2013) - Would Jesus leverage videos, social media, and the world wide web to spread the world’s most important message? Because in an age where leaders too often come off as unreal superheros, social media allows you the chance to be personal, raw, and a bit more human, a chance, we think, Jesus would have jumped at. Keywords: jesus; media; people
• GOSPEL PROCLAMATION AMONG THE URBAN POOR by Tino, Rev. James (2010) - We know that there will always be poor people among us, but the question for us as Western missionaries is, “will we be among the poor?” II. These two factors - fear and unmet needs – create (or at least, contribute to) the desire for protection and for supernatural assistance, which are key for understanding the widespread practice of various forms of popular religion or “folk religion” by poor people around the world. Keywords: class; gospel; life; people; problem; religion
• Understanding and Teaching Religious Belief Systems in the 21st Century Missions by Allison, Norman E. (2010) - Since our class is concerned primarily with understanding non-Western belief systems, this understanding is further illustrated through readings from Nuer Religion, by E. E. Evans- 9 Pritchard. In the specific application and integration of all these factors, I need to further state that my own study of religious belief systems began during the ten years I spent working among the Arabs of Jordan and Lebanon. Keywords: anthropology; belief; course; level; model; new; people; press; religion; students; systems; thought; world
• Application of Lim’s Model in Measuring Missionaries’ Job Satisfaction by Evaluating Their Degree of Contextualization in Mission Field by Lim, Theodore (2013) - There are people who can adapt to different cultural environments very well, but some people do not deal well with those in other cultures. Personality and Intimacy Each individual's personality and level of intimacy preference are of such importance in adapting to other cultures. Keywords: contextualization; culture; degree; language; mission; missionaries; people; survey; work
• Jigger Fleas, Spirits, Inter-cultural Theology and the Development of Africa by Harries, Jim (2013) - Hence it is important that outsiders who want to work in such a way as to bring sustainable benefit to African people should communicate using African languages, as far as possible from within an African cultural framework. Such people do not have the freedom to talk about ‘them’ (i.e. Africans) in any kind of objective way, because they are ‘one of them’. Keywords: africa; feet; flea; jigger; people; west; world
• Video Translation: Opportunity and Challenge by Dye, T. Wayne; Hatcher, Tim (2013) - We think that with fewer than twenty video portrayals, video Scriptures would result in much better communication. Those relationships will inevitably be portrayed in some way in video Scriptures; we depend on exegetes and consultants to help us make those portrayals be as true to source culture meaning as possible. Keywords: bible; information; jesus; language; new; original; people; scripture; translation; video; written
• VULNERABLE MISSION: THE USE OF LOCAL LANGUAGE AND RESOURCES, IN THE WORK OF THE ANGLICAN MISSION IN BORNEO by Varney, Peter (2014) - Perhaps Iban Christians may offer some new conceptualizations to other parts of the Christian world where traditional religions have encountered western Christianity. Few of today’s Iban Christians or church leaders use such language about hell today. Keywords: anglican; borneo; christian; iban; mission; people; sarawak; sebayan; traditional; world
• ECONOMIC DISCIPLESHIP: VULNERABILITY TO LIBERATE THE VULNERABLE by Grigg, Viv (2014) - I was teaching our ten principles of economics Grigg, 2010() to a cluster of slum pastors in a beautiful slum church with plywood walls and galvanized iron roof in an African city. Productivity XE “productivity” Good outcomes 6yrs and 49 yrs of productivity Parables of multiplying seed as a Kingdom XE “Kingdom” principle 4.Cooperative Economics XE “cooperative economics” Let “us” make Common purse, Not a needy one among them Provide for others 5. Keywords: discipleship; economics; good; jubilee; pastors; people
• DOES HOLISTIC MISSION GUARANTEE HOLISTIC CHURCHES? by Johnson, Jean (2014) - Alan Johnson, who has served as a missionary for twenty-seven years in Thailand and has written much about the Buddhist worldview, suggests that local churches are uniquely placed to implement ministry as word and deed within their communities: Local churches have “family” type characteristics, work primarily within their own sociocultural sphere, have a multiplicity of giftings, and their members are embedded in relationships within the community. (2011:67–73) But is this holistic mindset and subsequent social action more rare or common among local churches? Keywords: christian; churches; client; community; mission; patron; people; worldview
• THE TALK LEADS THE WAY (ASTRAY): MISSION AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA TODAY by Harries, Jim (2014) - As well as destabilising communities, it carries the strong implicit message that African peoples are perpetually dependent clients of wealthy powerful Western patrons. Let us say that equivalents of both yes and welcome in African languages do not mean what they do in English: Terms such as Ee for ‘yes’ are in a sense grunts of appreciation for a sharing of mutual humanity rather than an acknowledgement of the correctness of what someone has said. Keywords: africa; diagram; english; language; people; system; world
• An Uncomfortable Challenge: Lessons for Today’s Diasporas from the First Century Diaspora by Crane, Michael D. (2014) - Through the centuries, Jewish diaspora communities have been some of the most prominent, and the missiological implications of these communities are worth examining. Many diaspora communities have faced unimaginable suffering due to community prejudice or government policies designed to favor the majority population, not to mention what they may have endured in their land of origin. Keywords: assimilation; christians; communities; community; diaspora; god; jews; majority; people; population
• Internet Evangelism by Missiology, Global (2010) - Posting articles • Website housekeeping (using website and reporting broken links, etc.) Remember, there are huge needs for evangelistic sites in non- English languages. Keywords: christians; evangelism; gospel; non; online; people; site; web; website
• Worldview, Challenge of Contextualization and Church Planting in West Africa, Part 3: West African Worldviews by Tuche, D. (2010) - But it should be pointed out that other West African peoples are not as individualistic as the Igbo. Worldview, Challenge of Contextualization and Church Planting in West Africa Worldview, Challenge of Contextualization and Church Planting in West Africa Part 3   West African Worldviews D. Tuche Published in www.GlobalMissiology.org “Contextualization” January 2009 (Editor’s note: this is the 3rd of a 4-part series on worldview in West Africa) I had argued strongly in a previous work that West Africans are culturally different from African Americans, and therefore require a different missiological approach in regard to presenting the gospel to those that have migrated to the United States and other parts of North America.1 In this article, I wish to share some the West African worldviews in general which most of their immigrants to the United States and Canada share in common. Keywords: african; ancestors; beings; culture; god; good; group; ibid; igbo; life; man; materialism; new; people; religion; spirits; states; west; world; worldview
• BIBLICAL THEOLOGY AND CROSS-CULTURAL THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION: THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS AS A MODEL by Sun, Wendel (2015) - Instead, this article will argue that biblical theology offers a readily available solution to many of the problems associated with cross-cultural theological education. This is not to label biblical theology as the “silver bullet” that solves all problems, but rather to suggest biblical theology as a starting point for a way forward. Keywords: cross; god; paul; people; romans; story; theology; use
• RELATIONAL REFLECTION ON “GOD’S INITIATIVE, MAN’S NEED” -– PART 2 of 2 by Ho, Pseudonym, Lee-Chow (2010) - People are important to God and His agenda – a book (scroll) of remembrance was written before Him. Dialogue breaks down barriers between God and between man and man and man. Keywords: god; lord; need; people
• Review of "The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative" by Christopher J. H. Wright by Kreitzer, Mark (2010) - “The mission of God will be to preserve and maximize the blessing that is inherent in the multiplication of the spread of the nations while removing the blight of human sin and arrogance represented by Babel” (Wright 2007, 203). The mission of God is not merely the salvation of innumerable souls but specifically the healing of the nations” (Wright 2006, 456). Keywords: christ; creation; fall; god; israel; mission; nations; people; wright
• SERVING CHINA’S INTERNAL DIASPORA: MOTIVE, MEANS AND METHODS/MISSIONS by Wan, Enoch; Dow, Joe (2016) - Rural Migrants in Urban China: Enclaves and Transient Urbanism. “The Moving Population: An Introduction to the Urban Migrants of Modern China,” Kaifa Group, Commissioned by China Source. Keywords: china; christ; churches; city; compassion; diaspora; gospel; migrants; people; years
• Miraculous Movements: How Hundreds of Thousands of Muslims are Falling in Love with Jesus by Kreitzer, Rev. Mark R. (2016) - The last chapter applies the principles Dr. Trousdale shared throughout the book especially on how to run a Discovery Bible Study step by step after much prayer and finding “people of peace.” Many Muslim people groups with no communities of Isa among them now have fifty or more such communities. Keywords: book; disciples; discovery; god; people; trousdale
• The Ethnic Enemy—No Greek or Jew . . . Barbarian, Scythian: The Gospel and Ethnic Difference by Ferdinando, Keith (2010) - First, there is the question whether ethnic groups are 'real' or 'socially constructed'; and second, whether human beings are attached to ethnic groups out of calculation of personal interest (in which case they are instrumental) or out of deeply rooted feeling and sentiment (in which case they are primordial). Ethnic groups give themselves names and perpetuate them; share myths of origin and historical memories; shape a common language and culture of which religion or worldview is a fundamental constituent; and foster a sense of common identity—of belonging. Keywords: christ; difference; ethnicity; genocide; god; groups; hutu; identity; love; nation; new; people; rwanda; sense; terms; tutsi
• To Compromise on Missionary Vulnerability in Africa? - A Response to Critics of 'Vulnerable Mission' by Harries, Jim (2016) - It is very important for many African people to have a home built in the rural area even if they live and work in the city, for a similar reason. In the absence of a secular worldview in Africa, a non-missionary will also often be seen by many African people as representing God or being a god. Keywords: africa; community; god; life; missionaries; missionary; patron; people; resources; system; way; westerners
• Look at Us (Acts 3:4): The Missionary Image and Its Implications by Johnson, Jean (2016) - or you could refer to them as missionaries. Missionaries walk about in their host countries, districts, or villages. Keywords: jesus; man; missionaries; missionary; people; peter; world
• Building Castles in the Sky: A Case for the Use of Indigenous Languages (and Resources) in Western Mission-partnerships to Africa by Harries, Jim (2016) - That is – for a Western language to be used with respect to Western cultural presuppositions, and an African language to be used with respect to African cultural presuppositions. For example 9.00 a.m (English) becomes saa tatu (i.e. 3 a.m.) in African languages or 10 o’clock in African languages becomes 4 p.m. in English. Keywords: african; context; language; mission; people
• Christianity in China: From the History and Operation of “Evergreen China Service” and Beyond by de Ruiter, Laura (2016) - China Aid Association 2013, 2012 Annual Report
Chinese Government Persecution of Christians & Churches in Mainland China, China Aid, Midland. Voiceofthemartyrs.com, China Aid, etc. Keywords: china; chinese; christianity; christians; government; people; persecution; stories; story; west
• The Necessity of the Use of African Languages in African Church and Society by Harries, Jim (2016) - “Why are you talking to the White man in Dholuo you idiot” said the bus driver to his conductor sitting next to him as we were shooting down the road The Necessity of the Use of African Languages in African Church and Society Jim Harries Published in www.GlobalMissiology.org July 2016 “We should write our theology in African languages, because otherwise there are so many misunderstandings …” (Stinton 2006:141, citing Benezet Bujo). I tell them that English does not translate into African languages and vice versa. Keywords: context; dholuo; english; language; people; use
• Neglect One, Neglect the Other by Johnson, Jean (2016) - Neglect the Idiom, Neglect the Worldview Worldview and language are inseparable. Worldview is housed in language, right down to its idioms. Keywords: authenticity; language; neglect; people; resources; worldview
• What Jesus Started: Joining the Movement, Changing the World By Steve Addison by Christmas, Robby (2016) - Part 2 – What Jesus Continued to Do: The Twelve and the Early Church Part 3: What Jesus Continued to Do: Paul and His Team Once again keeping with the pattern, the first chapter of Part 3 explains how Jesus helped Paul develop a vision to spread the gospel. Keywords: addison; disciples; jesus; movement; paul; people
• NATIONAL IDENTITY IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA PART 2: THE PARADIGM APPLIED by Vanderwerf, Mark (2010) - Part 1 of this paper proposed a framework for examining national identity as it exists in Bosnia- Herzegovina. In this paper I attempt to demonstrate how the first paradigm in the proposed framework can be used to exploring national identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Keywords: bosnia; croats; ethnic; herzegovina; identity; language; national; nations; paradigm; people; person; press; religion; serbs; university; use; war
• An ‘Impact Model’ of Language, Mission and Development in East Africa by Jim, Harries (2016) - An ‘Impact Model’ of Language, and its implications for development’ in East Africa 2 An ‘Impact Model’ of Language, Mission and Development in East Africa Jim Harries Published in www.GlobalMissiology.org January 2017 “… we should write ...in African languages because otherwise there are so many misunderstandings” Bénézet Bujo, cited in Stinton (2004:141) It is this kind of confusion, presumably, that caused Bujo to say on behalf of African theologians: “we should write ...in African languages because otherwise there are so many misunderstandings”.[footnoteRef:19] I will continue this critique of the use of foreign languages in governance in Africa using a further argument below.[footnoteRef:20] Keywords: africa; context; east; english; impact; kenya; language; meaning; new; people; use; word
• RESONANCE AND SYNERGY: THE IMPACT OF ORAL BIBLE STORYTELLING IN RURAL ETHIOPIA by Jagerson, Jen (2017) - The STS method seems to not only teach a skill about telling Bible stories for proclaiming the Gospel, it provokes richly engaged levels of transformation and intensive training for interpretation of scripture. (1) It attends directly to the content of particular biblical stories as written by the authors rather than crafting stories together from larger portions of the biblical text. Keywords: bible; community; god; learners; method; narrative; new; orality; participants; people; stories; story; text
• DIASPORA MISSIOLOGY FOR GLOBAL MISSIOLOGY: PROLOGOMENA by GM, Staff at (2010) - Armenian Diaspora  Barnard Project on Diaspora and Migration  Cyborg Diaspora and Virtual Imagined Community  Cybernauts of the Arab Diaspora  Diaspora: A Journal in Transnational Studies  Diaspora Polska  Dread History: The African Diaspora, Ethiopianism, and Rastafari  Baganda in the Diaspora  ISBN: 0292706628 Asian Diaspora (General) Richardson, E. Allen, East Comes West, Asian Religions and Cultures in North America, Cleveland, OH: The Pilgrim Press, 1985. Keywords: african; america; asian; caribbean; chinese; christian; community; cultures; diaspora; ethnic; history; international; isbn; isbn-10; jewish; journal; migration; new; people; research; south; studies; world
• GOSPEL PRAYER WITH AND FOR PEOPLE IN HONOR-SHAME CULTURES by Grimms, Linda (2017) - “The biblical conviction that God is active in the world, active in human history through people He sends, is at the heart of mission.” The mission of the church is to “go into the world and make disciples by declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Spirit and gathering these disciples into churches, that they might worship the Lord and obey his commands now and in eternity to the glory of God the Father.” Keywords: cultures; global; god; gospel; gospel prayer; honor; jesus; kindle; mission; people; prayer; shame
• Studying Islam and Engaging Muslims: Some Things to Know and Where to Learn It by Robinson, George (2010) - Studying Islam and Engaging Muslims 9 07 GGS.doc Studying Islam and Engaging Muslims: Some Things to Know and Where to Learn It George Robinson, Assistant Editor of Global Missiology & Global Leadership Development Published under “Contemporary Practice” at www.globalmissiology.org, October 2007 Since 9/11, the subject if Islam has been thrust into the spotlight before a bewildered Western world. Courses offered address both traditional approaches to Islamic thought and the areas that pose special challenges to Christian witness today such as folk Islam, the fundamentalist resurgence, and the contextualization of the gospel for particular Muslim people groups. Keywords: islam; muslims; people; resources; world
• Toward a Biblical Understanding of Finishing the Task by Cooper, Michael T. (2018) - Focusing on understanding people groups, Winter and Koch developed a more elaborate nomenclature; having divided people into various approaches to reaching and understanding them: Cultural Blocs, Unimax People, Socio People, and Ethno-linguistic People (Winter and Koch 2002). Types of Peoples Major Cultural Blocs Ethnolinguistic Peoples Socio-peoples Unimax Peoples Composition Broad categories of people groups Often a cluster of unimax groups An association of peers Networks of families with a shared identity What Defines Group Religious-cultural spheres Linguistic, ethnic & political boundaries Activities or interests Social and cultural prejudices How Identified Available published data Available published data Discovered on site Discovered on site Strategic Significance Global overview Mobilization and strategy Small group evangelism Church planting Quantity 7 major cultural blocs Approx. Keywords: christ; commission; god; gospel; groups; jesus; mark; people
• Attenuate English, for the sake of the African poor - by Jim Harries by Harries - Alliance for Vulnerable Mission; jimoharries@gmail.com, Jim (2018) - Because of the dominance of Western English, the former is formally what ‘is there’, which they may not be trying to say at all. The assumption that Africans simply ‘get’ Western English is the basis on which African people are taken into leadership of many Western-originated projects. Keywords: african; english; languages; non; people; professor; use; ways; west
• Worldview: A Vulnerable Mission Ingredient - by Fred Lewis by Lewis - Eur. Christian Mission(NA); Book Rev'w Ed., EMS Oc Bul'n; flewis.ecmna@gmail.com, Fred (2018) - I doubt I would ever have come up with that explanation on my own, but based on what I knew about Russian culture, his observation made perfect sense. The existence and functioning of collectives is deep in Russian culture and history. Keywords: culture; god; life; mission; people; russian; worldview
• How to Watch and Evaluate Bible-videos Critically - by Johannes Merz by Merz - Anthropology Consultant with SIL International and International Media Services, Johannes (2018) - This leads me to the next important principle about how we understand and interpret video images. This article discusses some important principles of image creation and interpretation, which are foundational for developing the skills needed to watch videos critically and to evaluate them. Keywords: bible; images; jesus; people; videos
• gme-2145 by None (None) - Methods I interviewed people involved in witch accusations in Kenya for about one to two hours each. Further analysis shows that jealousy, envy, hatred, anger, and a scapegoat mentality are the root causes of witch accusation in Kenya. Keywords: accusation; community; family; gathoni; god; kamau; people; power; shosho; witchcraft
• The Africanisation of Missiology: The Work of InnerChange South Africa to Raise Up Local Missionaries and Decolonise Black African Minds (Part I) - by Luc Kabongo by Kabongo - From DR Congo; Miss stud't U Pretoria; in SAfr township of Soshanguve since 2008, Luc (2018) - Sherwood (2009:1) views decolonisation as a method required to shift the current paradigm of Western cultural dominance and colonisation’s deplorable consequences of amnesia that maintains African indigenous knowledge as second class and unimportant. Biko (quoted by Mbembe 2007:135-137) was a young man who spent most of his short life thinking about how Black people in South Africa could decolonise their mind in order to actively win for themselves a greater degree of intellectual, political and cultural autonomy. Terreblanche (2014:353) argues against this viewpoint, saying that the primary task of colonisation was to convert indigenous Africans to Christianity and to inculcate loyalty to indigenous people towards their colonial masters. Keywords: african; education; innerchange; jesus; knowledge; mind; people; south; world
• Editorial - by J. Nelson Jennings by Jennings - Onnuri Church, Seoul: Mission Pastor, Consultant, Int'l Liaison; GM-E Editor, J. Nelson (2018) - Rather, the statement is a confession that points both to God’s magnificence and to the contextually confined character of your, my, every other individual’s, and all human communities’ senses and conceptions of who God is, how he works, as well as the scope of people with whom he relates. Our attempted confinement of God and his work is true even for those of us who have extensive, multi-contextual experience, e.g., for people who comfortably speak several languages. Keywords: god; people
• The Africanisation of Missiology: The Work of InnerChange South Africa to Raise Up Local Missionaries and Decolonise Black African Minds (Part II) - by Luc Kabongo by Kabongo - From DR Congo; Miss stud't U Pretoria; in SAfr township of Soshanguve since 2008, Luc (2018) - It builds greater self-reliance among black communities, cultivates an economics of affection, and builds on the assets of traditional structures that support networks among groups connected by blood, kinship, community and other affinities such as religion. Conclusion In many black African poor communities such as Soshanguve, the colonial narrative is still very dominant and it is keeping many of our neighbours from being agents of their own well-being. Keywords: africa; black; community; god; innerchange; ministry; neighbours; people; soshanguve; south; wars
• Theological Education for or from Native Americans? My Anthropological Journey - by David Beine by Beine - Great Northern U: Dean, College of Global Engagement, Prof Intercultural Studies, David (2019) - By way of example, he compared the need for Western theology (under the influence of modernity and dualism) to develop a rigid systemization of theology as science, while indigenous Christian theology operating outside the confines of Western thought have not found it necessary to arrive at the same “absolutes.” If this is true, Christian ritual might prove fertile ground for “forming, informing and transforming the Christian life” (10) for Native peoples still following oral traditions. Keywords: american; christian; education; indian; indigenous; people; ritual; theology; twiss
• Language and Translation in China’s Historical Protestant Missions: Sharing the Word(s) of God in the Far East - by James W. Ellis by Ellis - Hong Kong Baptist U: Research Assistant Professor Academy of Visual Arts, James W. (2019) - Chinese Bible translations and Chinese hymns will be discussed in depth later, but it is important to note that the Protestant missions focused on spoken and written language from the outset (Barnett and Fairbank 1985). During this period, Protestant missions spread the gospel message to the Chinese populace, translating and otherwise communicating God’s Word through Chinese languages and regional dialects. Keywords: bible; china; chinese; christian; hymns; language; mandarin; missionaries; missionary; morrison; new; people; protestant; tracts; translation
• Africa’s Metaphors Are Essential to Its Functioning and Identity: Ignore Them at Your Peril - by Jim Harries by Harries - Alliance for Vulnerable Mission: chair; missionary in East Africa since 1988, Jim (2019) - Outside interventions have failed to engage African metaphors because of a bias against their “unscientific” (spiritual, theological) nature. Such metaphor choices are widely recognised as being 'religiously' determined. Keywords: africa; choice; crime; god; human; metaphor; people; science; west
• Amazed and Perplexed #1: The Multilingual Spirit’s Reconfiguration of God’s People - by J. Nelson Jennings by Jennings - Onnuri Church: Mission Pastor, Consultant, International Liaison; GME: Editor, J. Nelson (2019) - As the use of multiple languages at Pentecost evidenced, God “now ... commands all people everywhere to repent,” Paul proclaimed to the Athenians (Acts 17:30). Even with their international composition, however, the varied tapestry of Jewish people present were “bewildered,” “astonished,” “amazed,” and “perplexed” when they heard “in our own [multiple] tongues the mighty works of God” (Acts 2:11). Keywords: european; god; jesus; people; spirit; work; world
• Amazed and Perplexed #2: The Crucified and Enthroned Jesus, Humility, and Suffering - by J. Nelson Jennings by Jennings - Onnuri Church: Mission Pastor, Consultant, International Liaison; GME: Editor, J. Nelson (2019) - Also, especially within this article’s overall thrust of “The Crucified and Enthroned Jesus, Humility, and Suffering,” should not Christians be compelled to follow Jesus’s example in serving among those laborers who come from poorer settings in search of a better life, including to help support family and friends back in their home settings? While focusing on Korean missions, the article explores the worldwide outworking in recent times of the exalted Jesus, forever bearing his Crucifixion wounds, especially moving among those who are humble and who suffer. Keywords: christians; god; jesus; korean; people; south; suffering; world
• gme-2306 by None (None) - Nor are science and technology any less available to God for his purposes in Christian mission than are the kind of macro-historical developments sketched above. Key Words: communications, history, technology, transportation Introduction “Jesus of Nazareth, … delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. Keywords: developments; foreknowledge; god; jesus; missions; people; plan; website; world
• Amazed and Perplexed #4: Every Nation under Heaven - by J. Nelson Jennings by Jennings - Onnuri Church: Mission Pastor, Consultant, International Liaison; GME: Editor, J. Nelson (2020) - While it would therefore be ill-advised to minimize divine dealings with all peoples in past generations by suggesting that God has somehow increased his work among all peoples more recently, within God’s providence the heightened contact between people throughout the world has increased the levels of our respective awareness of other peoples. Even so, few people in today’s hyper-linked world can remain isolated enough not to be aware that there are other people, including followers of Jesus, who live differently. Keywords: god; gospel; jesus; missionaries; people; work; world
• Do Mission Events Really Have a Long-Lasting Impact On the Younger Generation? - by Evi Rodemann by Rodemann - theologian and event manager, Evi (2020) - How do Mission Events Seek to Call Young People into Missions? Though she left this endeavour in 2016, her MA (in European Mission and Intercultural Christianity) dissertation focused on Mission-Net (Rodemann 2016) and contributed research on the heretofore little studied field of event impact. Keywords: conferences; congress; event; impact; mission; net; participants; people; person
• Overcoming “Domination”: A Vulnerable Approach to Inter-cultural Mission and Translation in Africa by Harries, Jim (2020) - Contrary to widely held assumptions of profit maximisation, African people may prefer to minimise profit to avoid having wealth when others do not have it, and so to avoid becoming the victims of envy, i.e. witchcraft attack. Outsiders had made it clear that they were not going to allow the whim of African people to force them into an exodus. Keywords: africa; churches; english; language; mission; missionaries; people; today; translation; way; west
• gme-2363 by None (None) - Other cultures end up “exporting” and “importing” people in order to survive from generation to generation. The model in other words must demonstrate unity, diversity, complexity of relationships, growth and change, and interactions with other cultures. Keywords: culture; culture tree; model; patterns; people; tree; values
• Technology as a Modern-Day Tower of Babel: The Garden of Eden as an Alternative Vision for Missionally Engaging a Media-Saturated Culture by Topf, Daniel (2021) - In contrast, in this current age of digital media countless people experience sex through the various offers made through internet pornography, rather than through an actual physical encounter. Among these were car manufacturers and oil companies but also telecommunication and pharmaceutical firms (like AT&T and Pfizer). Keywords: babel; companies; digital; god; media; new; oil; people; tech; technology; tower
• Conversion or Proselytization? Being Maasai, Becoming Christian by Barron, Joshua Robert (2021) - Key Words: contextualization, conversion, Maasai Christianity, proselytization Introduction Scholars typically use the term “‘conversion’ to describe changes in ‘established customs’ or ‘religion’” (Kling 2020, 588). Conversion in Maasai culture In spite of many analysts’ pessimism about Maasai acceptance of the gospel, the truth of Christianity apparently enables an increasing number of Maasai to make better sense of the world, at least judging by the numbers of those turning to Christ. Keywords: african; bible; christianity; conversion; culture; gospel; language; maasai; new; oxford; people; press; proselytization; religion; studies; walls
• Media Engagement beyond the Coronavirus by Dahle, Rudolf Kabutz and Lars (2021) - How does God influence others through media messages people contribute? Media influence often leads to change. Yet while Christians desire to influence through the media, they are also influenced by media messages. Keywords: christians; engagement; god; influence; media; messages; people; transformation
• God’s Plan for the Fullness of Time: Overhauling Ralph Winter’s “Ten Epochs” and “Three Eras” Models (Part III) by Jennings, J. Nelson (2021) - How groups and communities live and interact within socio-political contexts is of fundamental importance and needs some sort of place in historical missions models. Any historical model of God’s mission should follow that example and not frame missions history in reference to historical junctures and figures from only one sector—in the present case, Great Britain and the United States of America. Keywords: april; christian; eras; frontier; god; history; missions; models; movement; people; ralph; winter; world
• The Trouble with Kindness in the Acts of the Apostles by Hertig, Paul (2021) - Kindness Leads to More Kindness Noteworthy is what happens after this supernatural community, fresh from Pentecost, living in joy and harmony, relates to the surrounding world. The Progressing Theme of Kindness in Acts Luke develops the counter-cultural theme of kindness throughout the book of Acts. Keywords: acts; apostles; god; good; jesus; kindness; people; peter; power
• Apologetics in a Digital Age: Incarnating the Gospel for Africa’s Next Gens by Ndereba, Kevin Muriithi (2021) - Abstract This article explores how digital media culture affects young people in African cities in three major areas. Three Effects of Digital Culture among African Next Generations The need for “wise-engagement” arises from the fact that digital media culture has shaped Africa’s next gens in three important ways. Keywords: acts; africa; apologetics; christian; culture; engagement; media; paul; people; youth
• Does the DMM Approach Lead to Movement Breakthrough? by Prinz, Emanuel; Goldhor, Alison (2022) - Movement Catalysts: The Profile of the Leaders God Uses to Catalyze Movements. Table 2: Contributing factors to movement breakthrough ranked by effective catalyst rating Factors that contribute to movement breakthrough Catalysts Non-catalysts Difference Contribution of prayer 4.76 4.61 +0.14 Raised up leaders effectively 4.55 3.75 +0.81 Used reproducible disciple-making 4.52 3.97 +0.54 Adopted right ministry strategy 4.51 3.71 +0.8 Met holistic needs 4.17 3.67 +0.50 Used discovery approach/groups 4.16 3.45 +0.72 Besides being the most significant contributing factor in movement breakthrough, “fervent intercession” is also shown to be a key trait of effective movement catalysts. Keywords: approach; breakthrough; catalysts; dmm; ministry; movement; non; people
• Healing Miracles, Church Planting Movements, and Population Dynamics by Lewis, David (2022) - Those countries are not only economically poorer than many industrialized countries but also have demographic patterns with a higher proportion of younger people. A statistically significant finding (p=<0.001) was that “a great deal” or “total healing” was reported much more commonly by younger people than older people (Lewis 1989, 63-65; 1993, 335-336). Keywords: god; healing; jesus; john; miracles; movements; people
• Polycentric Leadership for Kingdom Movements (Part I) by Handley, Jr., Joseph W. (2022) - Addison then defines the key roles for movement leaders: “Their job is to 1) seed discontent with the status quo, 2) cast a vision of what God could do, and 3) provide simple but profound methods to get people started and help them remain on track” (Addison 2015, 141). Perhaps most insightful to understanding movement leadership is their description of “catalysts” from the book The Starfish and the Spider (Brafman and Beckstrom 2006): Keywords: collaboration; esler; january; kingdom; leadership; mcchrystal; mission; movements; new; people; teams; world
• Prerequisites for Movements? Questioning Two Widely-Held Assumptions by Prinz, Emanuel; Coles, Dave (2022) - Through demonstrating that neither length of prior gospel proclamation nor gospel receptivity are normative factors, this study points to pioneering movement catalysts as a key factor in catalyzing movements. Steve Smith’s research into church planting movements affirms this conclusion: “There may be hardened people groups, but in every one there are harvestable individuals” (Smith 2011, 83). Keywords: god; gospel; groups; movements; people; pioneer; years
• The Hazara Minority in Afghanistan: A People Group Case Study: [This article was created by the following faculty-student team from Dallas Theological Seminary:] by Bennet, Kerri; Dvorak, Kimberly; Kipp, Lane; McGill, PhD, Jenny; Tavárez, Ramón (2022) - The family unit is the main societal structure in Hazara villages. Safety Concerns A missionary recounts his first opportunity to visit a Hazara village and illustrates the many physical barriers and safety concerns in traveling to their homeland: During the spring of 1990, God led a new Hazara acquaintance to invite me to his mountain village. Keywords: afghanistan; communication; country; education; gospel; groups; hazara; hazara people; jesus; people; work; world
• Polycentric Leadership for Kingdom Movements (Part II) by Handley, Jr., Joseph W. (2022) - This idea of movement leadership in an age of networks (as shown through Esler in movement leadership and McChrystal through the lens of military leadership) is pivotal for leadership in a global era. Some terms used to describe network leadership include host, servant leader, helper, network weaver, and network orchestrator.  Keywords: avery; community; kingdom; leadership; mission; model; movements; need; network; new; people
• Vulnerable Mission in Africa: Why Some of Today’s Intercultural Missionaries Should Restrict Themselves to Local Languages and Resources by Harries, Jim (2022) - We who are not African should not expect African people to do what we cannot. Hence what African people say may not align with how we Westerners describe or recount things in our orientation to “objectivity.” Keywords: african; english; foreign; language; people; westerners
• The Role of Signs and Wonders in Movement Breakthrough by Prinz, Emanuel; Goldhor, Alison (2022) - In doing so it reports the findings from two studies, the first-ever empirical research into effective movement catalysts (Prinz 2016) and the first-ever empirical study of factors that either contribute to or inhibit the catalyzing of movements (Prinz, Lewis, and Goldhor 2021). Conclusion Overall, the data reveals that effective movement catalysts possess a strong expectant faith that God will show his power through them—and he does! Keywords: catalysts; faith; movement; people; signs; wonders
• The “House of Life”: A Russian-to-International Pentecostal Movement by Lewis, David (2022) - For a church or movement to break beyond the confines of its own broad cultural or linguistic affinity group requires giving greater attention to certain biblical principles or practices that have to some extent been taken for granted, under-valued, or even ignored in the currently prevailing discipleship process of many movements. It is noteworthy that the title of Jedidiah’s book (just cited), Keys to Adopting Nations, contains the plural word “Keys” because the House of Life recognize that there are several different approaches for reaching other cultures. Keywords: culture; god; house; life; movement; people; russian
• Jangkholam Haokip and David W. Smith, eds., Voices from the Margins: Wisdom of Primal People in the Era of World Christianity by Priest, Felicia Chinyere (2023) - The author ably identifies the need of tribal people that Christianity has not met and provides how it can be met: inculturation. On the other hand, Christianity is experiencing geographical relocation (numerical growth of Christianity is greater in the Southern Hemisphere) and social transformation (a greater number of Christians are today found in areas of economic deprivation and among tribal people once considered inconsequential). Keywords: chapter; christianity; gospel; orality; people; world
• PDF icon opens file, then see top right for download. by GME (2023) - Rather, such miracles were results of situations which presented themselves. They have also shared describable traits with other people, situations, encounters, and events, but each particular person and episode within the outworking of God’s mission has carried its own fascinating characteristics worthy of marvel, interest, and discerning examination. Keywords: aid; catalysts; christ; christian; churches; competencies; consensus; development; global; god; international; issn; jesus; july; kivebulaya; lack; life; listening; literature; miracles; missiology; missiology issn; mission; movement; new; owerri; people; publications; research; safeguarding; story; study; time; traits; vol; world
• The Role of Formal Theological Education in Missiological Strategies in Honor/Shame Contexts by Daub, Anna (2023) - Formal Education and Honor In honor/shame cultures, missionaries must question the relationship between formal education and honor. This article argues that missionaries working in honor/shame cultures need to consider the possible role of formal theological education in preparing a church elder/overseer (πρεσβύτερος, ἐπίσκοπος) to be able to teach. Keywords: cultural; cultures; education; honor; missionaries; people; shame
• Great Commission Prioritization of Countries: Helping to Make Completing the Great Commission More Meaningful for All Believers by Pitterle, John (2010) - Many follow-up actions like more focused prayer and new missionaries or gospel resources targeted for countries with many least reached people can be pursued. Because most Christians can more easily locate countries rather than people groups, readily available missions information was used to prioritize the nations using ten criteria. Keywords: christian; commission; countries; country; nations; people; population; world
• The Role of Listening in Intercultural Settings: The Empathetic Act of Listening Gives Voice to Marginalized People Groups by Peyton, Joey R. (2023) - Key Words: active empathetic listening (AEL), aid worker, care, counseling, diaspora, immigration, intercultural encounters, listening, migration, pastoral care Introduction At the foundation of pastoral care and counseling is the art and act of active empathetic listening. With global digital availability that influences/distracts the lives of us all, no matter how remote one may be, active empathetic listening becomes increasingly rare with the accessibility and overstimulation of digital media/entertainment. Keywords: care; god; listener; listening; people; stories; story; world
• Preventing Abuses in the International Aid Sector: A Global Effort, and a British-based Case Study by Harries, Jim (2023) - This study points to a clear risk that British efforts at imposing safeguarding from afar can result in dangers to British people and projects as well as locals in LMIC, who understand safeguarding (i.e., ways of preventing sexual and other abuse of vulnerable people) differently. Possible consequences for being in non-compliance with British law include involvement of INTERPOL, imprisonment, being considered guilty unless proven innocent, and making it illegal for British people to support me financially. Keywords: aid; development; international; lmic; people; safeguarding; vulnerable
• The Miracle Theology Factor in Pentecostal Churches in Owerri by Okeke, Ifeanyi J. (2023) - It may not therefore be an overstatement to conclude that Pentecostal churches in Owerri dance miracle, announce miracle, expect miracle, pray miracle, preach miracle, walk miracle, sleep miracle, wake miracle, and teach miracle. Most importantly, what could be the powers behind such a quantum leap of miracle claims by this sect of Christian faithfuls? Keywords: christian; churches; claims; god; healing; jesus; life; miracles; mission; nature; owerri; people; power; theology; word
• Editorial - The Beauty of Particularity by Jennings, J. Nelson (2023) - Each of these studies considers particular people and situations. This July issue offers several enlightening analyses of numerous particular situations, contexts, and challenges in worldwide Christian missions today. Keywords: particularity; people
• “WEIRD” Psychology and Christian Leadership by Lewis, David (2023) - As the educational systems of most countries are dominated by curricula derived from WEIRD cultures, the more educated members of such non-WEIRD societies begin to behave more like WEIRD people. This limitation applies also to studies of leadership traits. Keywords: competencies; cultures; god; human; leadership; movement; people; prinz; traits
• Looking into the Sky: Hope for Han-Uyghur Reconciliation by Kin, Ari; Joseph, Abigail (2023) - This fact underscores the amount of jobs Han Chinese people have been getting in Xinjiang and how very few of those jobs have been going to the Uyghurs, formerly the majority ethnic group in that region. In Urumqi, Han men have often lamented the fact that Uyghur women—despite often being forced to do so because of genocide and “ethnic cleansing”—are unwilling to marry them (New 2017). Keywords: chinese; han; man; people; riots; stereotypes; urumqi; uyghur
• The Hindutva Movement in Northeast India: Situating Manipur Christian Suffering in Context by John (2023) - On the other hand, for tribal people land, culture, and identity are inseparably connected, as Sitlhou beautifully expresses: “Changes in land relations lead to a redefinition of identity” (Sitlhou 2015, 70). The rise of the assimilative ideology and vision for Akhand Bharat (“Undivided India”) under the current Indian government has directly targeted tribal Christian communities of Northeast India for three reasons: 1. Keywords: christian; churches; communities; india; kuki; land; manipur; people; tribal; violence
• More Local than the Locals: An Ethnoscopic Analysis of a Philippine Seminary by Qalb, Danyal (2024) - The findings from the ethnoscopic analysis prompted significant changes in my teaching approach and interactions with students at a local seminary. Key Words: mission, orality, pedagogy, theological education Introduction Since 2018, I have taught at a local seminary where I noticed students grappling with a curriculum akin to my educational experience in Germany. Keywords: education; english; jesus; learning; people; philippines; stories; students; teaching
• 1619, 1919, and Today by Jennings, J. Nelson (2024) - March 1 was declared a public holiday soon after Korea’s 1945 liberation from Japan, and it remains so in both North Korea and South Korea to this day. Regarding the March 1, 1919 Korean Independence Movement (Samil Undo in Korean), one necessary clarification for outsiders is that at that time there was neither a “North Korea” nor a “South Korea.” Keywords: africans; america; declaration; events; history; independence; japan; japanese; korea; koreans; movement; new; people; united; world
• Anthropologists Taking an Interest in Christianity, and Missionaries in Anthropology: A Constructive Contextual Engagement by Harries, Jim (2024) - Even though a foreign imposition onto Africans, Western missionaries in Africa increasingly acquiesce to use of European languages in their engagements with African people. Self-imposed strictures and the role of western missionaries in cross-cultural mission to Africa. Keywords: african; anthropologists; anthropology; christian; christianity; missionaries; people; vähäkangas
• Time and Revival by Gitau, Wanjiru M. (2024) - Rather, modern humans, Christians not exempted, have come to place emphasis on the autonomous subject who adulates quick gratification, revels in a sense of being in control of history, and is uncomfortable with this notion of long stretches of chronos time—clock time—by any stretch of the imagination, when there seems to be little that God is doing. God is the God of time, of space, of history. Keywords: baptist; god; israel; people; time
• GOD’S NEW ENVOYS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: THE MANDATE FOR THE GLOBAL MISSION by Yamamori, Tetsunao ("Ted") (2010) - For our purposes, people groups are best defined as culturally and linguistically separate peoples (such as the Maasai tribes of Kenya or the Hmong hill tribes of Laos). The 77 countries and thousands of people groups which are currently closed tend to be predominantly in the Muslim and Communist world.' Keywords: christ; christian; god; people; world
• A Mathematically Based Model of Disciple Making Movements by Keener, Chris; Foster, Dave (2025) - For example, we the authors are able to answer questions that have nagged us for decades, such as: If a practitioner considers two options to spend an equal amount of time and effort— 1) purely scattering the seed of the Gospel, and 2) spending more time developing a small group of people from nonbelievers into faithful followers of Jesus—which option will lead to more people ultimately coming into a deep relationship with Christ marked by a life of obedience and love? Effective practitioners share the gospel with many people, but they also filter by investing more time with those who respond positively to the initial declaration of the gospel. Keywords: disciple; god; gospel; jesus; people; population; rate; receptivity; relationships; time
• GOSPEL PROCLAMATION AMONG THE URBAN POOR by Tino, James (2010) - We know that there will always be poor people among us, but the question for us as Western missionaries is, “will we be among the poor?” My own sense of the situation, however, is that Western missionaries feel uncomfortable and “out of place” working among the poor. Keywords: class; gospel; life; missionary; people; problem; religion
• Editorial by Jennings, J. Nelson (2025) - Similarly, a number of humble Christian mission servants are familiar to many Christian circles and in some cases beyond, including Patrick, Alopen, Cyril and Methodius, Francis Xavier, William Carey, Mary Slessor, Nicholas of Japan, and Nate Saint. In reference to this issue’s articles, humble servants seek to rescue “downcast sheep” for the sake of those sheep, not for their own advancement or recognition. Keywords: god; people; service
• Guest Editorial: Mission on the Move by George, Sam (2025) - Being an open-access and widely read scholarly journal, many quarterly issues focused on diaspora communities have played a critical role in disseminating the concept of diaspora missions globally. In this issue, we feature another set of exceptional articles on diaspora missions from a select set of seminary students, academicians, practitioners, and pastors from many different regions of the world. Keywords: christian; diaspora; god; migrants; mission; people; world
• DIASPORA STRATEGIST: THE MISSIONARY WORK OF JOHANN ONCKEN by Effa, Allan (2010) - This became the oldest surviving Baptist church on the continent. I. INTRODUCTION I am drawn to the life and ministry of Johann Oncken because the movement he spawned is of personal significance to me. Keywords: baptist; churches; germany; hamburg; ministry; movement; oncken; people
• GLOBALIZATION, MIGRATION AND MISSION IN THE NEPALI CONTEXT by Inchley, Valerie M. (2010) - Similarly, from 1951/2 missions (e.g. International Nepal Fellowship, United Mission to Nepal) and INGOs have been allowed to work in Nepal and most major countries have opened embassies. Those who stay in Nepal tend to end up in shanty areas in and around Nepal’s towns, most of which are growing at an unprecedented rate” (Seaman – Today in Nepal October 2005:4). Keywords: children; christian; diaspora; globalization; india; inf; international; kathmandu; migrants; migration; mission; nepal; nepalis; people; population; seddon; world
• gme-308 by None (None) - Muslim Bengalis moved to what is now Bangladesh (East Bengal) and Hindu Bengalis remained in West Bengal. o Worldwide Diaspora � Bengalis are immigrating to India and beyond (USA, UK and Europe). Keywords: bengalis; india; people
• gme-309 by None (None) - In Chinese History. In Chinese History.......................................................................................................................... Keywords: act; american; angel; angel island; asian; china; chinese; christian; documentary; exclusion; family; family history; figure; gary; god; gospel; healing; history; immigration; island; leaves; life; mar; nations; people; repentance; reunion; station; tree; war; world
• gme-310 by None (None) - Worldviews and Culture: Interacting with Charles Kraft, N. T. Wright, & Scripture - 7 - Worldview and Theology The New Testament theologian N. T. Wright offers an introduction to the subject of worldview that is more perceptive and helpful than Kraft’s, one that offers correctives for his views. Worldviews and Culture.doc Worldviews and Culture: Interacting with Charles Kraft, N. T. Wright, & Scripture - 1 - Worldviews and Culture: Interacting with Charles Kraft, N. T. Wright, & Scripture by Ralph Allan Smith For me, as a missionary to Japan, the question of culture is an inescapable and important issue. Keywords: culture; god; ibid; kraft; people; story; worldview; wright
• The Story of China's Persecuted Church by Bollback, Anthony (2010) - Several schools located in the surrounding villages near Puyang sent their best students to participate in the speech contest Principal Woo organized each year. Several weeks passed without further incident, but then one day, as school was being dismissed, a crowd of noisy students suddenly appeared, rushing toward the school. Keywords: anching; heart; life; luping; meiling; people; school
• WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY? MEMETICS, QUANTUM MECHANICS, AND THE SPIRAL OF SPIRITUALITY by Rosado, Caleb (2010) - Deep ecology and an ecofeminism is now doing the same to scientism—especially in its capitalistic and patriarchal forms—as destroying human life, exploiting women, and annihilating the ecosystem. Here also are various form of New Age spirituality.. Keywords: compassion; existence; experience; forms; god; human; level; life; mechanics; memetics; methodology; nature; new; october; people; quantum; religion; research; self; spiral; spirituality; systems; thinking; understanding; value; world
• THE GREAT COMMISSION IN RUSSIAN CONTEXT by Dmitrievsky, Vasily (2010) - “What ultimately solidifies our assurance is the fact that we are saved and secured by the work of Christ as testified in Scripture and promised by God.” Conclusion: Evangelism Training is Vital The literature study and the Bible help to identify the main issues and content of personal evangelism and lead to addressing them in evaluation of the e3 Partners model of personal evangelism training. First, after personal evangelism training, believers will know the biblical foundations for personal evangelism and the content of the gospel. Keywords: believers; christ; evangelism; faith; god; gospel; jesus; paul; people; training
• MISSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH: TOKYO 2010 REFLECTIONS by Harris, Mark (2010) - Decades of real experience by many people and organizations in mission research have borne this out. We were given two one-hour sessions to discuss issues related to missiological research. Keywords: data; information; leaders; mission; people; qualitative; research
• DIASPORA MISSIOLOGY AND MISSIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE 21ST CENTURY by Wan, Enoch; Tira, Sadiri Joy (2010) - Yet in “diaspora mission,” the situation is very different. That is why in diaspora missions, there is no barrier nor unreached people. Keywords: century; christian; diaspora; diaspora missions; global; missiology; missions; new; paradigm; people
• The Meaning of Meaning by Tippet, Alan R. (2010) - His important discussion on the threefold concept of “selection”, “rejection” and “reinterpretation” aims not only at eliminating the heathen elements, but at fulfilling “the adopted elements with genuine Christian meaning”; thus the preservation of cultural forms is not syncretistic, for “by structured catechetical instruction” they are “filled with the new reality of God’s grace.” The same form may have different meanings to the same audience in different situations. Keywords: acceptor; advocate; christian; cross; culture; fijian; form; gospel; meaning; missionary; people; problem; research; syncretism; worldview
• Ritual and Sacrifice Among the Dinka of Southern Sudan: Implications for Christian Evangelism and Discipleship by Fancher, Karen (2010) - Issues that are not addressed in Dinka traditional religion are salvation (reconciliation with God) and eternal life. A recurrent theme in Dinka religion is the imploring of God to restore the world’s erstwhile unity and goodness, the need for which becomes manifest when man suffers misfortunes of sickness and death.” Keywords: african; atr; christian; dinka; god; issue; life; people; religion; sacrifice; spear; sudan; vol
• gme-423 by None (None) - The idea that human identity is not a given, but is something that we make, is termed 'constructivism'. The above examples all provide us with an idea of what postmodernity is all about: the expansion of choice and the tailoring of those choices to your own personal needs, wants and whims create an experienced world where postmodern ideas seem to make sense and so are more widely accepted. Keywords: culture; difference; identity; mission; people; society
• “All Things to All People”?: Mission, Conversion and Providence in a Global Era by Stackhouse, Max L. (2010) - For the most part, most people live by a basic assent to the reigning system of social life, which anthropologists usually call a “Culture” and sociologists call “Society” – in either case, a system of interacting beliefs, structures, and habituated practices governed by an “ethos” – a dynamic cluster of interlocking principles, purposes and values that become incarnated in the institutions of the common life into which we are socialized and that basically guide existence. If this contention is valid, it will require a modification of the dominant interpretations of history and social life in contemporary thought, most of which claim that the most powerful forces in society are political, or economic, or cultural, and that these determine the nature, motivations, and history of religion and, thus, of missions. Keywords: christianity; christians; civilization; community; conversion; god; history; human; justice; life; missions; new; people; persons; religions; society; traditions; world
• Gospel Proclamation of the Ascended Lord by Hoefer, Herbert (2010) - However, Jesus Christ took the punishment on the cross that we deserved, and so we are set free and receive eternal life as God’s gracious gift because of Christ. We are called to remember and confess the simple facts: “Jesus Christ… who… suffered…was crucified….rose… ascended.” Keywords: christ; god; gospel; jesus; life; living; lord; people; spirit
• Globalization and Postmodernism’s Impact on Asian Emigration - Have Affluent Christians Lost their Way in The World? by Wong, Chai Kee (2010) - With globalization Christians may unwittingly or unashamedly slide into the cesspool of postmodernism. Christians who side-step the spiritual side of global emigration do so at their own peril. Keywords: calling; christians; emigration; globalization; life; lifestyle; mission; people; postmodernism; singapore; talent; world
• OVERCOMING SYNCRETISM BY CONTEXTUALIZATION by Wood, Rick (2010) - Making the Gospel Indigenous Can we pick up the broken pieces of this wreckage and begin to see people movements to Christ among Native Americans? This is not just a problem for people in the West. Keywords: americans; culture; people
• Worldview, Challenge of Contextualization and Church Planting in West Africa – Part 1: Definition of Worldview and the Historical Development of the Concept by Tuche, D. (2010) - Worldview, Challenge of Contextualization and Church Planting Worldview, Challenge of Contextualization and Church Planting in West Africa – Part 1:  Definition of Worldview and the Historical Development of the Concept D Tuche    Published in Global Missiology “Contextualization” July 2008    www.globalmissiology.net     (Editor’s note: this is first of a 3‐part series on worldview in West Africa)    INTRODUCTION This is an introductory study on worldview and contextualization in West Africa covering several themes to form the basis for subsequent studies: Contextualization and worldviews, multi-disciplinary understanding of worldview, culture and worldview, contextualization and worldviews. In this introductory study of the 3-part series on worldview and contextualization in West Africa, a review of the literature on several themes have been conducted: contextualization and worldviews, multi-disciplinary understanding of worldview, culture and worldview, contextualization and worldviews. Keywords: christian; christianity; contextualization; culture; gospel; hiebert; kraft; people; reality; understanding; worldview
• WEB OUTREACH AS PART OF CHURCH PLANTING STRATEGY IN A CREATIVE ACCESS NATION by A Pseudonym, Montier Sturdevant (2010) - Next I will give a description of our approach to Web site outreach. Ministries around the world are seeking to use Web sites to reach the unreached through direct evangelism, evangelism training, discipleship of believers, and Christian worker training. Keywords: christian; email; evangelism; internet; online; outreach; people; persuasion; site; web; web site
• gme-585 by None (None) - Those cricketers who would like to do so can make an effort to learn football language if they so desire. To insist that football language dominate cricket, as at the moment, is inhuman. Keywords: africa; cricket; football; globalisation; god; language; people; speak; umpire; use; way
• Church Issues in Togo: A SWOT Analysis of the Church Growth Context in Togo - According to Selected Pastors by Harris, Mark J (2011) - Rather than focusing on the unreached population, and working in harmony toward that end, many churches focus on ways to attract members from other churches to transfer to their own congregations. The purpose of this research project is to inform Westerners (and perhaps some Togolese as well) regarding “SWOT” (i.e. strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) of Togolese churches, as understood by a selected group of Togolese pastors from various denominations. Keywords: churches; god; men; pastors; people; togo; togolese
• ‘LOVE OF NEIGHBOR’ AND TOYOHIKO KAGAWA’S CHRISTIANITY by Inagaki, Hisakazu (2011) - Since Christian love or ‘Love of neighbor’ is the central idea of Kagawa, many non-Christian Japanese can understand it clearly. How does liberal democracy express Christian love for others? Keywords: brotherhood; christian; kagawa; love; people; public; society; state
• IS IT POST- MODERN, OR IS IT JUST THE REAL THING? CHALLENGING INTER-CULTURAL MISSION - A PARABLE by Harries, Jim (2011) - Those cricketers who would like to do so can make an effort to learn football language if they so desire. To insist that football language dominate cricket, as at the moment, is inhuman. Keywords: africa; cricket; football; globalisation; god; language; people; speak; umpire; use; way
• gme-618 by None (None) - God says, “If there are people in your midst who don’t know me, take care of them and tell them about me”. In His sovereignty, today God is shuffling the pack, and washing people from various ethnic groups and cultural backgrounds all over the planet. Keywords: faith; god; ministry; people
• China Clippings by Bollback, Anthony (2010) - • Chinese workers discovered with Christian literature from overseas organizations have had the literature confiscated and in many cases, the workers have received long prison terms of as much as three years. Some have been expelled for having Chinese Christian literature in their homes. Keywords: china; chinese; games; people
• gme-719 by None (None) - Not all global cities access globalization functions in the same way and likewise, globalization functions through global cities in diverse ways (In Southeast Asian global cities for example, radical capitalism coexists in tension with rigid government bureaucracy such as Malaysia or Thailand). The foreign investment that drives economic globalization is managed from a small number of global cities, whose structural characteristics create a strong demand for immigrant labor.12 (Massey 1996, 196) Keywords: capital; cities; city; economy; globalization; ibid; international; islamic; malaysia; market; migrants; migration; muslims; new; overseas; people; urban; world
• Understanding and Teaching Religious Belief Systems in the 21st Century Missions by Allison, Norman E. (2010) - Since our class is concerned primarily with understanding non-Western belief systems, this understanding is further illustrated through readings from Nuer Religion, by E. E. Evans- 9 Pritchard. In the specific application and integration of all these factors, I need to further state that my own study of religious belief systems began during the ten years I spent working among the Arabs of Jordan and Lebanon. Keywords: anthropology; belief; course; level; model; new; people; press; religion; students; systems; thought; world
• MAKE HASTE SLOWLY by Caven, Jay (2010) - The purpose of Make Haste Slowly is to equip those working with other cultures to demonstrate “wholeness in mission.” The lesson of the agriculture example is equally important for those of us working to bring the Good News of Christ to other cultures. Keywords: culture; people
• THE POTENTIAL FOR EVANGELICAL APPLICATION IN THE SHI’A ISLAMIC DOCTRINE OF REVELATION by Curtis, Steve (2012) - Further, this is the form of revelation believed by Shi’a Islam to have been communicated through the imams and, to a lesser degree, to the ayatollahs of modern Shi’a Islam. The ‘Abassid dynasty (750-945), in fact, was initially in favor of Shi’a Islam, though they soon aligned with Sunni Islam and even became persecutors of Shi’a. Keywords: allah; christian; god; imam; islam; people; revelation; shi’a
• Review of REACHING THE WORLD IN OUR OWN BACKYARD: A guide to building relationships with people of other faiths and culture by Rethinasamy, Elwin Johnson (2010) - The third part is comprised of interacting tools and guidelines in presenting the Gospel to people of other religions. A guide to building relationships with people of other faiths and culture Rajendra K. Pillai. Keywords: people; world
• Common Ground and Enemy Territory: How Should We Approach Adherents of Other Faiths? by Hesselgrave, David John (2010) - As for the Christian mission to people of other religions, in the public arena the very idea of mission is challenged by a pervasive relativism and loss of absolutes, a general 2 misunderstanding of what it means to be “tolerant” of other faiths, and repeated appeals to be appreciative of religious diversity. In the missions themselves, there are various opinions on how go about the task of relating to adherents of other religions and communicating the gospel to them. Keywords: biblical; christian; faith; god; gospel; ground; jesus; kraemer; law; man; means; missionary; new; paul; people; religions; theology; truth; way; world

• Transforming Worldviews: An Anthropological Understanding of How People Change by Kreitzer, Mark (2010) - Hiebert addresses the impact of each on Christianity and mission and then lastly gives a brief outline for developing a biblical worldview in order to engage, critique, and help transform non-Christian worldviews. Fourth, human worldviews are constantly changing, only through Christ’s eyes can we “find the final revelation of God’s view of reality.” Keywords: christian; god; hiebert; human; modernity; reality; truth; worldview
• Can't We All Worship Together? by Greenway, Roger S. (2010) - As Harold Netland points out in his book Encountering Religious Pluralism: The Challenge to Christian Faith and 2 Mission (IVP, 2001), the traditional links between Christianity and Western culture are coming loose. The plain truth is that most Christians have never known anything else but religious pluralism and have been surrounded by non-Christian faiths. Keywords: christian; ethos; god; pluralism
• ”PARTNERSHIP” -- A RELATIONAL STUDY OF THE TRINITY AND THE EPISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS by Wan, Enoch; Yee-chong Wan, Johnny (2010) - A Trinitarian Study of Partnership The Triune God illustrates a supreme model of partnership in His works of creation and of salvation. A Human-Human Model of Partnership – A Horizontal Dimension Paul and the believers in Philippi demonstrated a model for partnership in mission, that between missionary and church. Keywords: christian; god; partnership; paul; philippians; son
• THE PHENOMENON OF DIASPORA: MISSIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR CHRISTIAN MISSIONS by Wan, Enoch (2012) - Diaspora Quick Links · African Diaspora Studies Links · African Diaspora (Universal Black Pages) · African Diaspora Links (Columbia U.) · Belonging and Diaspora: The Chinese and the Internet · Music from Africa and the African Diaspora · Mapping Africa: Africa and the Diaspora Movement · Anasazi Diaspora · From:educate.si.edu/migrations/rasta/rasta.html: The African Diaspora, Ethiopianism, and Rastafari www.educate.si.edu/migrations/rasta/rasta.html www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/african/ www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/Diaspora.html www.africana.com/ The African Diaspora in Latin America - LANIC The African Diaspora... From:lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/african/ African Studies - African Diaspora http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/Diaspora.html Angola Diaspora http://www.angola.org/referenc/Diaspora/ Armenian Diaspora http://users.erols.com/guerig/ http://www.armenianDiaspora.com/ http://www.armembassycanada.ca/Diaspora/Diaspora.htm www.armeniaDiaspora.com/ Belarusian Diaspora http://www.belarus-misc.org/bel-diasp.htm Chinese Diaspora http://www.huaren.org/body.shtml http://www.hardboiled.org/2-3/Diaspora.html http://www3.telus.net/arts/wunbu/ht_riot.html Congolaise http://www.Diaspora-cdger.de/ Filipinos in the Diaspora http://www.oovrag.com/~oov/ Greek Diaspora http://www.greece.gr/GLOBAL_GREECE/index.htm http://www.anemos.com/Diaspora/nep/ http://www.omogenia.com/newspaper/newsDiaspora.htm Haitian Diaspora http://www.teleDiaspora.com/Links.htm http://www.haiti-usa.org/modern/evolution.php http://www.hmtcc.org/Diaspora.html Hispanic Diaspora http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2000/07/Diaspora.html http://www.iesfonline.org/hispanic%20Diaspora.htm Indian Diaspora http://www.msn.co.in/nri/indianDiaspora/Default.asp http://www.indianest.com/spirituality/041.htm Irish Diaspora http://www.irishDiaspora.net/ http://cwis.livjm.ac.uk/soc/families/ Irish & Scottish http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ahrbciss/Diaspora.shtml Jewish Diaspora http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/Jews_Diaspora.asp http://www.livius.org/di-dn/Diaspora/rome.html http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/beyond-the-pale/english/04.html http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/HEBREWS/DIASPORA.HTM http://www.gesher-berlin.org/ http://www.israelmybeloved.com/history_prophecy/Diaspora_2/ Beth Hatefutsoth Museum of the Jewish People - - a museum about both Diaspora and Israeli Jewish... www.bh.org.il/ Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Diaspora and Israel - 1 The Jewish Diaspora and Israel. Keywords: african; asian; chinese; christian; churches; diaspora; escobar; europe; global; hanciles; migration; mission; movement; new; phenomenon; south; studies; world
• The Salvation of the Unevangelized: What the Literature Suggests by Altstadt, Robert; Wan, Enoch (2010) - InterVarsity Press, 2004 � Unger, Walter The Destiny of Those Who Have Never Heard: A Bibliographical Essay http://www.directionjournal.org/article/?822 (10 pages) �. � What Is Inclusive Christianity and Interfaith Ministry? Keywords: christian; god; gospel; inclusive; jesus; john; knowledge; pages; pluralism; religions; revelation; salvation; salvific
• The Day of Salvation for Muslims Everywhere: An Interview with Bob Blincoe by Blincoe, Bob (2013) - The Day of Salvation for Muslims Everywhere: An Interview with Bob Blincoe By Bob Blincoe and Duane Alexander Miller Botero Bob Blincoe is the US Director of Frontiers, an organization that is ‘with love and respect, inviting all Muslim peoples to follow Jesus. Duane Alexander Miller Botero lectures in Church history and theology at Nazareth Evangelical Theological Seminary in Nazareth of Galilee. Keywords: bob; book; christian; muslims
• KWAME BEDIAKO: CONSIDERATIONS ON THE MOTIVATING FORCE BEHIND HIS THEOLOGY AND IDENTITY by Howard, Kevin L. (2013) - �Bediako, Understanding African Theology in the 20th Century, Themelios vol. 20, no. 1 (October 1994): 18; Cry Jesus! �See Kwame Bediako, Scripture as the Interpreter of Culture and Tradition, in Africa Bible Commentary (ed. Keywords: african; ancestors; atr; bediako; christian; culture; god; gospel; ibid; identity; jesus; kato; revelation; scripture; theology
• A CRITIQUE OF CHARLES KRAFTS USE/MISUSE OF COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES IN BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION AND MISSIOLOGICAL FORMULATION by Wan, Enoch (2010) - Two books have been published in response to Kraft's Christianity in Culture, i.e. Edward N. Gross's Is Charles Kraft An Evangelical? METHODOLOGY The generous cooperation of Dr. Kraft of Fuller Theological Seminary, in the provision of an updated comprehensive listing (see Appendix I for a sample of selected titles) of his published works, is gratefully acknowledged. Keywords: 1979a; bible; christian; christianity; communication; conn; culture; evangelical; god; gospel; integration; interpretation; kraft; message; model; multi; new; revelation; sciences; theology; truth; wan
• Review of "God the Holy Trinity: Reflections on Christian Faith and Practice" by Wainwright, Geoffrey (2010) - Author Information: Timothy George (Th.D., Harvard University) is founding dean of Beeson Divinity School. Status: Fall 2006 Description: God the Holy Trinity brings together leading scholars from diverse theological perspectives to reflect on various theological and practical aspects of the core Christian doctrine of the Trinity. Keywords: christian; trinity
• DESCRIBING AN AFRICAN DANCING WITHOUT HEARING HIS MUSIC: KEVIN HOWARD HAS GENERALLY MISUNDERSTOOD KWAME BEDIAKO by Edu-Bekoe, Yaw Attah (2015) - This response to Howard’s proposition will begin with a brief description of the forever existing Euro-American negative attitude towards African culture including Bediako’s angst. It is made out of the usual Euro-American negative attitude towards African cultures. Keywords: african; akan; ancestors; attitude; bediako; christian; christianity; cultural; culture; faith; god; howard; jesus; kato; kwame; missionary; theology
• gme-1813 by None (None) - It is no coincidence that the first name for Insider Muslims was “Messianic Muslims.” Nevertheless, despite the lack of important legitimizing factors, Wilder asserts that Muslim Insider believers do exist. Keywords: believers; christian; christianity; community; contextualization; culture; ibid; insider; islamic; jesus; kraft; missionaries; movement; muslim; study; theological; woodberry
• IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT: TOWARD A TRANSCULTURAL TRINITARIAN WORLDVIEW by Horrell, Scott (2010) - Exploring God’s Relationship to Time (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2001); Garrett J. DeWeese, God and the Nature of Time (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004); Paul Helm, Eternal God: A Study of God without Time (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997); and Alan G. Padgett, God, Eternity and the Nature of Time (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992). The apophatic nature of Trinitarian confession reminds us that creeds exist both to define 1 Recent Trinitarian contributions include: Allan Coppedge, The God Who Is Triune: Revisioning the Christian Doctrine of God (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2007); Peter Drilling, Premodern Faith in a Postmodern Culture: A Contemporary Theology of the Trinity (Lanham, MD: Keywords: christian; creation; faith; father; god; holy; john; love; personal; son; spirit; theology; time; trinity; world
• gme-2019 by None (None) - 溫以諾、「基督徒從事「研究」—— 遵神旨或從人意？」，《教牧分享》，2005年11月號，第2-6 頁。 Papers published in English： Enoch Wan, “� HYPERLINK http://www.enochwan.com/english/articles/pdf/Paradigm%20of%20Inter-Disciplinary%20Research%20Methodology.pdf ��The Paradigm & Pressing Issues Of Inter-Disciplinary Research Methodology�,” Published in Global Missiology, Research Methodology, January 2005, www.globalmissiology.net _________, “� HYPERLINK http://www.enochwan.com/english/articles/pdf/Missiology%20and%20the%20Social%20Sciences.pdf ��Missiology and the Social Sciences: Contributions, Cautions, and Conclusions�” In Missiology and the Social Sciences, Edited by Edward Rommen and Gary Cowen, http://www.enochwan.com/english/articles/pdf/Missiology%20and%20the%20Social%20Sciences.pdf _________, “Rethinking Missiological Research Methodology: � Enoch Wan, “The Paradigm & Pressing Issues of Inter-Disciplinary Research Methodology,” Published in Global Missiology, Research Methodology, January 2005, � HYPERLINK http://www.globalmissiology.net �www.globalmissiology.net�. 2005:2. Keywords: chinese; christian; diaspora; enoch; enoch wan; evangelical; january; methodology; missiology; mission; paradigm; relational; research; research methodology; study; table; theological; theology; wan; www.globalmissiology.org
• An Interview with Duane Miller on Living Among the Breakage: Contextual Theology-Making and Ex-Muslim Christians by Curry, Marthe (2017) - However, over the long term it is not the main challenge that converts face—it is rather the formation of a stable and flourishing new identity as a Christian. Many converts come from ethnic groups where Islam is considered essential to that identity. Keywords: christian; converts; identity; islam
• Sanctification by grace: theological understanding and missiological implications for a Latin American context by Mac Kenzie, Guillermo (2018) - Clarifying this aspect of sanctification, Louis Berkhof explains, “Sanctification is not, like justification, a legal act of God, but a moral and re-creative activity, by which the sinner is renewed in his inner being and made to conform ever-increasingly to the image of God.” b) Demarest also explains it clearly, “Sanctification involves both God’s provision and the Christian’s participation… Although the initiative in sanctification is with God, necessary also are the believer’s willing and working.” Keywords: believers; christian; god; grace; holy; latin; sanctification
• An Evaluation of “Holy Yoga” as a Contextualized Strategy for Reaching Hindus - by Poon Chui King and Kenneth Nehrbass by King - Biola University: Doctoral Student, Intercultural Studies; Missions Mobilization, Poon Chui; Nehrbass - Biola University: Associate Professor, Intercultural Studies, Kenneth (2019) - Using Holy Yoga carefully Moreau states, “Contextualization means that the message is defined by Scripture but shaped by culture” (Moreau 2012:19, 35). “TEAM: serving the Holy Yoga community” Holy Yoga website, https://holyyoga.net/about/team/, accessed January 16, 2019. Keywords: body; boon; burnett; christian; god; hindus; holy; practice; yoga
• Creative Ways to Reach Out to Young Japanese Students: A Case Study of a Christian High School in Tokyo - by Aogu “Nick” Iida by Iida - International Christian University High School (ICUHS): Instructor, Aogu “Nick” (2020) - Students may not be at all interested in mission school Bible classes. It then discusses more generally how young people in mission schools in Japan might be reached with the gospel. Keywords: apologetics; bible; christian; japanese; mission; schools; students
• Lament and Missiology: Recapturing Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times - by Sahr Mbriwa by Mbriwa - Baylor University, Louise Herrington School of Nursing: Chaplain, Sahr (2020) - This section suggests that for followers of Christ lament is not only dialogical, i.e., speaking to God in distress, it is also dialectical, in that it is movement towards God by way of the cross. Though rarely interwoven with lament, the concept of dialectic, or the process towards truth by means of reconciling contradictions, has the potential to deepen our understanding of Christian lament. Keywords: christ; christian; death; god; gospel; lament; life; thought; west
• An Investigation of the Social Identity of Muslim Background Believers (MBBs) in Bangladesh in Light of the Set Theory, Critical Contextualization, and Self-Theologizing Teachings of Paul Hiebert (Part I) by Yun, Peter Kwang-Hee (2020) - “Social identity” is a more accurate and practical phrase for describing the complex reality MBBs confront in their actual life as a religio-social minority. In order to examine Bangladeshi MBBs’ challenge of social identity, this article interacts with paradigms and theories developed by Paul Hiebert to help understand and diagnose this reality, especially biblically. Keywords: bangladesh; believers; christian; community; contextualization; green; identity; isai; mbbs; muslim; self; social
• Reversion: Why do ‘Christian Converts’ from Islam Return to their Old Religion? What Can Be Done to Prevent It? by Span, John (2020) - The Story of Former Muslim Women In her study of conversion experiences in Israel/Palestine, Kathryn Kraft observed the pressures to revert back to Islam, and one case of actual reversion among the women she interviewed. It is the worrisome number of so-called converts who return to Islam. Keywords: believers; christian; christianity; conversion; converts; discipleship; faith; family; islam; muslim; return; ripken; women
• God’s Plan for the Fullness of Time: Overhauling Ralph Winter’s “Ten Epochs” and “Three Eras” Models (Part I) by Jennings, J. Nelson (2021) - Just as Piper’s earlier article follows Winter’s larger historical outline, this 1985 essay expressly utilizes “the insights of Ralph Winter, who has identified three major eras in Protestant missions history” (Piper 1985). J. Nelson Jennings Published in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, January 2021 Abstract Over the past half-century, Dr. Ralph Winter (1924-2009) shaped the framework, goals, and strategies of evangelical missions more than any other single missiologist. Keywords: christian; epochs; eras; god; history; missions; models; movement; ralph; winter; world
• An Investigation of the Social Identity of Muslim Background Believers (MBBs) in Bangladesh in Light of the Set Theory, Critical Contextualization, and Self-Theologizing Teachings of Paul Hiebert (Part II) by Yun, Peter Kwang-Hee (2021) - Local churches began to require missionaries to turn over leadership roles, but it has not been easy for missionaries, who have seen local leaders as immature, to transfer their ecclesiastical authority to local believers (Hiebert 1988, 194-195). In more than 200 years of history of Bangladeshi Protestant churches, there have been many dependency stories for several reasons: a huge gap between foreigners’ economic level and that of local believers, hierarchical structures from a denomination’s (or foreign mission’s) headquarters imposed on local churches, and patron-client relationships (Jennings 2007, 57). Keywords: bangladesh; believers; christian; community; contextualization; hiebert; identity; jamaat; mbbs; muslim; self; social
• Duane Miller, I Will Give Them an Everlasting Name: Pastoral Care for Christ’s Converts from Islam by Hill, Philip (2021) - The Church often speaks highly of Christian relationships while living at a much lower level of friendship and mutual care, hence Muslim background converts may be deeply disturbed by their experience of Christian fellowship. To provide answers to these questions, Miller reflects in brief chapters on a range of issues that he believes should be explained both to converts and to those offering them pastoral support. Keywords: christian; converts; miller
• God’s Plan for the Fullness of Time: Overhauling Ralph Winter’s “Ten Epochs” and “Three Eras” Models (Part II) by Jennings, J. Nelson (2021) - For his “pioneering” 1974 “The Historical Development of the Christian Movement” course at Fuller School of World Mission (Kraft 2013, 94), Winter’s four recommended textbooks were Christopher Dawson’s 1958 Religion and the Rise of Western Culture, a different survey of (Western) medieval history, and two on Christian mission history, one each by Stephen Neill and Kenneth Scott Latourette (Dawson 1958; Rather, as Winter carried out his wide-ranging studies in TESL, linguistics, anthropology, mathematical statistics, and theology, then served for ten years as a missionary among the Mam people in Guatemala, then began to teach missions history back in Southern California, his earlier imbibed engineering instincts and studies equipped him to wrestle through formulating schematic historical backdrops against which he could wholeheartedly give himself to the missions task of “Catalyzing Kingdom Breakthrough” through the USCWM starting in 1976 (Frontier Ventures 2020b). Keywords: april; christian; epochs; eras; frontier; history; international; kingdom; missions; models; movement; peoples; ralph; u.s.-american; western; winter; world
• EXPLANATION AND REFLECTIONS by Wan, Enoch (2010) - Microsoft Word - Wan-PAUL-revised.doc 1 EXPLANATION AND REFLECTIONSEXPLANATION AND REFLECTIONSEXPLANATION AND REFLECTIONSEXPLANATION AND REFLECTIONS Enoch Wan (Paul & Fran Hiebert, Brisbane, 1988 Credit: Paul E. Grant) By Paul Hiebert via telephone on March 3, 2007 http://www.westernseminary.edu/Media/DIS/DrHiebert2.mp3 Enoch Wan • “The Paradigm & Pressing Issues of Inter-Disciplinary Research Methodology” Published in Global Missiology, Research Methodology, January 2005, www.globalmissiology.net • “Rethinking Missiological Research Methodology: Exploring a New Direction,” Published in Global Missiology, Research Methodology, Oct. 2003, www.globalmissiology.net • “A Critique of Charles Kraft’s Use/Misuse of Communication and Social Sciences in Biblical Interpretation and Missiological Formulation,” Published in Global Missiology, Research Methodology, October 2004, www.globalmissiology.net • “Social Sciences and Mission,” Published in Global Missiology, Research Methodology, April 2005, www.globalmissiology.net • “Evangelical Theology, Postmodernity, and the Promise of Interdisciplinarity,” (with Mabiala Kenzo) Published in Global Missiology, Featured Articles, January 2006, www.globalmissiology.org • “Holistic Ministry/Missions: Reflections & Resource Material,” Published in Global Missiology, Featured Article, October 2005, www.globalmissiology.net (Taken at their farewell from Fuller in 1990: the Indian students hand made their matching leis – by Georgia R. Grimes Shaw). Keywords: christian; contextualization; enoch; fran; hiebert; missiology; paul; theology; www.globalmissiology.net
• An Enkiteng Hermeneutic—Reading (and Hearing!) the Bible with Maasai Christians: A Review Essay and Proposal by Barron, Joshua Robert (2021) - Maasai and the Bible Project Knut Holter of VID Specialized University in Norway recently oversaw a several-year project entitled “Potentials and problems of popular inculturation hermeneutics in Maasai biblical interpretation,” informally abbreviated as the “Maasai and the Bible” project. In the specific context of the Maasai people of East Africa, “While there are certainly areas where Maasai culture can benefit from Christian transformation, a recovery of traditional Maasai cultural values through a theologically robust process of inculturation can strengthen the Maasai churches as well” (Barron 2019, 17). Keywords: african; barron; bible; christian; culture; hermeneutics; holter; knut; maasai; new; project; readers; texts; theology
• The Christian Church(es) and Christian Movement(s) by Zagidulin, Ruslan (2022) - The current pandemic has shown that the Church is not merely a social institution, revealing itself instead to be a plexus of various social movements within the Christian Tradition. What, then, are the dynamics of polycentric Christian movements if there is no centre of Christianity? Keywords: christian; movements
• Missiological Iron Sharpening by Jennings, J. Nelson (2022) - The missiological iron sharpening in this collection of articles is multifaceted and filled with soul-searching reflection. In our pursuit of constructive discussions on what has become an important and sometimes charged topic, the GME editorial team approached Rhodes as well as Arlund and Farah about contributing articles that, while approaching the “movements” and movements-methodologies discussion from contrasting points of view, would seek to engage each other respectfully and meaningfully. Keywords: articles; authors; christian; iron; mission
• Aby Alexander, Prasad Phillips, and Reji Samuel, Christian Management in a VUCA World: Reflections from a Global Pandemic Context by Manokaran, J. N. (2022) - He writes that Christian management should be studied by exploring biblical concepts of management and examining management concepts in light of Christian values. According to Aby Alexander, “Seeing management from a Christian point of view enables us to respect, review, reflect, redefine, redeem, and restore management principles and practices; this augments the value and worth of management as a practice” (11-12). Keywords: christian; management; vuca; world
• A Pneumatological Theology of Religion: Amos Yong’s Approach by Abraham, Jose (2023) - Imposing a Christian interpretive framework on other religious traditions would eliminate such serious encounters with other traditions. Abstract In our religiously and culturally pluralistic “global village,” Christians cannot bear witness to the gospel without engaging religious others missionally. Keywords: amos; christian; pneumatological; practices; religions; spirit; theology; world; yong
• Can Muslims be Reached with the Gospel? Findings from Three Research Studies by Bonham, Gordon Scott (2023) - Three organizations relied primarily on other prayer networks and three on Christian researchers for prayer requests. Half of the websites gave intercessors free access to prayer requests with no option for registration. Keywords: christian; generation; making; movements; prayer; requests; survey
• Daniel J. Fleming’s Planetary Missiology for a Broken World by Santiago-Vendrell, Angel (2024) - From the beginning of his career, Fleming had a vision for world unity and world Christianity. This theme sets the precedent from which to demonstrate that Fleming’s missiology was global in its scope and a forerunner of the field of world Christianity. Keywords: christian; fleming; god; missiology; missionary; religions; self; world
• Mission and Public Issues by Jennings, J. Nelson (2024) - Especially given his recognized status as a Christian leader, as well as given the wide scope of how the Lord of Hosts uses people as part of his mission, Francis’s message is closely connected to, indeed part of, Christian mission—even if such a message is not part of Christian missions per se. A question: How might Francis’s message have been connected to Christian mission? Keywords: christian; economic; francis; lausanne; mission; movement; world
• Emojis and Visio Divina: Contextualizing the Gospel to Reach East African Youth in the Digital Sphere by Hirome, David (2024) - Other studies could also consider building on the insights from this research to create Christian contemplative digital images that feature the emojis of love, praying hands, and biceps. One participant commented, “I really don’t understand this kind of Visio Divina prayer practice.” Keywords: christian; digital; divina; emojis; god; participants; prayer; research; visio; youth
• Theories and Spectrums: What Pressures Do Parachurch Agencies Face Toward Losing Their Founding Missions? by Kombaté, Israel K. (2025) - In line with this view, one analyst notes that Christianity must reject the institutionalization of Christian faith and work that leads to the professionalization of Christian holistic mission (Takashi, 2013, 93). Abstract This article investigates seven parachurch agencies that have a holistic approach to Christian mission, specifically in order to examine how certain theories and spectrums might explain mission drift. Keywords: agencies; christian; dechristianization; drift; faith; mission; ngos; organizations; parachurch; spectrum
• Diverse Ways in which Muslim Background Believers Are Living Out I Peter 4:12-14 by Cuartas, Víctor Hugo (2025) - This article focuses on I Peter 4:12-14 and examines how Muslim background believers live out this passage. The various ways in which Muslim background believers are living out I Peter 4:12-14 during difficult trials is instructive to believers from different contexts and backgrounds. Keywords: believers; christ; christian; god; muslim; persecution; peter; suffering; trials
• Benno van den Toren and Kang-San Tan, Humble Confidence: A Model for Interfaith Apologetics by Cheong, John (2025) - [because] Western Christian apologetics is too often insufficiently contextual [and] too insufficiently Christian” (1-2). They term their approach “apologetic witness, apologetic dialogue, and holistic apologetics”; the last especially addresses “the entire person with their emotions, commitments, and attachments” (3). Keywords: apologetics; christian; god
• gme-296 by None (None) - The Deputation Organizer • Devotionals Online • Disability Resources • Discipleship Resources • Displays for Missions • Donor Software for Missionaries • Drama, Mime, Theatre Resources E • Email Listservices for Christians • Engineering Help • English Christian Video Directory • Evangelical Missions Quarterly Articles Online • Evangelism Resources • Evangelism Training and Soulwinning • Evangelistic Flash Sites and Christian Flash Sites F • Family Resources • Family Safe Internet • Fathering Resources • Filmstrip Ministry • Financial Advice for Christians • Forums for Missionaries • French Christian Video Directory • French Outreach Resources • Fundraising for Missionaries G • Gang Outreach Resources • George Patterson's Church Planting Guide • German Outreach Resources • God's Story Video/VCD for $6 • Graphic Design At Low Cost • Grief and Loss Resources H • Halloween Outreach Info and Resources • Homemakers Newsletter • House Church Resources • How to Have Great Teamwork • How to Prepare to Become a Missionary • How to Set Up a Christian Low Powered Radio Station • How to Write and Give Your Testimony I • India Christian Video Directory • Indian (American) Outreach Resources • Indonesian Outreach Resources • Insurance for Missionaries • • Bibles Online in different languages • Bible Studies online • Bible study materials - free • Bibles - places to buy • Bible Translation Resources • Books on Missions • Braille and Blind Outreach Resources • Keywords: christian; directory; missionary; outreach; resources; video
• Call for Papers for October 2026 Special Issue: "Christian Conversion and Mission" by GME Editorial Team (2025) - As Walls notes, “for it is the mark of Christian faith that it must bring Christ to the big issues closest to men’s hearts,” and it does so “through the structures by which people perceive and recognize their world,” which are not universally the same. And as Christian faith is worked out within accepted views of the world in all their diversity, “those worldviews… are transformed, yet recognizable” (130). Keywords: christian; global
• Diaspora Identities and Multi-Ethnic Churches by Parker, D. Chadwick (2025) - Namely, Christian identity, Christian community, and Christian practice all exist within racially and ethnically situated lives. History demonstrates that there is a calamitous relationship between the Church and the development of systemic racism in the West, where “the modern racializing of bodies” derives from the ways in which “Christian identity was reimagined…” as Western and “White” (Carter, 2008, p. 372). Keywords: christian; churches; communities; identities; identity; narratives; race
• Zen: A Trinitarian Critique by Smith, Ralph Allan (2010) - The early history of Zen in Japan is extremely complex, but for purposes of simplicity, it may be said that Myôan Eisai (1141-1215) was the founder of Japanese Zen. I have chosen Zen Buddhism as the particular religious philosophy to examine for two reasons. Keywords: christian; god; knowledge; philosophy; prajñã; religion; suzuki; vijñãna; zen
• CONTEXTUALIZATION AND GREAT COMMISSION FAITHFULNESS by Hildreth, Scott (2010) - The Task for Great Commission, Cross-cultural Workers As previously shown, it is vitally important to develop a properly contextualized form of Christianity which reaffirms the universal historic faith, while at the same time allowing for culturally appropriate expressions and applications of this message. Not only does obedience to the Great Commission require that the missionary not leave the development of a contextualized theology exclusively to the new church, but providing this measure of care also serves as a protection for new believers. Keywords: christian; commission; contextualization; disciples; faith; message; missionary; theology
• Review of: Globalization and the Good by Kreitzer, Mark R. (2010) - Christian social theorists, Abraham Kuyper, Herman Dooyeweerd, and several of their disciples have led the way in this (e.g., C. A. Van Til, R. J. Rushdoony, Francis Schaeffer, E. Calvin Beisner, Michael Schluter, and Chris Wright). Christian social market teaching is excellent at large principles of kindness to the poor, sick and marginalized. Keywords: bias; christian; law; schluter; society; state; world; wright
• Toward a Contextual Theology for the Chinese – A Case Study from Translation and Interpretation of the Greek Logos and Chinese Dao by Dao, John (2010) - Missionaries and theologians engaging the Chinese are attempting to cultivate an authentic exegetically based, biblically founded, and historically interpreted Chinese theology. The task of Chinese theology demands an engagement with the worldview of dao so that it becomes ‘captive’ fully to Christ, hence ‘liberated’ to become the ontological, soteriological, moral, ethical, sociological, and political center of all things. Keywords: bible; china; chinese; christian; dao; god; gospel; john; life; logos; systematic; theology; translation; way; word
• Dream Encounters in Christian and Islamic Societies and Its Implications for Christian Ministry and Mission by Cheong, John (2021) - An Introduction to the Nature of Dreams An historical overview An anthropological and sociological overview A Biblical view Figure 1: A classification dreams in the Biblical genre Dream encounters in Christian societies Christian psychologists and the dream Charismatic/Pentecostal views of the dream Dream encounters in Islamic societies Implications for Christian missions and ministry Dreams as a form of evangelism Dreams in discipleship Conclusion References An Introduction to the Nature of Dreams Dreams are commonly experienced by people in every society, but how they are perceived differs according to a person’s perspective. When Muslims dream of Jesus directing them to read the Bible, turn to the gospel (Padwick 1939:206), or find peace and comfort (Sheik 1980:52-56), they also experience cognitive dissonance in the process. Keywords: chenh; christian; contextualization; desktop; docs_html; dream%20encounters%20%20and%20implications%20for%20missions%20by%20johnk%2010.05%20context.mht!file:///c:/documents; dreamer; dreams; gm%20old%20issues; god; lih; muslim; settings
• People To Reach With Purity Of Speech by Hoover, Joseph (2010) - “For,” Harris says, “[John] 1:18 makes the same three affirmations of Jesus Christ as 1:1 does of the Logos (viz, timeless existence, intimate relationship with God, and participation in deity) and the themes of the Prologue are developed in the body of the Gospel in reference to Jesus of Nazareth” (Harris:58-59). With perhaps more exegetical support, it reveals how discussion about the relation between Jesus and God is often contaminated. Keywords: christian; context; divine; father; god; jesus; john; person; son; speech; word
• The Ritual of Reconciliation in Thai Culture: Discipling New Converts by Mejudhon, Ubolwan (2010) - This is an important duty of Thai parents, but they cannot do so as long as they feel that the church is stealing their children away. This will ease the fear and anxiety of Thai parents and help them to have a clearer view of Christians. Keywords: christian; converts; culture; joon; kamgong; new; orientation; parents; reconciliation; ritual; schreiter; thai; tid
• Spiritual Warfare: Understanding Demonization by Wan, Enoch (2010) - Unfortunately, many Christians are blinded to the fact of spiritual warfare and are deceived by Satan’s strategy of slighting the reality of his presence and power (or evil spirits). Demonic possession by evil spirits occurs among non-Christians who have not been born again and are subject to the complete control of Satan in the kingdom of darkness. Keywords: christian; demonization; spirits
• Review of The Crescent through the Eyes of the Cross by Jabbour, Nabeel (2010) - In the 1 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/1600061958/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books http://www.globalmissiology.org/ atmosphere thus generated the average layperson comes to look upon Arab Muslims and other Muslims – Iranian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indonesian – as the enemy, and finds it difficult to embrace Jesus’ command to “love your enemy; bless them who curse you.” Here in North American we are bombarded by Christian sermons, magazine articles, radio and TV programs, not to mention internet blogs, frantically declaiming the imminent clash of civilizations and the fearsome threat of “Islamo-fascism.” Keywords: christian
• The Challenge of Integration: What Role Social Science and Art Criticism? by DYRNESS, WILLIAM (2010) - Christian truth in the form of ideas are important but these are always subordinated to the embodiment of this truth in our lives and our communities, just as God himself became flesh and blood in Jesus Christ. And I wholeheartedly support the underlying missiological thrust of the conversation, since I have approached my work on theology and culture from the perspective of one whose first teaching experience was on the mission field—though I understand this work in its broadest sense, that of bringing all to the feet of Jesus and doing all to the glory of God. Keywords: christian; god; history; knowledge; philosophy; theology; truth; work; world
• THE "WEAKEST FEATURE" IN OUR WORK by Adeney, Miriam (2010) - Yet for 25 years they have stimulated the publication of original books both in Tamil and in Singhalese languages. PUBLISHING FOR THE CHRISTIAN MIND We need local books. Keywords: christian; global; god; world
• Suburban Evangelical Individualism: Syncretism, (Harvie) Conn-textualization, or Something Else? by Jennings, J. Nelson (2010) - The first time I ever heard of Harvie Conn was in the early 1980s during a conversation between two recent graduates of Westminster Theological Seminary, where Conn taught for almost three decades, from 1972 to 1999. Analysis of Contextualization and Syncretism Having just focused on Conn’s twin understandings of contextualization and syncretism, and thus having noted how and why he calls suburban evangelical individualism “syncretistic,” we must move explicitly towards directing our thoughts towards the overall theme of sharpening notions of contextualization and syncretism by seeking to answer the question posed by the title of this paper: Is Harvie Conn right in calling suburban evangelical individualism syncretistic, or is this just an idiosyncratic view of Conn’s that we might can appreciate but should basically ignore in terms of how it affects our own views, or is so-called suburban evangelical individualism something altogether different in terms of how we might classify it? Keywords: christian; city; conn; contextualization; culture; faith; harvie; individualism; syncretism; syncretistic; understanding; urban
• SOCIAL SCIENCES AND MISSION by Wan, Enoch (2010) - The indigenous principle in mission and globalization of mission will allow the churches of many lands to enter � � � 5 into partnership for world evangelization. � � � 6 Hesselgrave, David J. Planting Churches Cross-Culturally: A Guide for Homes and Foreign Missions. Keywords: christian; disciplines; mission; sciences; social
• Van Til’s Insights on the Trinity by Smith, Ralph Allan (2010) - On modernism Van Til comments, “Modernism is the happy heir of all the heresies and basic to all its heresies is the denial of the consubstantiality of the Son and the Spirit with the Father. Van Til spoke of God as “a one-conscious being” and also “a tri-conscious being. Keywords: argument; christian; doctrine; god; knowledge; man; persons; trinity; truth; van til
• gme-98 by None (None) - (MM Thomas even argues for a 'Christ-centred syncretism'.4) Even when Christians have formulated a description of Christ as an avat�ra (divine 'descent') it has, in line with the traditional assessment of Christ, usually been expressed in terms of uniqueness and historical particularity.5 Protestants writing in an Indian context have, of course, long been familiar with the problems posed by 'the scandal of particularity' in any claim that in the person and action of Jesus Christ God has overcome the otherwise relativising actions of history; they have acknowledged and sought to resolve those problems.6 The generally positive Indian Catholic appraisal of Hinduism is also tempered by some important qualifications deriving from the Christocentric nature of much of that appraisal. Barnett, Paul, ‘The Uniqueness of Christ in a Multi-faith Society’, Crux, 34.4 (December 1998), 32-40 2. Bloesch, Donald G, ‘The Finality of Christ’, chapter 10 (pp 229-49) of his Jesus Christ: Savior and Lord (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1997) 3. Brunk, George, ‘The Exclusiveness of Jesus Christ’, in New Directions in Mission and Evangelization, edited by James A Scherer and Stephen B Bevans (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1994), pp 39-54 4. Keywords: christ; christian; christocentrism; dialogue; example; god; indian; jesus; pluralism; religions; theology; uniqueness

• Review of A Word in Season: Perspectives on Christian World Mission by Jaffarian, Michael (2010) - Themes include: mission and the Holy Spirit, mission in the modern city, the cultural captivity of the Western church, the need for conversion in the West, the continuing validity of international missions, mission in a pluralist society, and what should be done in these days by the World Council of Churches, the churches of Europe, and Christian churches generally. I fear that those who would buy into this agenda would strive forever to make existing churches better, neglecting the planting of new ones, and seeing little growth, or little real progress on the frontiers of gospel advance. Keywords: world
• DISTURBANCE’ AS A NEW PARADIGM FOR MISSION: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE GLOBAL CONSULTATION OF THE WORLD EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE by Hof, Eleonora Dorothea (2013) - },citationItems:[{id:600,uris:[http://zotero.org/users/425400/items/TXWJZ2EF],uri:[http://zotero.org/users/425400/items/TXWJZ2EF]}],schema:https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json} �Wright, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative.� � � ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {citationID:8hrw3LVK,properties:{formattedCitation:{\\rtf Anton Houtepen, \\uc0\\u8220{}Mission as Learning Process,\\uc0\\u8221{} in \\i World Christianity Reconsidered: Questioning the Questions of Ecumenism and Missiology: Contributions for Bert Hoedemaker\\i0{}, ed. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.),DOI:10.1111/j.1758-6631.2011.00066.x,call-number:67510308,shortTitle:Mission's Changing Landscape,author:[{family:Kim,given:Kirsteen}],issued:{year:2011,month:11},page-first:244},locator:258}],schema:https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json} �Kirsteen Kim, “Mission’s Changing Landscape: Global Flows and Christian Movements,” International Review of Mission 100 (2011): 258.� � � ADDIN ZOTERO_TEMP ��� ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {citationID:9l57sJTx,properties:{formattedCitation:{\\rtf Inus Daneel, Charles Van Engen, and Hendrik Vroom, \\i Fullness of Life for All - Challenges for Mission in Early 21st Century\\i0{} (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003); Ogbu Kalu, Peter Vethanayagamony, and Edmund Kee-Fook Chia, eds., \\i Mission After Christendom: Emergent Themes in Contemporary Mission\\i0{} (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010); Andrew F. Walls and Akintunde E. Akinade, \\i A New Day: Essays on World Christianity in Honor of Lamin Sanneh\\i0{} (New York: Peter Lang, 2010); William R. Burrows, Mark R. Gornik, and Janice A. McLean, \\i Understanding World Christianity: The Work and Vision of Andrew F. Walls\\i0{} (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2011); Ogbu Kalu and Alaine M. Low, \\i Interpreting Contemporary Christianity: Global Processes and Local Identities\\i0{} (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008).},plainCitation:Inus Daneel, Charles Van Engen, and Hendrik Vroom, Fullness of Life for All - Challenges for Mission in Early 21st Century (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003); Ogbu Kalu, Peter Vethanayagamony, and Edmund Kee-Fook Chia, eds., Mission Keywords: christianity; citation.json; csl; disturbance; god; items; language; master; missiology; mission; new; schema; style; users/425400; world; zotero_item; � addin; � �
• 2010-2020: A ‘Decade from Heaven’ by McClung, Grant (2010) - All of that may be true on the surface, especially from the standpoint of North Americans who finally are catching up to the dismal economic realities already experienced for many decades by the “Majority World” (A term used by “New Internationalist” magazine to refer to Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean). Here is one report from an eyewitness to the recent Urbana 2009 Student Mission Convention where more than 16,000 students from 100+ countries came together to consider their place in God’s work in the world: “Many Inter-Varsity staff who have been to Urbanas for decades have said this is the most spiritually hungry group of Urbana students they’ve ever seen. Keywords: decade; god; world
• I PREFER THINGS THE WAY THEY USED TO BE by Stewart, James (2010) - We are, indeed, a world leader in many significant arenas including the development of many dominant technologies. How will new technologies change the way we do ministry? Keywords: internet; ministry; technology; way; world
• Conflict Paradigm for Theology of Religions by Wan, Enoch; Wang, Samuel (2016) - It seeks to tackle the pressing challenges of world religions on Christianity in the framework of the cosmic conflict paradigm. The issue of religious pluralism of world religions will be a temporary one, for non-biblical religions will come to an end when the cosmic conflict ends. Keywords: bible; christ; conflict; god; jesus; new; paradigm; religion; salvation; world
• ESSENTIALISM AND ISLAM by Anonymous, TWO (2017) - The ideological commitment to non-essentialism so rampant in our universities today can only cover up the reality of “essential Islam” for so long. Sufism is based on a concept utterly foreign to essential Islam, the immanence of God. Keywords: christianity; essence; essentialist; islam; muhammad; muslim; world
• Leadership Journals on the Internet - Free Full Text Journals Listings by Jaeger, John (2010) - Journal of online education http://innovateonline.info/ International journal of digital contents http://www.formatex.org/jdc/jdc.htm International Journal of Education and Development using ICT http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu//index.php International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrod Journal of Digital Information http://journals.tdl.org/index.php/jodi 42 Journal of distance education / Revue de l'enseignement à distance. http://www.cah.ucf.edu/philosophy/fpr/highend/index.php Human Quest http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3861 Humanist http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1374 Hyle: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry http://www.hyle.org Idealistic Review http://www.nlx.com/Journals/ids.htm Indo-Pacific journal of phenomenology. Keywords: african; american; american journal; analysis; archaeology; arts; asian; association; biology; bulletin; business; canadian; chemistry; college; communication; computer; contemporary; culture; current; design; development; distance; east; economics; education; education journal; education research; electronic; english; ethics; european; european journal; film; forum; health; history; human; information; information technology; interdisciplinary; international; international journal; internet journal; issues; journal; knowledge; language; law; law journal; leadership; learning; libraries; library; literature; magazine; management; management journal; mathematics; media; music; newsletter; nursing; online; online journal; papers; philosophy; physics; policy; politics; practice; psychology; quarterly; religion; report; research; research journal; review; rights; school; science; science education; social; society; statistics; studies; studies journal; systems; teaching; technology; theory; today; university; working; world
• An Outsider Perspective of the Human Predicament in Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism - by Wanjiru M. Gitau by Gitau - Author, "Megachurch Christianity Reconsidered" (IVP 2018); GM-E Ed Team Mbr, Wanjiru M. (2018) - In Islam, humanity’s core problem is separation from Allah, resulting in Allah’s displeasure and possibility of judgment on the final day. Balance is established by a healthy fear of Allah. Keywords: allah; buddhism; god; hinduism; human; islam; kamma; kin; life; loc; qur’an; religions; samsara; world
• Finding Our Balance by Stewart, Jim (2010) - A few decades before he would not have survived, but technology helped to bring him home to us. In 1977, a triple bypass – a brand new operation that had been made possible by recent advances in technology – gave him back to us when the Vineberg failed. Keywords: balance; new; technology; world
• God's Work Among, and Through, Immigrants and Refugees in Korea - by J. Nelson Jennings by Jennings - Onnuri Church: Mission Pastor, Consultant, Int'l Liaison; GME - Editor, J. Nelson (2019) - In a corresponding way, South Korean Christians have had a special place in their hearts for North Korean refugees and defectors, especially given the many separated families since the early 1950s. God is also using the presence of more foreigners in South Korea to challenge Korean Christians to grow in various ways. Keywords: christians; churches; god; immigrants; korea; ministries; refugees; south; u.s; uganda; world
• Rethinking the Great Commission for the African Context: A Proposal for the Paradigm of Relational Missiology (Part II) - by Enoch Wan by Wan - GM Founder; EMS Past Pres; Western Seminary Intercultural Studies Prof, DEd Director, Enoch (2019) - A listening church: Autonomy and communion in African churches. This article thus seeks to engage African mission leaders in rethinking the Great Commission for the African context. Keywords: april; context; god; human; july; missiology; paradigm; realism; truth; wan; world
• Holistic ministry/missions: reflections & resource material by Wan, Enoch (2010) - The following definition is proposed, based on the author’s assumptions that there is an ontological reality that requires interdisciplinary approach to epistemologically understanding the complexity involved: Holistic ministry/missions” is understood to be “Christians motivated by their love for God and neighbors (within or without one’s socio-cultural context) , mobilized to be engaged in multi-dimensional services to HIM by serving others inclusively caring for the spiritual, psychological, social, physical, etc. JOHN DE GUCHY BY GLOBAL MISSIOLOGY on May 5, 2004 #2 - THEORETICAL FRAME WORK – ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION #3 - PRACTICAL FRAMWORK – AIDS CRISIS HELPFUL RESOURCES FOR “HOLISTIC MINISTRY/MISSIONS” INTRODUCTION This paper begins with a proposed definition of “holistic ministry/missions,” followed by reflections in the form of reviewing three selected publications, and concluded by listing some helpful resources of publications and websites. Keywords: aids; book; god; holistic; messer; ministry; missions; reconciliation; world
• Guest Editorial: Perplexed, Amazed, Inspired, and Challenged - by Wanjiru M. Gitau by Gitau - Author, "Megachurch Christianity Reconsidered" (IVP 2018); GM-E Ed Team Mbr, Wanjiru M. (2019) - And according to Paul, We are God’s handiwork (or masterpiece), created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do; (Ephesians 2:10). Similarly, these essays call us to see that God’s work through his Spirit in contemporary times is nothing short of amazing and surprising, particularly against a background of the limitations that could have hindered God’s work. Keywords: god; psalm; world
• The Future of Evangelism and Missions in a Flat World - by Ed Alden by Alden - International Mission Board (IMB), Ed (2020) - “Gibson's movie unlikely box-office hit in Arab world” Christian Science Monitor website, https://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0409/p01s02-wome.html (accessed January 8, 2020). English is commonly spoken across many countries and is the official trade language in 61 countries (Switz and Lessard-Clouston 2015). Keywords: english; friedman; impact; media; missions; new; online; technology; world
• Guest Editorial: The New Generation and Missions - by Ruslan Zagidulin by Zagidulin - One Hope; GME Ed Team Mbr, Ruslan (2020) - A more constructive approach involves seeing how new technologies have changed, and continue to change, the new generation’s social behavior and even worldview. Currently, almost the whole world is locked down and facing new realities because of COVID-19. Keywords: generation; world
• Dr. Ralph Winter by Thomas, TV (2010) - Every time I would meet with Dr. Ralph Winter in public gatherings or personal interactions I have been positively impressed by him. As a catalytic missiologist, brilliant strategist, pioneering entrepreneur, global networker and tireless mobilizer, Dr. Winter was truly a giant among us! Keywords: world
• Book Review: Todd M. Johnson and Gina A. Zurlo, World Christian Encyclopedia, Third Edition by Mugambi, Kyama M. (2020) - The emergence of native missiologists and World Christianity scholars and researchers since the late 1990s affords the possibility of more representation of the Global South on the list of collaborators and contributors. Its launch comes at a time when World Christianity has grown to be an important field of study in many universities around the world. Keywords: christianity; country; data; global; world
• A Hybrid World: Diaspora, Hybridity, and Missio Dei by Wang, Juno (2020) - With limited space to cover all 17 chapters, this review summarizes the book’s contents based on the opportunities, challenges, and missiological implications for hybrid missions. Opportunities. Christians can share the eternal hope we have for spiritual harmony and thus train and mobilize intermarriage Christian couples for hybrid missions. Keywords: god; hybrid; hybridity; missions; world
• Indigenous People’s Wisdom and the Church’s Mission of Caring for the Earth: Towards Integral Ecology by Sawit, Chito M. (2021) - Indigenous peoples are connected through their close relationships in their clan, and they are people whose underlying organizational principle is a social relationship among family, clan, band, tribe, or other structures, rather than the religion or sacred belief system to which they subscribe (Palmer and Burgess 2012). Key Words: care for the earth, indigenous peoples, integral ecology, mission, wisdom Introduction The world, together with humanity, is facing destruction. Keywords: earth; ecology; francis; home; life; peoples; world
• ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD: DREAM OR DELUSION? by Stewart, Jim (2010) - � A wireless networking capability that automatically detects other laptops within range and connects them into a “mesh network” for communication and resource sharing. What they have done technologically is already changing the way laptops and computer systems are conceived and built. Keywords: children; computer; laptop; olpc; world
• Christian Recessions and Declines: What Might We Learn from Them? by Jennings, J. Nelson (2024) - Realizing the fuller scope of recessions and contextual transitions throughout Christian mission history can cultivate a more complete, more accurate, and arguably more biblical understanding of God’s redemptive mission. Hence Christian missions, which are Christians’ efforts to participate in God’s all-encompassing mission, are to be comprehensive as well. Keywords: christianity; god; history; latourette; world
• Specific Service Rather Than Vague Religious Sentiment by Jennings, J. Nelson (2025) - 2 Editorial Specific Service Rather Than Vague Religious Sentiment J. Nelson Jennings Published in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, January 2025 Following Jesus Christ involves nitty-gritty, everyday living. Two obvious caveats: (1) Following Jesus Christ cannot be reduced to concrete, tangible, this-worldly realities: the Creator-Redeemer, triune God is beyond “nitty-gritty, everyday” affairs; unseen, spiritual forces are real; Christians—consciously or not—interrelate with transcendent and other-worldly beings. Keywords: god; jesus; world
• The Forgotten Jesus and the Trinity You Never Knew by So, Damon W (2010) - The End of the Journey 8 The Resurrection of Jesus and a New Beginning Chapter 6: The Trinity, The Kingdom Of God And Human Society 1 Jesus' Own Rest in His Father and His Revelation of His Father 2 Jesus and the Holy Spirit 3 The Mystery of the Trinity 4 The Divinity and Humanity of Jesus Christ 5 Meditation on the Lord Jesus Christ 6 The Trinity, the Church and Human Society 6.1 Freedom and Moral Reference 6.2 Freedom from Self-Interest 6.3 Freedom for the Poor 6.4 Freedom from Structural Evils 6.5 Freedom from Conflicts: Reconciliation 6.6 Trinity and Human Society 6.7 Trinity, Church and Mission in the World 7 Conclusions Appendix A: Meditation on Jesus' Lordship and Servanthood Appendix B: Jesus Suffers With Us Appendix C: Holiness and Love Appendix D: He Did Not Turn Back Appendix E: He Lives-He Rose from the Dead The Forgotten Jesus and the Trinity You Never Knew (Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2010), 254 pages by Damon W.K. ‘Jesus É the window for us to look into the TrinityÉ’ (p. 231) See commendations on second page, table of contents on third page, and a �meditation from the fourth page. Keywords: father; god; jesus; life; spirit; world
• Reconsidering Our Basic Assumptions In a Global Context by Stewart, Jim (2010) - For example, Athabasca University, Canada’s largest provider of distance education programs has served the needs of hundreds of thousands of students since 1970, long before distance education was, if not embraced, then at least acknowledged to exist by much of American academia. Today, it is unlikely that you will find a map that presents the United States at the center of our world. Keywords: broadband; education; states; united; world
• BRIDGING THE “EXCLUDED MIDDLE”: THE CASE OF BRAZILIAN EVANGELICAL MISSIONARIES SERVING AMONG ARAB-MUSLIMS by Smither, Edward L (2010) - In an extended discussion on power, Love asserts that Muslims perceive spiritual power on a number of levels. A similar worldview and subsequent willingness to engage in spiritual warfare is apparent in the following account from a female Pentecostal missionary in the Arab world. Keywords: arab; brazilian; folk; god; islam; magic; muslims; power; religion; spiritism; spiritual; umbanda; world; worldview; � interview
• The One-Many God and Team Ministry by Sherwood, John (2010) - Yet theologically and experientially, I have learned so much about the Community called God through rich relationships with brothers and sisters also part of that same Community. Relationship is at the essence of who God is. Keywords: father; glory; god; jesus; joy; love; ministry; oneness; relationship; team; trinity; unity; world
• Are God & Allah the same? by Arab Christian, Anonymous (2010) - 1 Are God & Allah the same? Is Allah just another name for God? Keywords: allah; christians; correctness; creator; god; jesus; muslims; world; worship
• The Trinitarian Covenant in John 17 by Smith, Ralph Allan (2010) - John presents Jesus as sent by the Father into the world (3:17, 34; 5:36, 38; 6:29, 57; 7:29; 8:42; 10:36; 11:432) to speak specific words (3:34; 12:49; 14:10, 24; and do a specific work (4:34; 5:17, 20, 36; 9:4; 10:25, 32, 37, 38; 14:11, 12) for which He is rewarded (6:37-39; 17:2), which is to say that John has described Jesus' mission as including all the distinctive elements of a covenant in a context that is pregnant with covenantal language. Fifth, Jesus implies that His indwelling the Church brings about increased covenantal unity over time (that they may be perfected in one, 23). Keywords: covenant; father; god; jesus; john; unity; world
• Notes on Managerial Missiology ... and on Envying Corporate CEOs by Jaffarian, Michael (2010) - If God calls someone to leadership in the cause of world missions, it’s a terrible sin to envy another vocation. It may be that mission CEOs sometimes envy corporate CEOs. Keywords: god; mission; world
• gme-94 by None (None) - Gailyn Van Rheenen’s discussion of why folk religion is growing rapidly in postmodern and post-Christian America is timely. The primary focus of folk religion in that region has always been man centered, with a great emphasis upon health, prosperity, honor, and progeny. Keywords: movements; religion; world

• THE GOSPEL AS STORY AND EVANGELISM AS STORY TELLING by Robinson, George G. (2012) - Through the arrival of Jesus of Nazareth, God was bringing in the promised new era of salvation for Israel and for the world, because through Jesus God would deal with sin.” The Mission of God THE GOSPEL AS STORY AND EVANGELISM AS STORY TELLING George G. Robinson, D.Miss. Keywords: christ; creation; cross; earth; god; gospel; grand; jesus; mission; narrative; story
• From Theory to Practice in Vulnerable Mission: an academic appraisal by Reeves, Tim (2012) - Given these subtleties it seems that we are not easily going to get to the root of African ideas about God without the use of African language; for without that language who knows what nuances are going to be lost in translation. The trouble is we have been somewhat mislead by the superficial similarity between the logical use of language such as we see in see in propositional logic and the highly open ended, very flexible and fuzzy nature of natural language. Keywords: african; chapter; language; mission
• gme-1094 by None (None) - In the innovative spirit that is Betty Sue, we offer you this tribute to honor the life and on-going contributions of Dr. Betty Sue Brewster. Thus our challenge became, what kind of project would be a fitting tribute and capture the essence of Dr. Betty Sue Brewster? Keywords: betty; green; life; mission; sue
• Technology & Trends in Missions: An Editorial Introduction by Robinson, George G. (2013) - Consider the fact that non-residential missions of the “facilitator” variety, as well as short-term international missions opportunities, were unheard of prior to advances in air travel. Some trends that were embraced widely embraced have proven to be counterproductive (think Crusades); while other trends that were resisted by the Church, at least in part, have led to an explosive gospel advance (think Gutenberg Bible). Keywords: mission; trends
• READING ROMANS MISSIOLOGICALLY by Barcley, William B. (2010) - Reading Romans Missiologically, William B. Barclay, 1999 Published at www.GlobalMissiology.org in 2003 3 On the other hand, there are, it seems to me, insurmountable problems with this view: a. Paul never explicitly addresses a problem of division. ”24 Dunn argues that, in addition to apologetic and pastoral purposes, a Reading Romans Missiologically, William B. Barclay, 1999 Published at www.GlobalMissiology.org in 2003 5 missiological purpose is central to understand Paul’s reason for writing Romans.25 And Moo writes that the various purposes of Paul for writing Romans share a common denominator, namely, Paul’s missionary situation.26 Keywords: gentiles; god; gospel; jews; letter; mission; paul; reading; romans; rome
• Towards a Theology of Relational Mission Training - An Application of the Relational Paradigm Enoch Wan and Tin V. Nguyen by Wan, Enoch; Nguyen, Tin V. (2013) - In this paper, a theology for relational mission training is proposed. Conclusion In this paper, a theology for relational mission training is proposed. Keywords: god; mission; paul; relationship; spiritual; timothy; training
• The Legacy of the Apostle Paul to Apostolic Faith and Mission Today by Hesselgrave, David (2013) - For example, in his classic Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours? (Eerdmans), Roland Allen compares the methods of Paul with the missionary methods of his day (early 20th century) and finds Paul’s to be superior. But Jesus’ mission was different than Paul’s and ours as well. Keywords: mission; paul
• A Visionary Missionary by Olatoyan, Isaiah O. (2014) - See Louis M. Duval, Baptist Missions in Nigeria (Richmond, VA: Education Department Foreign Mission Board of Southern Baptist Convention, 1928), 110. Education Department Foreign Mission Board Southern Baptist Convention, 1928), 157. Keywords: baptist; mission; nigeria; smith; southern; work
• gme-1820 by None (None) - My experience was that, unless women were out shopping, they were typically in their respective homes with other women. Once we arrived in Germany, God used a relationship I established with another mom to force me to examine my heart and subsequently shape the way I would look at other women who needed Christ. Keywords: children; god; mission; women
• Observations on: The Mission Bible Commentary: The Gospel According to Luke & The Acts of the Apostles by Paul Bruns by Wan, Enoch (2017) - Inductively, the author engaged in an intensive inductive study of the texts of Luke-Act by a mission-focused perspective to produce a list of mission principles in two categories: mission messages (MM) and mission imperative (MI). Hence the following schema became a helpful tool to organize comments throughout the volume: NAME LABEL DEFINITION · mission messages MM Mission Messages that Christians proclaim · mission imperative M Keywords: mission
• Vulnerable Mission Conference Summary - by John A. Macdonald by Macdonald - Trinity School for Ministry; jmacdonald@tsm.edu, (The Rev. Canon Dr.) John A. (2018) - · That you will be able to explain how an understanding and use of worldview/culture may facilitate a better understanding and practice of vulnerable mission. That [everyone] will come up with ideas or suggestions for how talking about worldview/culture with a wider audience may draw their attention to and generate interest in vulnerable mission. Keywords: language; mission; missionary; patron
• Six Theses on the Future of Vulnerable Mission - by Stan Nussbaum by Nussbaum - www.syncx.org; stannussbaum@gmail.com, Stan (2018) - Will VM practitioners in other contexts than western Kenya will join the discussion and help elaborate VM thinking in their settings? 2. April 2018 Abstract There is increasing interest in the message of Vulnerable Mission (VM), but a sizable group has yet to gather at a conference or become involved in an ongoing way in the VM Alliance. Keywords: future; mission
• Book Introduction and Summary: "제4 선교신학 - The 4th Mission Theology" - by Paul Seung-Oh An by Seung-Oh An - Professor of Missiology, Youngnam Theological University and Seminary, Paul (2018) - In the case of 2nd mission theology it tends to view the subjects not only as the church but also many other worldly institutions. Due to these conflicts, as a way of solution, a new mission paradigm, holistic mission theology (the 3rd Mission Theology Paradigm), appeared. Keywords: mission; mission theology; theology
• Narrative and Mission Praxis: The Roma in Europe - by Melody J. Wachsmuth by Wachsmuth - researcher/writer in Croatia from 2011; PhD stud't Oxford Ctr for Miss Studies, Melody J. (2018) - In addition, although Christianity has been spreading through Roma communities for decades – the most prominent form being Pentecostalism – that growth is a profoundly under-researched topic of study (Thurfjell and Marsh 2014). Christianity among the Roma in Eastern Europe also was present in Roma communities earlier in the twentieth century, with Pentecostalism spreading rapidly in Bulgaria, Romania, and Central Europe after the fall of Communism. Keywords: europe; mission; narrative; roma; romani
• gme-222 by None (None) - Ralph is survived by his wife, Barbara; by his and Roberta's four daughters (all of whom are active in Christian mission), Elizabeth Gill (Brad), Rebecca Lewis (Tim), Linda Dorr (Darrell) and Patricia Johnson (Todd); by 14 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. Along with the development of 17 small businesses for bi-vocational pastoral students, Ralph joined others to begin an innovative, non-residential approach to theological studies known as Theological Education by Extension (TEE), which has since been reproduced in countless mission contexts around the world. Keywords: mission; ralph; winter
• Transforming Analytical Paradigms - by J. Nelson Jennings by Jennings - GME: Editor; Onnuri Church: Mission Pastor, Consultant, International Liaison, J. Nelson (2019) - Hence many contemporary understandings and practices of Christian mission are qualitatively different from, rather than cumulatively resting upon, previous frameworks or paradigms of mission. Just as David Bosch almost 30 years ago saw Christian mission being transformed, and accordingly discerned a pattern of such transformations throughout history, so are various mission analysts today discerning new paradigms for how to analyze what has happened, what is happening, and what should be happening. Keywords: mission
• A Personal Reflection on the Legacy of Ralph Winter by Effa, Allan (2010) - Microsoft Word - Allen Effa_Tribute.doc A Personal Reflection on the Legacy of Ralph Winter My personal encounters with Ralph Winter over the past twenty years have been short and infrequent, but never casual. Keywords: mission; ralph
• Gethsemane and Beyond: Mission Disruption as Mission Advancement - by Stan Nussbaum by Nussbaum - Missiologist; Innovator at SYNCx.org, Stan (2020) - Abstract The current disruption of mission activities and structures by COVID-19 is comparable in many ways to Gethsemane, where Jesus faced massive disruption of his normal mission activities of proclaiming the kingdom, healing, and training the disciples. We may celebrate it with the additional knowledge that COVID-19, the biggest disrupter of mission activity in our lifetime, may also turn out to be the biggest boost we and our mission have ever had! Keywords: activities; crisis; gethsemane; identity; jesus; missiology; mission; mode; planning; strategy
• Crisis as Kairos: Our Samaria Right Next Door? Acting on Crisis to Minister to Our Native Neighbors by Beine, Dave (2020) - “Statement For the Record of Carol Evans Chairwoman, Spokane Tribe of Indians.” “Spokane Tribe launches ‘Children of the Sun’ solar initiative, with long-range plans for energy independence” Spokesman Review August 28. Keywords: american; crisis; culture; dam; dominant; mission; neighbors; reservation; spokane; spokane tribe; tribal; tribe; white
• Missiology as Leaven by Jennings, J. Nelson (2021) - These concerns notwithstanding, the study of God’s mission and of Christian missions - missiology - necessarily spreads into all arenas of God’s worldwide, world-penetrating kingdom presence and activity. The authors probe a kaleidoscope of topics, thus collectively exploring a striking array of kingdom arenas. Keywords: missiology; mission
• Keep the Embers Alive by Gitau, Wanjiru M. (2021) - While we appreciate Oliveira’s affirmation that reverse mission is a reality, we need to resist the temptation to think of mission in the same terms in which it was carried and conducted across the Global South. We are at a point where the future of Christian mission invites serious thinkers to do the deep work of reflection about the current state of our world, the status of the unfinished task of sharing the gospel, and what we as mission agents must do in our time. Keywords: fire; mission
• Advanced Missiology: How to Study Missions in Credible and Useful Ways by Law, Samuel K. (2021) - In Advanced Missiology: How to Study Missions in Credible and Useful Ways, Kenneth Nehrbass adds a significant contribution to the field of missiology. In introducing Advanced Missiology, Nehrbass recognizes the increasingly complex nature of missiology, targeting the twin needs for an interdisciplinary approach and to address the disconnect between theory and practice. Keywords: book; disciplines; missiology; mission; nehrbass
• Review of "MISSION HANDBOOK 2007-2009: U.S. AND CANADIAN PROTESTANT MINISTRIES OVERSEAS (20TH EDITION)" by Jaffarian, Michael (2010) - On that, with the North American missions movement there is a big problem: mission agencies change their names a lot. In the back is a nine-page Bibliography of Resources, which includes a directory of Web-based mission directories, “Ministry Resource Links” (only 3 – why so few?), a tiny selection of missions books, a good list of journals and newsletters, and then a list of general reference works. Keywords: american; countries; edition; handbook; mission; north
• The Life and Ministry of Erlo Hartwig Stegen by Fleischmann, Elfrieda M.-L.; Ferreira, Ignatius W. (2021) - The Ministry of Erlo Stegen Whereas Louis Harms was a preacher doing mission work, Stegen was a missionary who also became a preacher after he established the KwaSizabantu Mission in the heartland of what is now South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province in 1970. This article provides insight into the missionary role that Erlo Stegen played both during and after the South African Apartheid dispensation, focusing on his missiological context, style, principles, and legacy. Keywords: apartheid; erlo; fleischmann; god; harms; kwasizabantu; mission; revival; south; stegen
• gme-26 by None (None) - Quoted below is a recent statement from the Rev. Jerry Rankin, President of the International Mission Board: “We have a number of documents but are in the process of changing our vision and mission as well as stated core values. FORMULATING YOUR OWN STATEMENTS OF MISSION, VISION AND CORE VALUES In response to the changing socio-cultural context of the 21st Century, all mission organizations and Christian denominations are to formulate their own statements of mission, vision, core values, and strategic goals accordingly. Keywords: context; core; figure; god; mission; scriptural; values
• Vulnerability vs. Corinthian Values: Modern Ministry Thought and Practice at Home and Abroad by Sadowitz, Chris (2022) - Theologia Crucis invites us into the arena of ministry weakness, including suffering with, not suffering for. Also, conforming to the cross means we can treat as insignificant what our cultures value in terms of conducting gospel ministry. Keywords: christ; cross; god; ministry; mission; paul; values; vulnerability; weakness
• Trinity and Mission by GM, Editor at (2010) - Microsoft Word - Trinity and Mission.doc 1 Trinity and Mission Editor’s note In 2006, The “Global Connections Conference” was held on the theme – “The role of the Godhead - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - in mission” The outstanding papers have been categorized by the Editor of Global Missiology for listing in the April 1 2007 issue of www.globalmissiology.org with permission granted by Vicky Calver, Strategic Development Manager of “Global Connections” A conference designed to explore the Trinity and mission A timely reminder of the importance of having an adequate theological basis for mission and a great opportunity to be updated on trends and developments in mission practice. Uel Marrs, Presbyterian Church in Ireland This Global Connections conference explored who God is - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - and how this understanding shapes what we do in mission. Keywords: mission
• Getting Ahead of the Spirit? The Techniques of Contemporary Mission Movements by Span, John (2022) - What Is CAMEL? CAMEL is an acronym composed of C (chosen), A (announced by angels), M (miracles), and EL (everlasting life). Keywords: camel; garrison; god; holy; jesus; method; mission; movements; muslims; spirit
• Editorial - "The Duty of Discrimination" by Jennings, J. Nelson (2023) - How does faithfulness in mission service connect to how Moses and the Israelites were to construct the tabernacle “exactly” as God instructed? However we might enthusiastically, creatively, and faithfully work through our particular avenues of mission service, may God continue to guide us in our necessary exercise of “the duty of discrimination.” Keywords: exodus; god; mission; moses; tabernacle
• Multi-directional mission sending: Exploring the involvement of different cultures and nations in sending mission partners by Staff, GM (2010) - External Websites • Welcome Project - welcoming mission workers to Europe Downloads • A Missionary Paradigm of Partnership between the North and the South (English Version) (19kb) • A Missionary Paradigm of Partnership between the North and the South (Spanish Version) (21kb) • Preparing and Supporting Latin Americans in Mission (111kb) • One World ...Or Else - Personnel: the globalisation of mission and the needs of New Sending Countries - a case study of Korea (13kb) Published in the special issue “A Memoriam of Paul G. Hiebert” www.globalmissiology.org April 1, 2007 Exploring the involvement of different cultures and nations in sending mission partners Editor’s note: It is almost trendy nowadays to talk about networking and partnership. Keywords: mission
• Review of "The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative" by Christopher J. H. Wright by Kruse, Michael (2010) - • I may wonder what kind of mission God has for me, when I should ask what kind of me God wants for his mission. (533-534) The book really is a wonder travelogue through the narrative God has given us in the Bible. Keywords: god; mission
• Missional Narrative and Missional Hermeneutic for the 21st Century by Wan, Enoch; Heibert, Paul (2010) - • I may wonder what kind of mission God has for me, when I should ask what kind of me God wants for his mission. The book really is a wonder travelogue through the narrative God has given us in the Bible. Keywords: god; mission
• Free IBMR Offer by Staff, GM (2010) - -Italic /Tunga-Regular /TwCenMT-Bold /TwCenMT-BoldItalic /TwCenMT-Condensed /TwCenMT-CondensedBold /TwCenMT-CondensedExtraBold /TwCenMT-Italic /TwCenMT-Regular /Verdana -BoldItalic /BookAntiqua-Italic /BookmanOldStyle /BookmanOldStyle-Bold /BookmanOldStyle-BoldItalic /BookmanOldStyle-Italic /BookshelfSymbolSeven /BradleyHandITC /BritannicBold Keywords: /franklingothic; bolditalic; italic; mission; regular; research
• Collaborative Leadership by Handley, Jr., Joseph W. (2024) - Rooted in participative leadership theories, collaborative leadership emphasizes teamwork and shared decision-making. Drawing insights from biblical foundations, modern management theories, and the author’s thesis on polycentric leadership, this article highlights the relevance and practical applications of collaborative leadership. Keywords: challenges; collaboration; diversity; japan; leadership; mission; team
• The Honor-Shame Conversation in Evangelical Missiology: Past, Present, and Future by Flanders, Chris (2025) - For example, a search on the research website academia.com for “honor shame culture” yields 6,454 followers of that topic, while an “honor shame missions” search shows 21,370 full text papers. Abstract The concepts of honor and shame, once peripheral to evangelical missiology, have become pivotal in mission practice, cross-cultural theology, and biblical interpretation. Keywords: conversation; cultures; evangelical; face; global; guilt; honor; issues; missiology; mission; shame; theology
• Abeneazer G. Urga, Jessica A. Udall, and Edward L. Smither, eds., Reading 1 Peter Missiologically: The Missionary Motive, Message and Methods of 1 Peter by Jennings, J. Nelson (2025) - Bible teachers, mission scholars, theology/missiology students, and mission practitioners can all benefit, with thanksgiving, Reading 1 Peter Missiologically and its companion volumes. As with the Hebrews volume, the chapters in Reading 1 Peter Missiologically are divided into three sections, the titles of which are spelled out in each book’s subtitle: The Missionary Motive, Message and Methods of 1 Peter (or Hebrews). Keywords: mission; peter
• Joseph W. Handley, Jr., Polycentric Mission Leadership: Toward a New Theoretical Model for Global Leadership by Ma, Tianji (2025) - Handley’s work seeks to equip readers with a fresh framework that resonates with the complexities of global mission leadership today. Handley identifies these contributions as critical stepping stones towards a new theoretical model for mission leadership. Keywords: handley; leadership; mission
• William D Taylor, Leading from Below: Lessons from the Crucible of Global Mission by Manokaran, J. N. (2025) - There were four categories of missions: Go, Pray, Give, Send.  Hagiographies of Biographies? “Tough, robust, true stuff continues to motivate people who are called to cross-cultural mission. (30) Then God orchestrated that he landed in a new role in global missions.  Keywords: author; cross; global; god; leaders; mission
• Hustler-Ecclesial Missionaries: Hybrid Identities of Kenyan Anglican Clergy in the U.S. by Hirome, David (2025) - This article argues that the missional success of African Anglican clergy ministering in the US is linked to their ability develop and negotiate hybrid identities during their period of ministry in the country. These implications challenge traditional paradigms of mission, ecclesial identity, and theological engagement, offering new insights into how mission is practiced and embodied in migratory contexts. Keywords: african; anglican; clergy; context; diaspora; ecclesial; ministry; mission; participants
• Living the Tension: Toward a Theologically Reflexive Methodology for Diaspora Missiology by Philip, Jose (2025) - This congregation, like many diaspora churches, lives at the intersection of two worlds—bearing the theological heritage of their sending cultures while immersed in the pluralistic, secularizing, and religiously fragmented landscape of their host society. By integrating epistemology, formation, and mission, the Living in Tension framework equips diaspora churches for faithful gospel witness through apologetics, evangelism, discipleship, and spiritual formation, maintaining critical awareness of epistemic and cultural location while remaining rooted in divine self-revelation. Keywords: berger; churches; diaspora; hiebert; missiology; mission; plausibility; realism; theology; willard

• Matthean missiology: messianic messenger authority, and the great commission by Chung, Michael (2012) - � Nolland Matthew p.383. � Osborne Matthew p.328. Keywords: authority; christ; commission; disciples; god; gospel; great; jesus; mark; matthew; teaching; writes
• Jesus Christ – Views from Multiple Cultural Lenses by Hesselgrave, David (2013) - Set up a template formatted like this one (or request on on a diskette or CD) PAGE 1 MISSIOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS OF DAVID HESSELGRAVE Jesus Christ – Views from Multiple Cultural Lenses David Hesselgrave Published in www.GlobalMissiology.org Jan 2013 It seems that there has always been more than one view of the story of Jesus. If and when you come to see who Jesus Christ really was and is, the virgin birth will not be a problem for you.” Keywords: jesus; virgin
• gme-138 by None (None) - And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made. SOME PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS God is one! Keywords: christ; father; god; holy; holy spirit; jesus; persons; son; spirit; trinity
• Are You a Christian or a Disciple? by Pieters, Pastor Matt (2014) - Rather than shy away from the challenges of biblical discipleship as defined by Jesus, Gross acknowledges the challenges head on in a way that gets at the heart of the issues: following the real Jesus not our imagination, Jesus’ way of evangelism to “make disciples,” embracing Jesus’ “hard” words to follow him, obey, and turn in repentance, not being merely shallow converts. In this gem of a book Gross unpacks for us what Jesus’ call to follow him as disciple means and how, if we are to truly follow Jesus, we must walk down the same path he walked. Keywords: jesus
• The Ethics of Silence in Witness to Muslims by Greenham, Ant (2014) - Islam is focused on God’s oneness to the extent it regards any association with God, including associating the Lord Jesus Christ with him, as the unforgivable sin.[footnoteRef:16] It rejects God’s supreme work of taking on flesh that he might take us to be with him. Perhaps another approach, whereby one focuses on Jesus Christ and one’s new identity in him, while practicing a selected and judicious silence on Islam, is better. Keywords: christ; god; islam; islamic; issues; jesus; muhammad; muslims; new; qur’an
• RELATIONAL REFLECTION ON “THE PARADOX OF CHANGE AND RELEVANCE”, Part I of 2 by Ho, Pseudonym, Lee-Chow (2010) - Jesus´ next statement “You will be called Peter” – taken to the next level of truth. Our third relational reflection is as follows: If we are to live with the tough tensions of the paradox of change and relevance then our view of truth needs to be re-evaluated and measured against the full stature of Christ who is the way, the truth (Alethia) and the life. Keywords: jesus; truth
• Indigenous Perspectives On Muslim Identity And Insider Movements by Farrokh, Fred (2015) - A number of the Insider Muslim leaders promote their movements from within Islamic mosques. Fourth, I provide indigenous input on Muslim identity. Keywords: christ; community; god; identity; insider; islamic; jesus; mosque; movements; muhammad; muslim; qur’an; word
• Grounding Disciple-making in God’s Creation Order: Filling the Earth with the Image of God by Robinson, George G. (2015) - The blood bought image bearers from all nations fill the earth with their worship for Christ and exercise dominion to bring about flourishing as God intended in the beginning. As the offspring of fractured image bearers, all of humanity is cursed with a bent toward misdirecting our worship away from God and toward creation and ultimately ourselves (Romans 5:12). Keywords: creation; genesis; god; image; jesus; man; woman; worship
• Critical Review of Bill Clem’s “Disciple” by Wohlgemuth, John (2015) - We were created to glorify God and we best glorify him by reflecting his image to him, to other disciples, and to the world. Thus, the way Jesus lived in imaging God reveals the way disciples should live in imaging God. Keywords: clem; disciple; god; image; jesus
• Equipping and Coaching Across the No Place Left Coalition by Wood, Chuck; Cox, Carter (2016) - Training - Training is primarily focused on equipping disciples with vision, process, and tools to see the kingdom come. This has lead to generations of healthy disciples and churches. Keywords: coaching; disciples; jesus; process; training
• Insider Jesus: Theological Reflections on New Christian Movements by Farah, Warrick (2017) - If Dyrness conflates religion and culture (and I think he comes close), then Coleman does the same with religion and idolatry.[footnoteRef:3] I would argue for more nuance than both Coleman and Dyrness offer- a way that draws some distinction between religion and culture, but which also recognizes that not all contextual aspects of non-Christian religions are necessarily idolatrous. 1 Review Insider Jesus: Theological Reflections on New Christian Movements William A. Dyrness Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2016 Reviewed by Warrick Farah, DMiss Missiologist, International Teams (www.iteams.us) Published in www.GlobalMissiology.org, Oct. 2017 Until now, the Insider Movement (IM) has lacked a sustained, in-depth theological justification- Insider Jesus: Theological Reflections on New Christian Movements by William Dyrness, offers one theologian’s unique approach to meet this need. Keywords: dyrness; insider; jesus; religion
• Salvation in Jesus’s Name Alone: How and Why Takakura Tokutaro (1885-1934), I, and Others Have Believed that Claim - by J. Nelson Jennings by Jennings - Onnuri Church, Seoul: Mission Pastor, Consultant, Int'l Liaison; GM-E Editor, J. Nelson (2018) - Takakura Tokutaro Den (Biography of Tokutaro Takakura). Studying Takakura can provide a window into why and how different Bible-believing Christians can have different foundational impulses for embracing the exclusivity of salvation in Jesus Christ alone. Keywords: bible; christ; christianity; faith; god; jennings; jesus; self; takakura; thought
• “The Trinity Is Not Our Social Program” and the Social Arian Temptation: Recovering from Mortifying Spin – Contextualization Gone Awry 4 (Christology) (Part I) by Kreitzer, Mark R. (2020) - Last, the Lord Jesus calls God, his God, and the Father, his Father analogous to how we call upon him as God and Father. “God is not Simple and the Biblical Trinitarian Doctrine: Restoring the Doctrine of Father-God from Contextualization Gone Awry 2” Global Missiology 17/1 (October). Keywords: authority; christ; father; god; jesus; lord; son; spirit; time; trinity
• “The Trinity Is Not Our Social Program” and the Social Arian Temptation: Recovering from Mortifying Spin – Contextualization Gone Awry 4 (Christology) (Part II) by Kreitzer, Mark R. (2021) - Both Word and God, Son and Father are absolutely necessary within the divine ontology. “God is not Simple and the Biblical Trinitarian Doctrine: Restoring the Doctrine of Father-God from Contextualization Gone Awry 2” Global Missiology 17/1 (October). Keywords: christ; father; glory; god; husband; jesus; relationship; son; trinity; word
• John S. Carpenter, Be Not Afraid to Follow the Footprints from Heaven (2016) and He is Alive: Science Finds Jesus (2018) by Hakim, Aftab Yunis (2022) - Thus, to delve deeply into the mystery of religious faith Carpenter first located Jesus in the medical and scientific world—which also created a medium to reach out to atheists and people of other faiths (2018, 16). 2 Book Reviews John S. Carpenter, Be Not Afraid to Follow the Footprints from Heaven (2016) and He is Alive: Science Finds Jesus (2018) Reviewed by Aftab Yunis Hakim Published in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, July 2022 Carpenter, John S. (2016). Keywords: carpenter; christ; jesus
• Editorial by Gitau, Wanjiru M. (2022) - John’s testimony was to point to Jesus: “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” We take it for granted that Jesus is barely known at this point, but the Jesus movement is only in the making, with John the Baptist as a witness and a facilitator of it. Keywords: baptist; jesus; john; nicodemus
• The Lamb Who Was Slain by Jennings, J. Nelson (2024) - Having been born into poverty, carried into exile, tempted in every manner, and shaped by unimaginable suffering, Jesus Christ is risen and reigning—scars and all. As demonstrated by the living creatures, elders, angels, and “every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them” (5:13) listed in that heavenly scene, the crucified and risen Jesus Christ eminently deserves immeasurable praise and accolades beyond our imagination. Keywords: christ; jesus; suffering
• How Should Muslim Identity be Determined? by Farrokh, Fred (2024) - If the Muslim community does not extend Muslim identity status, then can insider participants be considered as having retained Muslim identity? As the data above indicates, few Muslims are willing to confer Muslim identity upon those who worship the Lord Jesus Christ. Keywords: believers; christ; god; identity; insider; islam; islamic; jesus; muhammad; muslim
• Jesus’s Compassionate Urgency for Evangelism and Missions: Veterinary Medicine Informs Understanding Matthew 9:36 by Penn, Richard W. (2025) - Sheep are exceptionally dependent on their shepherd for guidance, food, water, and protection from other sheep, thieves, flies, parasites, diseases, and predators, which globally include coyotes, wild dogs, foxes, wolves, mountain lions, bobcats, bears, and eagles. Rocky Lindsey, Associate Professor of Animal Science at the U. of Arkansas at Monticello, DVM from LSU, who has served with and is currently associated with the Christian Veterinary Mission and who has experience raising sheep (Lindsey 2024), concurs that bloated sheep will rapidly die unless rescued, which would have been common knowledge among shepherds then. Keywords: 9:36; christ; compassion; god; jesus; john; matthew; new; sheep; shepherd
• PRE-PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT: "Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective: An Introductory Christology" by Description, Product (2010) - Microsoft Word - Jesus in Trinitarian PErspective.doc PRE-PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT: Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective: An Introductory Christology Contribution by: Garret DeWeese Donald Fairbairn, Bruce Ware, Scott Horrell Editor: Fred Sanders & Klaus Issler Product Description: Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective features six highly respected scholars from schools such as Erskine Theological Seminary, Talbot School of Theology, Dallas Theological Seminary, and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. To clarify the complex issue, these writers approach “post-Chalcedonian” (451 AD) Christology from a variety of disciplines—historical, philosophical, systematic, and practical—thoroughly examining the importance of keeping Jesus Christ in trinitarian perspective. Keywords: jesus; perspective
• gme-381 by None (None) - I believe that in missions we are often too quick to take the credit for what God accomplished – whether in a lifetime of dedicated LTM service or on a one week STM journey. Striking the Match: How God is Using Ordinary People to Change the World through Strategic Short-term Missions (e3 Resources, Franklin, TN 2008.). Keywords: god; jesus; missionary; missions; paul; stm; term; time
• Some Notes On "The Passion of the Christ" by Jaffarian, Michael (2010) - Sometimes films are historical - and there are a lot of wounds, and much blood and gore in human history. James Caviezel as Jesus. Keywords: cross; film; jesus; way
• Jesus Christ for the Chinese: A Contextual Reflection by Wan, Enoch (2010) - EITHER OR Christology Either the deity of Christ Either the Christ of kerygma or the humanity of Christ or the historical Jesus Soteriology Either God’s sovereignty Either faith Either grace Either evangelism for conversion or human free will or reason or work or social gospel as witness Ecclesiology Either the universal church Either organic unity or local congregation or organizational uniformity Eschatology Either already realized or yet to come Bibliology Either divine revelation or human authorship Jesus Christ from the West as shown in Figure 2 can be illustrated by the centuries-long christological controversy of the first several hundred years of the Christian church due to the strong hold of the either-or perspective on the nature of Christ by Christians of the West. 4.1 Cultural analysis and comparison In TWT as well as the way Chinese converts usually being taught by Western missionary, Jesus Christ is being regarded as the Savior of hell-bound sinners who need God’s forgiveness by justification through personal faith in the atoning death of Christ. Keywords: chinese; christ; god; jesus; jesus christ; theology; wan; west; western
• Do Jews need to be 'perfected?' by Kostenberger, Andreas J. (2010) - Or is this belief optional, just for Christians, and is it OK for non-Christian Jews to go on holding to their own beliefs (which involve rejecting Jesus as Messiah)? Microsoft Word - Kostenberg_Jews_July08_GM.doc Do Jews need to be 'perfected?'1 Andreas Keywords: jesus; jews
• Spiritual Warfare: Overcoming Demonization by Wan, Enoch (2010) - Spiritism, superstition and animism Most Filipinos, including many Christians, are believers and practitioners of spiritism, superstition and animism. It is advisable to speak it aloud with the witness of other Christians.) Keywords: christians; demonization; god; jesus; victory
• A COMMON WORD?” REFLECTIONS ON CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM DIALOGUE by Poston, Larry (2010) - Certainly not in the things that matter the most to Evangelicals, such as “preaching Christ crucified,” an atonement for the sins of humankind, the resurrected Lord of the Universe, the only-begotten Son of God, the incarnation of God, the Messiah whose name includes the term “Mighty God,” and the like. Muslims and Christians will certainly not cooperate in the establishment of the Church as the assembly of God’s called-out, chosen people who have experienced the new birth as the necessary prerequisite for seeing the Kingdom of Heaven. Muslims, Christians and Jews should all be “free to follow what God commanded them, and not have to prostrate before kings and the like.” Keywords: christians; god; jesus; love; muslims; neighbor; new; word
• THE GOD WHO WEPT A HUMAN TEAR: SOME THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS by Cole, Graham A. (2011) - For example, [ex hypothesis] if Jesus suffers and if Jesus is God, then it can be concluded that in Jesus God suffers.’ More precisely put – when Jesus wept we can safely say the Person of the Son wept, but not his divine nature, rather he wept out of his human nature. Matthew J. O’Connell, God of Jesus Christ (London: SCM, 1984), 195. Keywords: christ; god; impassibility; islam; jesus; john; kitamori; pain; suffering; theology; view; way
• RESPONSE TO PROFESSOR INAGAKI by Netland, Harold (2011) - In democratic societies, how can the will of the majority be enacted without infringing upon the rights of religious minorities? But in my brief response I want to probe a bit in a different direction, exploring more explicitly what it means to be followers of Jesus in modern societies politically committed to democracy and characterized by increasing religious diversity. Keywords: christians; jesus; kagawa; public; society
• Perspective of the Northeast Asian Mission from the Viewpoint of Pauline Theology: Focused on Christology by Park, Heon-Wook (2011) - The “Statement on The Relationship between Church and non-Christian Religions” in the Second Vatican Council provides a flexible Christian relationship with other religions. This paper was originally presented at the TCU/TEDS Conference on Suffering and Hope in Jesus Christ: Christological Polarity and Religious Pluralism at Tokyo Christian University, July 21-23, 2010 Coordinated by Harold Netland (TEDS) & Takanori Kobayashi (TCU) Keywords: christ; christianity; christology; death; god; jesus; life; paul; religions; resurrection; spirit; suffering; theology

• A Missio-Relational Reading of Romans: A Complementary Study to Current Approaches by Wan, Enoch (2010) - A relational approach was demonstrated to be helpful in studying the themes of “relational gospel,” “indebtedness,” Paul’s “priestly service,” and gospel-effected relationships vertically and horizontally. Ch 16 Greetings & benediction from missionary Paul who desired for partnership · Personal greetings of 30+ to individual and house churches; · Keywords: christ; gentiles; god; gospel; grace; love; paul; relational; romans; rome
• The Story and Leveraging Technology for the Sake of the Gospel by Bridges, J. D. (2013) - The vision behind this website was to give individuals and churches free access to The Story booklet by embedding it on their websites, blogs, and/or Facebook pages to supplement their evangelism efforts. This led us to write and publish The Story booklet, but not after asking several questions. Keywords: gospel; story; technology
• Coming to Grips with Genesis: Biblical Authority and the Age of the Earth by Kreitzer, Mark R. (2013) - Christ’s disciples are to think God’s revealed thoughts after Him and to follow our King in both implicit and thoroughly-thought-out trust in every area of life. Second, this volume implicit and sometimes explicitly agrees that there are no such things as neutral facts that compel us to believe something contrary to that which God reveals in Scripture. Keywords: creation; death; earth; evil; genesis; god; gospel; mortenson; scripture; time; ury; volume
• A Profile of North American Messianic Jews: A Study Conducted by Jews for Jesus by Barron, Andrew; Jamison, Beverly (2015) - What is clear is that a new narrative of contemporary Messianic Jewish life is needed: one that concedes the changing space, size and structure of the Messianic Jewish community and attempts to understand how Messianic Jewish life is evolving in the 21st century. The relationship of the Messianic Jewish community to the North American culture at-large and the Jewish community in particular is a reflection of these myriad of options. Keywords: age; community; family; gospel; groups; jews; messianic; population; respondents; study; table
• gme-1823 by None (None) - Notably Greear spends a great deal of time on the importance of extravagant generosity, especially for those living in wealthier parts of the world, and addresses this touchy topic with biblical insight and gospel focus. Greear contends that a Christianity not centered on a growing and deepening love for God is merely religious righteousness, a false Christianity that focuses not on Christ but on the believer’s deeds. Keywords: god; gospel; greear
• God’s Glory and Grace: Beyond Guilt, Shame, and Fear by Davidson, David; Hayward, Kenneth (2017) - And it is then that God replaces all the corrupted worship practices with worship of the One, True God and He receives the glory that is His due. And some missionaries may be tempted to take the approach of saying, “Come to God and He will give you honor” (shame culture). Keywords: fear; god; gospel; guilt; hearts; shame
• Editorial: The Ongoing Challenges of Contexts by Jennings, J. Nelson (2020) - Does the Bible convey different gospels to different types of cultural contexts? These two matters are also contextualization challenges. Keywords: contexts; gospel
• What Is New and What Is Old by Jennings, J. Nelson (2021) - There are new settings, new people, new technologies, new languages. Most importantly, while he gives new insights into his spectacular goodness and holiness through redemptively working new settings, the same God doggedly keeps his eternal covenant to re-make his sin-wracked creation into a glorious new heaven and earth. Keywords: gospel
• REDEMPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES by Stewart, Jim (2010) - Nevertheless, if we accept even in part the premise that we, in our generation, have indeed been entrusted by God with redemptive technologies in order to make the gospel known, we must also accept and bear an enormous responsibility. 2. Revisit the tools currently available to us and ask the question “How might they be used for gospel ministry?” Keywords: gospel; ministry; radio; technologies
• Pauline Perspectives on Persecution by Maroney, Nathan (2023) - Nevertheless, through Paul’s spiritual interpretation of his circumstances, any suffering Paul experiences for Gentiles generally, or for Christ’s body, is a benefit to those he has not met at Colossae. Abstract This article examines Paul’s view of persecution of believers for their faith. Keywords: believers; christ; gospel; paul; persecution; solidarity; suffering
• Practical Contextualization: A Case Study of Evangelizing Contemporary Chinese by Wan, Enoch (2010) - For the purpose of being context-specific, the socio-cultural context of Hong Kong Chinese is chosen for this article with the full knowledge that Chinese people are vast in number, diverse in culture and varied in accordance to local contexts: e.g. Chinese in the Mainland (華人) with five major ethnic groups (i.e. Han, Manchurian, Mongolian, Muslim, and Tibetan), and dozens of minority groups; overseas-born-Chinese (OBC), including those who have immigrated to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, USA, Canada, etc., and local-born-Chinese (LBC), including American-born-Chinese (ABC), British-born-Chinese (BBC), Canadian-born-Chinese (CBC), etc. Generalizations of all Chinese are not helpful when fruitful discussion is intended. Though there are many aspects of practical contextualization such as style of Christian living and worship, patterns of social interaction and religious institutions, processes of membership recruitment and integration, etc., we will examine the following three: conceptualization, expression and application of evangelism as an illustration of practical contextualization for Hong Kong Chinese. Keywords: chinese; christ; evangelism; god; gospel; twt; wan
• Review of Contextualization: A Theology of Gospel and Culture by Bruce J. Nicholls by Kreitzer, Mark R. (2010) - Nicholls, however, approaches this nuance in his definition of “supra- cultural”: “The phenomena of cultural belief and behavior that have their source outside of human culture” (13). Microsoft Word - Review_Contextualization_July_08_GM.doc 1 Review Contextualization: A Theology of Gospel and Culture Bruce J. Nicholls Vancouver, BC: Regent College Publishing, 2003. Keywords: contextualization; cultural; culture; gospel; nicholls; theology
• Review of "The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright" by Kreitzer, Mark R. (2010) - Since for Wright justification comes through Christ by faith and by my works done through faith and love, this leaves open the possibility of apostasy. The Pauline Gospel, according to Wright, is not about a righteous standing before God worked out by obedience to the total Mosaic Law. Keywords: christ; faith; god; gospel; justification; piper; righteousness; wright
• REVIEW: THE GOSPEL IN HUMAN CONTEXTS by Shin, Ho Sub (2010) - From the very outset, Hiebert makes it crystal clear that “not only must missionaries and ministers learn how to exegete humans, they must also know how to put the gospel into human contexts so that it is understood properly but does not become captive to these contexts” (13). In doing so, Hiebert does not overlook a number of new issues which has been raised by anthropologists and missionaries such as unity and diversity and humanness (102-105). Keywords: gospel; hiebert

• How to Foment a City-Wide Missions Movement: Lessons from Singapore by Jaffarian, Michael (2010) - SCEM organized a lot of mission events. I would advocate organizing mission events for all sectors of the Christian community – children, youth, students, the elderly, intercessors, professionals, musicians, artists, and so on. Keywords: churches; city; events; missions; scem; singapore
• PLANTING RAPIDLY REPRODUCING CHURCHES by Sergeant, Curtis (2009) - so they know when and how to transition from modeling, to assisting, to watching, to leaving as they initiate work with new believers or new churches. As soon as possible, new believers and new churches should be at the point of being producers rather than merely consumers. Keywords: believers; churches; god; lord; time
• When the Cross Is about to be Wrapped in the Red Flag, How Should Churches under the Hong Kong National Security Law Resist? by Team, Editorial (2020) - In Kwok’s view, should it one day be necessary to face such situations, Hong Kong churches should “democratize” their institutional decision-making processes; in other words, the decisions made by leaders should be reached through a process of input from and consultation with their congregations. Hong Kong churches should learn from the historical experiences of churches in other countries, such as Eastern Europe, China, South Korea, and Taiwan. Keywords: chinese; churches; hong; hong kong; kong; law; ying
• Rethinking Reproducibility: An Equipping Model for Missionary Theological Educators by Barnes, Phil; Brooks, Will (2023) - Indigenous church leaders and theologians must be equipped to think theologically about their context and the world. Rev. Cachala travels around Malawi and teaches a course that he designed that challenges and encourages Malawian churches to be involved in frontier missions—telling Malawian church leaders that they are expected to a part of reaching the unreached with the gospel. Keywords: churches; content; faithfulness; leaders; missionaries; missionary; missions
• Meeting the Needs of Internally Displaced Christian Boko Haram Victims: A Case Study of Mokolo in the Far North Region, Cameroon by Bongoyok, Moussa (2023) - Boko Haram fighters attacked his village eleven times between March 1 and June 27, 2022. The area and other localities in northern Cameroon face severe land degradation due to the abusive use of chemical fertilizer, overuse of farmland, and deforestation from the uncontrollable destruction of trees for firewood. Keywords: attacks; boko; cameroon; christians; churches; haram; mayo; millet; needs; north; region; tsanaga

• Review of God Dwells Among Us: Expanding Eden to the Ends of the Earth by Mark, Kreitzer R. (2016) - The final consummation Temple is the renewed heavens and earth in which the resurrected Christ as the God-with-us (Immanuel) dwells with His people Christ, then, is the Temple of God, and he, sent out by his Father, sends us out in turn to fill the whole earth with Temple glory, worship and praise, coming from both ethical actions and words. This volume came out of a sermon series by Dr. Mitchell Kim that sought to popularize and apply the deep biblical theology of Greg Beale’s The Temple and Church’s Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God (IVP, 2004).[footnoteRef:1] It substantiates the awesome insights that a principle-based, type-fulfillment interpretation of the Temple can bring to biblical theology of mission. Keywords: beale; christ; earth; god; kim; place; revelation; temple
• Biblical Glory-Covering Theme: Implications for the Cross-Cultural Application of the Gospel by Kreitzer, Mark R. (2017) - Oct. 2017 Abstract Corruption, pain, nakedness, sickness, death and the state of existing as a disembodied spirit are abnormal to God’s original design and involve shame, that is dishonor and lack of glory. Ultimately, the Destroyer sows doubt about the goodness of the Creator because each person is created to thank, glorify, trust, and follow him alone and to receive glory and acceptance only from him (Rom 1:18-31). Keywords: adam; body; christ; cor; covering; gen; glory; god; honor; nakedness; paul; rom; shame; spirit
• Uche Anizor and Hank Voss, Representing Christ: A Vision for the Priesthood of All Believers. by Kreitzer, Mark (2017) - Their desire is to develop a “theological vision” (21) of the doctrine of the people of God as priests in God’s kingdom as part of their “identity in Jesus Christ” (21). In the end, however, God gave an infallible, prophetic interpretation of his abhorrence of human kings in the words of the Prophet Hosea: “I gave you a king in My anger And took him away in My wrath” (Hos 13:11). Keywords: christ; god; king; ministry; priesthood; royal
• Contextualization to Avoid Syncretism through Power Encounter - by Joyce Lok by Lok - PhD student in Intercultural Studies, Biola University, Joyce (2019) - Hayward points out that the purpose of power encounters among animists is not so much the need to demonstrate the superiority of faith in Christ, but rather how faith in Christ brings peace with God, establishes a harmonious relationship with His eternal purposes, and empowers us for the tasks of everyday life (Hayward 1997:158). Even so, seven out of the ten had power encounters during their conversion or early in their Christian lives, significantly suggesting a common experience of power encounter in conversion. Keywords: believers; christ; christians; god; need; power
• Simplicity, Analogy, and the Trinity: Restoring the Doctrine of Father-God from Contextualization Gone Awry 1 - by. Mark R. Kreitzer by Kreitzer - Grand Canyon Univ: Assoc Prof, School of Theology, Mark R. (2019) - Any other god beside the one true God is an invention of humanity’s very fertile and always rebellious speculation (Rom 1:21-22; Eph 4:17-18). To answer another potential pejorative accusation, to be in relationship with the Scripture’s complex-unified Father does not necessitate resorting to speculative views of divinity that both Process Theology (PT) and the Openness of God Theology (OGT) envision. Keywords: analogy; christ; cor; dds; diversity; divine; divinity; doctrine; dolezal; e.g.; father; god; human; paul; philosophy; scripture; simplicity; son; spirit; theology; tradition; unity; wisdom; word
• TWO CRUSADES IN TWO COUNTRIES by Staff, GM (2010) - About 1,500 trusted Jesus Christ at this Spirit-led gathering. He told the crowd that only in Jesus Christ could he find the meaning of life. Keywords: christ; pray
• J. N. Manokaran, Christ, Culture and Communication by Khillare, Atul U. (2023) - Communication The first few chapters give enough understanding and basics for communication. Theological communication or common communication is not owned by the academy: it is a practice sustained by the life and worship of the church. Keywords: author; christ; communication
• Darren T. Duerksen, Christ-Followers in Other Religions: The Global Witness of Insider Movements by Satyavrata, Ivan (2023) - Insider movements seek to circumvent deep-seated anti-colonial sentiments in their attempts to share the “pure” gospel, minus the colonial-era missionary “baggage,” so that people of other faiths are able to view Christ and his claims in all their simplicity and authenticity. For this reason alone, apart from its wealth of scholarship, Christ-Followers in Other Religions is essential reading not just for those interested in insider movements, but for mission theologians, scholar-practitioners, and all those committed to sharing Christ authentically and respectfully with people of other faiths. Keywords: christ; duerksen; insider
• Developing Leaders of Christ-like Character: Insights from the Fourth Lausanne Congress by Handley, Jr., Joseph W. (2025) - Furthermore, in that gap developing leaders with Christ-like Character was needing critical attention. Abstract The Fourth Lausanne Congress, held in Seoul last September, brought together Christian leaders worldwide to strategize on evangelism, discipleship, and leadership development. Keywords: character; christ; integrity; lausanne; leadership
• History of Redemption and Biblical Interpretation by Tong, Joseph (2010) - In other words, history of salvation is the process and the consummation of the kingdom of God in Christ in human history. HISTORY OF SALVATION AND ITS INTERPRETIVE MEANING A. Christocentric or soteriocentric hermeneutical principle in biblical interpretation By affirming God’s redemptive work in the history of salvation, one stresses the fact that he who wants to know the truth needs to understand it in the category and context of the redemptive work of God in history. Keywords: christ; god; history; salvation
• Diversity in Biblical Perspective by O'Neill, D. Jim (2010) - 4;4; Hostile to God in Rom. 8:7; Herod and Pilate had been enemies, Lk. 23:12 � Barrier of hostility: allusion to the barricade in the Temple which separated the court of the Gentiles from the temple proper which included an inscription threatening death to any non-Jew who tried to pass it; � “No foreigner may enter within the barricade which surrounds the sanctuary and enclosure. � 2:19 Consequently…called to community (what we were created for in Christ) Keywords: christ; god

• A4 Incarnational Engagement: North American Missionaries in Japan by Kim, Rie Manabe- (2012) - Though missions and language schools had worked hard to teach the Japanese language-culture to the missionaries, I began to suspect that some improvements could be made in certain language-culture learning models that had resulted in isolating missionaries from the Japanese community. This story illustrates a pattern in the experience of some missionaries to Japan who sensed a call from God to come, then attended language school only to leave Japan before they had fully adjusted or built significant relationships with Japanese people. Keywords: culture; god; japan; language; learning; life; missionaries
• B5 JOURNEY FROM OBEDIENCE TO JOY by Watson, Jude Tiersma (2012) - Life is a gift—let me give thanks for every day is a gift to be received from God. Now here I was, among the concrete density of urban life, and God seemed silent. Keywords: day; family; god; joy; life; place
• C4 Embracing the Second Half of Life: Journey into Leadership by Glanville, Elizabeth (2012) - My journey was unique, but there were many other women on similar paths, dealing with similar issues that were unique to women. The Second Adulthood is the outgrowth as these women emerge into new leadership positions, building on life learning experiences from raising children. Keywords: god; leadership; life; new; program; teaching; time; women
• Life from the seat of a Texas tractor by Wan, Enoch (2015) - A bumble bee is considerably faster than a  John Deere tractor. When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.  Keywords: life
• God Is Not Simple: Toward a Proper Theology of the Trinity - Restoring the Doctrine of Father-God from Contextualization Gone Awry 2 - by Mark R. Kreitzer by Kreitzer - Grand Canyon Univ: Assoc Prof, School of Theology, Mark R. (2019) - 3 God Is Not Simple: Toward a Proper Theology of the Trinity - Restoring the Doctrine of Father-God from Contextualization Gone Awry 2 Mark R. Kreitzer Published in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, October 2019 As the Belgic Confession, Article 7 states: “Therefore we must not consider human writings … equal to the divine writings; nor may we put custom, nor the majority, nor age, nor the passage of time or persons, nor councils, decrees, or official decisions above the truth of God, for truth is above everything else.” Keywords: biblical; dds; diversity; divine; divinity; doctrine; father; god; life; living; real; scripture; simple; simplicity; spirit; time; unity; yhwh
• QUINTESENTIAL GLOBAL SOUL by Cook, Charles A. (2010) - All of us who knew him have our own personal “Paul Hiebert memories.” Paul Hiebert did an apt job of modeling both for us! Keywords: ashram; hiebert; life; paul
• IN REMEMBRANCE OF PAUL G. HIEBERT by Frykenberg, Robert Eric (2010) - Note: Robert Eric Frykenberg, also from a missionary family and a historian of India’s Christianity, grew up in Telengana and knew Paul Hiebert from childhood, through school years at Kodaikanal, and through most of his professional life as a scholar and missionary 3 Ibid. The Madiga-Christian movement reached its zenith in 1778, when 2222 converts were baptized in a single day IN REMEMBRANCE OF PAUL G. HIEBERT1 1934-2007 By Robert Eric Frykenberg Professor Emeritus of History & South Asian Studies The University of Wisconsin – Madison 26th March 2007 Published under “Contemporary Practice” at www.globalmissiology.org, April 2008 Paul Hiebert, a faithful follower of Jesus Christ as his Lord, was more than a saintly man of God who, richly endowed with gifts of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22), became a spiritual giant. Keywords: india; life; missionary; paul; years

• A BIBLICAL CRITIQUE TO C5 STRATEGIES AMONG MUSLIMS by Martin, Carlos G. (2012) - Believers develop a Christian identity. · C5 Communities of Muslim believers who maintain their Islamic identity. · C6 Secret, isolated, or underground believers. Muslims, however, don’t see C4 believers as Muslims. Keywords: believers; contextualization; cultural; culture; muslim; syncretism
• REVELATION CONFRONTS CULTURE by Grant, Paul E. (2010) - And the intelligence of the clever1, But for grasping the knowledge of God Their mechanisms failed to deliver Reason needed something else, A mysterious Spirit power To possess its potentiality If God’s knowledge was to flower Paul spoke of a wisdom that was hidden2 The wisdom of Holy Spirit, When the mind consents to his Lordship This wisdom we inherit Paul goes further when he says The mind of Christ directs us3, Human thinking is thus transformed And wisdom comes to its fullness God’s revelations transcend reason Yet reason under God’s rule, Animated and enlightened, Becomes irresistible In a merger that only God could create Spirit and reason participate, 1 1 Corinthians 1:19 2 1 Corinthians 2:7 3 1 Corinthians 2:16 Revelation Confronts Culture by Paul E. Grant March 2007 Page 3 Reason submits and communicates A knowledge that authenticates Authenticity is in more than the words Of a culture’s imagination, The authentic mind of God is conveyed By the Spirit’s illumination Revelation must descend into reason So I am intrigued that the finest thinking When surrendered to God, its admission Becomes so wonderfully transformed, Its cultural destiny reaches fruition Greek thinking needed a cleansing, Then following, a conversion as well, Its riches free of sin’s baggage Would be fitted for the Gospel to tell Greek thought, Greek words, Greek notions Became instruments of the Divine, Becoming free of self-serving interests They gained a celestial shine Cultural worldviews need conversion Thinking and language are gifts from God, When these are saved and sanctified They pass the test of his measuring rod First Corinthians Chapters One and Two Stress the importance of revelation, Thinking and words when so possessed Exceed all human invention Keywords: culture; god; paul
• INTERPRETATION OF JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH IN CHINESE CULTURAL CONTEXT by Liu, Evan (2017) - � � ADDIN EN.CITE Niebuhr19562727276Niebuhr, H. Richardx, 259 p.Christianity and culture.1956New YorkHarper & Brothers12911404Jefferson or Adams Bldg General or Area Studies Reading Rms BR115.C8; N5 1956 Main or Science/Business Reading Rms - STORED OFFSITE BR115.C8; N5 1956�H. Richard Niebuhr, Christ and Culture (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956), �32-36; the following quotations are from ibid. � � ADDIN EN.CITE 杨泽波200212121217Chinese Culture ResearchCCRChinese Culture ResearchCCRChinese Culture ResearchCCR1�杨泽波, “公与私：义利诠释中的沉疴痼疾,” CCR 1 (2002): �43. Keywords: app="en; charset="134; chinese; culture; face="normal; faith; font="default; justification; keys>
• A Relational Aid to Multicultural Fields: Cultural Metacognition by Lewis, Fred (2021) - Cultural metacognition includes unconscious,[endnoteRef:1] in-the-moment monitoring and control of cognition, as well as conscious reflective reasoning and planning. The article classifies cultural metacognition as a relational activity because it can help fieldmates see each other for who they are. Keywords: brain; cultural; culture; fieldmates; information; knowledge; learning; mcf; metacognition; new
• REVIEW: SLAVES, WOMEN, AND HOMOSEXUALS by Kreitzer, Mark R. (2010) - SLAVES, WOMEN, AND HOMOSEXUALS Published under Review & Preview at www.globalmissiology.net, October 2008 7 then maturation but on a never-before-seen ideal of the future.29 Paul does not make an argument based on primogeniture as Webb claims (see criteria 6), but on the fact that Adam was created first with representative authority as the first Man, which the woman surely was not. Microsoft Word - kritzer_reviewwebb_slaves_women_homosexuals_4_2008.doc SLAVES, WOMEN, AND HOMOSEXUALS William Webb Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2004. Keywords: creation; culture; ethic; god; hermeneutic; ideal; idem; movement; scripture; spirit; webb

• Biblical Ethics by Dahms, John V. (2010) - Lutzer; The Morality Gap, 106, insists, If exceptions are made to moral laws, these exceptions must have scriptural authority. In the rest of the Old Testament there are sections in which the Law is not specifically mentioned, or only rarely so. Keywords: commandments; ethics; god; law; love; matt; new; paul; prescriptions; rom; son; spirit; testament; view
• Global Partnership: Re-Vision the Macedonaian Vision – A Voice from the Global South by Hwang, James C. (2015) - First, while Apostle Paul wanted to focus on the area of Asia Minor, God led Paul to advance to Europe – a geographic breakthrough. First, while Apostle Paul wanted to focus on the area of Asia Minor, God led Paul to advance to Europe – a geographic breakthrough. Keywords: global; god; paul
• gme-1783 by None (None) - What Does Paul Say? Paul says a lot, of course, but I will limit my comments to two specific matters. Nowhere does Paul state or even remotely imply that any motive would render void his instruction to avoid participation in pagan sacrifice. Keywords: corinthians; higgins; idol; paul; thdtgb0r; users; � �
• Diaspora Couple Priscilla and Aquila: A Model Family in Action for Missions by Wan, Enoch (2010) - In Ephesus Priscilla and Aquila opened their home to receive another diaspora Jew from Alexandria – Apollos, “an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures… being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord” (Acts 18:24- 25). Priscilla and Aquila is a Jewish couple on the move: Pontus � Rome � Corinth � Ephesus � Rome. Keywords: diaspora; paul; priscilla
• SHOULD WE EXPECT MOMS TO DO MORE? HOW MOMS MAKE DISCIPLES IN ALL NATIONS by Hudson, Carrie (2015) - This process prepared us for other good works. She has written Redefining Home: Squatty Potties, Split Pants, and Other Things that Divide My World (Houston, TX: Keywords: commission; disciples; ministry; paul; things
• Editorial by Wan, Enoch (2010) - FREE - See the “Preview and Review” section, our thanks to: · author Norman McIlwain for the offer to GM readers free copies of “The Biblical Revelation of the Cross” and · Jonathan Bonk for offering free issues of IBMR to students. FREE: out-of-rint books to share The project of scholars donating out-or-print books to share with readership of Global Missiology: · began with the 5 titles from Ted Yamamori (the “Introduction…” piece in this issue, from Christopaganism or Indigenous Christianity, and “God’s New Convoy” of last issue are such examples). Keywords: paul
• A Tribute to My Colleague, Paul G. Hiebert by Hesselgrave, David J. (2010) - Microsoft Word - Hesselgrave-A_Tribute_to_Paul_Hiebert[1].doc A Tribute to My Colleague, Paul G. Hiebert. It is to that point I want to speak in paying tribute to Paul G. Hiebert. Keywords: hiebert; paul
• FROM INDIA WITH APPRECIATIONS - A TRIBUTE TO PAUL G. HIEBERT - by Hedlund, Roger; Bhakiaraj, Paul Joshua (2010) - In his scholarship Paul was modeling how a genuine theologian/missiologist of world Christianity can contribute to the study of Christianity worldwide. Published in the special issue “A Memoriam of Paul G. Hiebert” www.globalmissiology.org April 1, 2007 Keywords: paul
• --A TRIBUTE TO PAUL G. HIEBERT-- by Shaw, R. Daniel (2010) - The death of Paul Hiebert is a sad day for those who knew him, but a day of rejoicing for Paul. He authored several Anthropological and mission oriented books as (picture of Paul Hiebert - by Georgia R. Grimes in 1981 at Fuller Theological Seminary) well as an ethnography of an Indian village. Keywords: paul; university
• PAUL HIEBERT - A TRIBUTE by Grant, Paul E. (2010) - Paul E. Grant March 2007 Brisbane, Australia Published in the special issue “A Memoriam of Paul G. Hiebert” www.globalmissiology.org April 1, 2007 1 Daniel 12:13 Humbling yourself like your Master, Paul, God’s micro-processor to teach us all Just like your esteemed namesake You too dismissed all fame, “I do not deserve to be called an apostle”, Were his words, but also went on to claim, “By the grace of God I am what I am” Keywords: paul
• A Tribute to Paul G. Hiebert, Professor, Colleague, Brother, Pilgrim by Tienou, Tite (2010) - Microsoft Word - Tribute - Tite.doc A Tribute to Paul G. Hiebert, Professor, Colleague, Brother, Pilgrim Tite Tienou, Ph. D. Senior Vice President of Education & Academic Dean Trinity Evangelical Divinity School I met Dr. Paul G. Hiebert in September 1980, in Pasadena, California, on the campus of Fuller Theological Seminary at the beginning of my studies there. Till we see each other again on the other side of life, I thank God for him and take this occasion to pay tribute to Paul Hiebert, professor, colleague, brother and pilgrim. Keywords: hiebert; paul
• Retracing the Memory Path by Gilliland, Dean (2010) - Microsoft Word - Retracing the Memory Path.doc Retracing the Memory Path Dean Gilliland Sr. Professor, SIS, Fuller Theological Seminary During Paul's years at Fuller we bonded as missionaries and mission family. Published in the special issue “A Memoriam of Paul G. Hiebert” www.globalmissiology.org April 1, 2007 Keywords: paul
• MY INDEBTEDNESS TO PAUL G. HIEBERT, FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE by Allison, Norm (2010) - It was Paul who helped me translate secular anthropology into Christian anthropology, and I was always knowingly indebted to him for that valuable contribution to my life and ministry. Published in the special issue “A Memoriam of Paul G. Hiebert” www.globalmissiology.org April 1, 2007 Keywords: paul
• A Tribute to Paul Hiebert - scholarship with impact & influence - by Dougherty, E. David (2010) - Microsoft Word - A Tribute to Paul Hiebert-impact.doc A Tribute to Paul Hiebert - scholarship with impact & influence - Dr. Paul Heibert has immeasurably contributed to the extension of the Gospel of Christ in Asia and around the world through his scholarship and genuinely godly character. E. David Dougherty OMF U.S. Plans and Training OMF International Leader Development Team IFMA/EFMA LeaderLink Team Home Office: 1-303 791-4203 SKYPE: edavidomf 1 303 857-5218 SINGAPORE 8190-9185 Published in the special issue “A Memoriam of Paul G. Hiebert” www.globalmissiology.org April 1, 2007 Keywords: paul
• Compilation of tributes & messages from Paul’s friend and colleagues by Wan, Enoch (2010) - Mike Pocock From: Gailyn Van Rheenen Sent: Wed 3/14/2007 6:51 PM To: Enoch Wan Subject: Re: [UNVERIFIED SENDER] THEME - A Memoriam of Paul G. Hiebert at www.globalmissiology.org Enoch, I wish I could find time to give honor to Paul Hiebert in this way. Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:22:04 -0500 From: Roger Greenway To: Subject: Re: our mutual friend Paul Hiebert Dear Enoch, Thank you so much for the update on Paul Hiebert. Keywords: enoch; hiebert; paul
• REMEMBERING DR. PAUL HIEBERT by Waybright, Greg (2010) - PAUL HIEBERT Greg Waybright President, Trinity International University March 12, 2007 Dr. Paul Hiebert was one of the leading global Christians of the past century: missiologist, anthropologist, teacher of those who will teach the nations (Matthew 28:20), mentor to countless leaders in Christ-centered higher education throughout the world, thinker, encourager, husband, father, friend, follower of Jesus. Personally, few have encouraged me as much as Dr. Paul Hiebert. Keywords: paul
• REVELATION CONFRONTS CULTURE by Grant, Paul E. (2010) - So I am intrigued that the finest thinking When surrendered to God, its admission Becomes so wonderfully transformed, Its cultural destiny reaches fruition Greek thinking needed a cleansing, Then following, a conversion as well, Its riches free of sin’s baggage Would be fitted for the Gospel to tell Greek thought, Greek words, Greek notions Became instruments of the Divine, Becoming free of self-serving interests They gained a celestial shine Cultural worldviews need conversion Thinking and language are gifts from God, 3 1 Corinthians 2:16 Revelation Confronts Culture by Paul E. Grant March 2007 Page 1 REVELATION CONFRONTS CULTURE Paul E. Grant (Brisbane, Australia) (Paul began Pentecostal ministry in 1947 and continues in regular part-time lecturing - ) PROLOGUE Malachi lived not long before the period of Greek (Hellenistic) culture. Keywords: god; paul; revelation
• FOND MEMORIES OF PAUL HIEBERT FROM A GRATEFUL DISCIPLE by Strauss, Steve (2010) - Over the next years Paul's thinking on form and meaning, critical contextualization, and critical realism became the building blocks of conceptual highway that showed me the way through the tough missiological issues I was facing. Microsoft Word - FOND MEMORIES-Struss.doc FOND MEMORIES OF PAUL HIEBERT FROM A GRATEFUL DISCIPLE Steve Strauss, Director, SIM USA As a young missionary in Ethiopia, struggling with the relationship between the Bible and culture, I was introduced to the writings of Paul Hiebert. Keywords: paul
• TRIBUTE TO FRAN & Paul HIEBERT by Watson, Jude Tiersma (2010) - My life will be forever enriched by the welcome and embrace of Paul and Fran Hiebert. Published in the special issue “A Memoriam of Paul G. Hiebert” www.globalmissiology.org April 1, 2007 Keywords: paul
• JOB, GOD’S MAN OF TRUE FAME: HANDLING THE UNEXPLAINABLE by Grant, Paul (2010) - But God used Job to humiliate him. Job is a book that helps us understand and accept the inscrutable ways of God as being part of our existence and – as Job clearly shows – development in faith. Keywords: fame; god; grant; job; man; music; paul; poetry; suffering
• RE-THINKING “CAREER MISSIONS” IN LIGHT OF PAUL THE “SHORT-TERM MISSIONARY” by Poston, Larry (2010) - But what we are often unwilling to admit are the very significant problems associated with longer missionary terms, many of which are actually mitigated by short-term service. With respect to the need for increased funding that is often experienced by career missionaries in the midst of a four-year term and over longer periods, this problem could be assuaged by shorter intervals abroad and longer terms at home. Keywords: acts; allen; career; ministry; missionaries; missionary; missions; paul; term; time; years
• Missionary Training for the Twenty First Century: Biblical Foundations by Wan, Enoch; Hedinger, Mark (2011) - Acts 20:4 In Acts 20 we find more evidence that Paul deliberately recruited and trained new cross-cultural missionaries. Paul – Missionary Trainer When we read the book of the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline Epistles we notice that Paul had two goals: Preaching the gospel (and by doing so, planting churches); and discipling a new generation of cross-cultural missionaries. Keywords: missionaries; missionary; paul; tim; timothy; training

• GM Contributor Bios by Robinson, George G. (2013) - Upon completion of her Master of Divinity in Missiology, she plans to serve in mission work in North America as well as partner with international missions in discipleship and church planting.  Global Missiology (www.globalmissiology.org) October 2013 Edition editor – Dr. George G. Robinson, Assistant Professor of Missions & Evangelism and Headrick Chair of World Missions, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, NC. (www.sebts.edu) Keywords: missiology
• Diaspora Missiology by Wan, Enoch (2010) - Dr. Terry Casino (Ph.D. & Th.D.) - Filipino diaspora in Europe 2. Dr. Enoch Wan (Ph.D.) - Chinese diaspora 19. Keywords: diaspora; missiology; ph.d
• The Importance and Significance of Missiological Research – Christian Stewardship in Leadership by Wan, Enoch (2016) - Due to the brevity of this paper, we began with definition of key terms, then use diagrams to explain the importance and significance of missiological research, and concluded by introducing Wan’s five-step approach in inter-disciplinary research in missiology. INTRODUCTION This paper will begin with defining key terms, followed by explanation of the importance and significance of missiological research in order to help Christian leaders be good stewards of resources and opportunity. Keywords: missiology; research; study; theology; wan
• My Journey with “Global Missiology” (GM): Reflection and Review by Wan, Enoch (2018) - Understanding Demonization PDF DOC HTML Enoch Wan Spiritual Warfare: Overcoming Demonization PDF DOC HTML Enoch Wan Contextualization Christianity In The Eye Of Traditional Chinese PDF DOC HTML Enoch Wan Critiquing the Method of Traditional Western Theology and Calling for Sino-Theology PDF DOC HTML Enoch Wan Jesus Christ for the Chinese: A Contextual Reflection PDF DOC HTML Enoch Wan Exploring Sino-Spirituality PDF DOC HTML Enoch Wan Practical Contextualization: A Case Study of Evangelizing Contemporary Chinese PDF DOC HTML Enoch Wan Sailing in the Western Wind PDF DOC HTML THE OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF “GLOBAL MISSIOLOGY” THE OPERATION OF “GLOBAL MISSIOLOGY” The vision for GM was to serve the Christian community globally with a passion to supplement traditional missiological publications by free access without any paid subscriptions. Due to the scarcity of missiological publications in Spanish, Chuck Van Engan both challenged and encouraged me to explore the possibility of adding a GM-Spanish. Keywords: global; html; methodology; missiology; research
• gme-2526 by None (None) - The following topics are examples of requested articles: · Review of recent literature on Pentecostal / Spirit-Empowered Mission · Contemporary Case Studies · Historical Case Studies · Biblical-theological Analysis · Missiological Analysis · Strategic Models Proposed titles with approximately 100-word abstracts are due January 31, 2022. Call for Papers: “Pentecostal / Spirit-Empowered Mission” For Publication in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, October 2022 The October 2022 issue of Global Missiology - English will take up a theme of increasing importance and worldwide relevance, “Pentecostal / Spirit-Empowered Mission.” Keywords: missiology
• “Kingdom Movements”: Perceptions, Analyses, and Realities by Jennings, J. Nelson (2022) - Critics and skeptics may see the current evangelical missions movement movement” as little more than the latest fad that will soon morph into the next decade-long obsession. Once you catch on to how prevalent Kingdom Movements are actually occuring, advocates assert, you begin to see that such movements are indeed “God’s Way of Reaching Entire Peoples”—a goal which, the exhortation goes, is not only the ultimate goal of missions but should be the keystone of biblical hermeneutics and Christian living. Keywords: god; missiology; missions; movements
• Call for Papers for April 2023 Special Issue: “Theological Education and Mission” by Editorial Team, GME (2022) - The following topics are examples of requested articles: · Review of recent literature on Theological Education and Mission · Contemporary Case Studies · Historical Case Studies · Biblical-theological Analysis · Missiological Analysis · Strategic Models Proposed titles with approximately 100-word abstracts are due July 31, 2022. Call for Papers: “Theological Education and Mission” For Publication in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, April 2023 The April 2023 issue of Global Missiology - English will take up the multifaceted theme of “Theological Education and Mission.” Keywords: missiology
• Call for Papers for October 2023 Special Issue: “Christian Persecution and Suffering” by Editorial Team, GME (2022) - Call for Papers: “Christian Persecution and Suffering” For Publication in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, October 2023 The October 2023 issue of Global Missiology - English will take up a theme of increasing importance and worldwide relevance, “Christian Persecution and Suffering.” The following topics are examples of requested articles: · Review of Recent Literature on Christian Persecution and Suffering · Contemporary Case Studies · Historical Case Studies · Biblical-theological Analysis · Missiological Analysis Proposed titles with approximately 100-word abstracts are due January 31, 2023. Keywords: missiology
• Call for Papers for April 2024 Special Issue: “Revivals around the World” by Editorial Team, GME (2023) - The following topics are examples of requested articles: · Review of recent literature on Revivals · Contemporary Case Studies · Historical Case Studies · Biblical-theological Analyses · Missiological Analyses Proposed titles with approximately 100-word abstracts are due July 31, 2023. Call for Papers: “Revivals around the World” For Publication in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, April 2024 Keywords: missiology
• Call for Papers for October 2024 Special Issue: “Recessions and Declines: Noteworthy Decreases of Christianity and Its Influence” by GME Editorial Team (2024) - The following topics are examples of requested articles: · Review of Recent Literature on Christian Recessions and Declines · Case Studies of Local, Regional, or Broader Decreases in Christian Presence and Influence · Contemporary Case Studies—including on so-called “Religious Nones” · Historical Case Studies · Biblical-theological Analyses · Missiological Analyses Proposed titles with approximately 100-word abstracts are due January 31, 2024. Call for Papers “Recessions and Declines: Noteworthy Decreases of Christianity and Its Influence” For Publication in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, October 2024 Keywords: missiology
• Call for Papers for October 2024 Special Issue: “Recessions and Declines: Noteworthy Decreases of Christianity and Its Influence” by GME Editorial Team (2024) - The following topics are examples of requested articles: · Review of Recent Literature on Christian Recessions and Declines · Case Studies of Local, Regional, or Broader Decreases in Christian Presence and Influence · Contemporary Case Studies—including on so-called “Religious Nones” · Historical Case Studies · Biblical-theological Analyses · Missiological Analyses Proposed titles with approximately 100-word abstracts are due February 29, 2024. Call for Papers “Recessions and Declines: Noteworthy Decreases of Christianity and Its Influence” For Publication in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, October 2024 Keywords: missiology
• Editorial by Wan, Enoch (2010) - We thank Ric Beemer for his years of faithful service as the web master of Global Missiology and he is being succeeded by Samuel Wong in this October issue of transition. Key articles are posted on the theme of “Missions in the 21st Century” and worth mentioning are the pieces dealing with “Diaspora Missiology” in “Research Methodology” section, including the launching of the Institute of Diaspora Studies at Western Seminary and the November Consultation to be held in Edmonton, Canada.   Keywords: missiology
• Diaspora Missiology by Tira, Sadiri Joy (2010) - The E-journal www.globalmissiolgy.org is diasporic in design; it has a section entirely devoted to Diaspora studies. The E-journal www.globalmissiolgy.org is inclusive of diasporic in design; it has a section entirely devoted to Diaspora studies. Keywords: diaspora; educators; migration; missiology
• INTERVIEW WITH ENOCH WAN ON DIASPORA MISSIOLOGY by Payne, J.D. (2012) - It can be used as a text in an academic context, but it can also be used as a reference tool for leaders/practitioners who would like to engage in the practice of diaspora missions (i.e. missions to the diaspora, missions through the diaspora, and missions by and beyond the diaspora.). In Chapter 20 of my book, there is a case study of how local congregations in Minnesota are engaging in diaspora missions with exciting outcomes and encouraging strategies. Keywords: diaspora; missiology

• ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAFY:PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION AMONG THE HISPANICS by Cuartas, Victor H. (2010) - He is the author of “Empowering Hispanic Leaders.” These suggestions obviously hold out much promise in meeting the needs for more widespread training for Hispanic leaders. Keywords: book; education; hernandez; hispanic; ibid; leaders; ministry; theology
• A Covenantal Ontology of the Triune God: An Attempt to Expound the Relationship between the Covenant and Ontology and Answer Richard Phillips’ Criticisms of My Views by Smith, Ralph Allan (2010) - God reveals Himself to us as the One and Only Living God, who from eternity is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Thus, if the name “Son of God” means the one who is our covenantal Messiah and Savior, and suggests the covenant given to us in Christ, then by analogy the name “Son of God” implies covenantal relationship when used of the Son’s relationship to the Father. Keywords: adam; covenant; covenant god; creation; divine; doctrine; essence; father; god; john; love; man; persons; reformed; relationship; son; son relationship; spirit; theology; til; trinity; van; view; word; works
• Review of "Global Dictionary of Theology: A Resource for the Worldwide Church" by Ki, William (2010) - Historical theology traces the development of theology through time. There are atypical theological articles as well, including “theology of the city,” “Anabaptist theology,” “black theology,” “narrative theology,” “postcolonial theology,” “postliberal theology,” “Caribbean theology,” and “mujerista theology.” Keywords: dictionary; global; theological; theology
• Ministering in Honor-Shame Cultures: Biblical Foundations and Practical Essentials by Penner, Robert (2017) - “Shame cultures focus on who you are; guilt cultures emphasize what you do” (Kindle 528-529). “Biblical theology consistently addresses honor and shame because the cultures of the biblical world revolved around those values. Keywords: cultures; guilt; honor; shame; theology
• A Covenantal Ontology of the Triune God by Smith, Ralph Allan (2010) - Thus, if the name “Son of God” means the one who is our covenantal Messiah and Savior, and suggests the covenant given to us in Christ, then by analogy the name “Son of God” implies covenantal relationship when used of the Son’s relationship to the Father. The traditional view teaches, according to Plantinga, that “in God persons and attributes are identical, as are persons and the sum of the attributes, the divine essence.” Keywords: adam; covenant; covenant god; divine; doctrine; essence; father; god; john; man; ontology; persons; reformed; relationship; son; son relationship; spirit; theology; til; trinity; triune god; van; view; word; works
• Critiquing the Method of Traditional Western Theology and Calling for Sino-Theology by Wan, Enoch (2010) - The compartmentalization of disciplines (extreme, reductionistic and tunnel-vision type of specialization) and dichotomistic conceptualization (e.g. scientific vs. spiritual, rationalistic vs. mystical, natural vs. supernatural, cultural vs. supra-cultural, human vs. divine, this-worldly vs. other-worldly, empirical vs. intuitive, etc.) are just manifestations of the either/or dualistic thought pattern in TWT. FIGURE 2 - THE EITHER/OR PATTERN OF TWT (Wan 1997: 4) Keywords: chinese; pattern; theology; twt

• C3 Giving God a Chance: A Pentecostal on the Journey’s Edge by Landrø, Marit (2012) - From then on I would to be more behind the scene, training young people in Norway for missionary work, as best I knew how. The key issue were the importance of understanding worldview in missionary work. Keywords: god; missionary; norway; pentecostal; training; years
• Review: "The Missionary Call" by Wilson, Cory (2010) - As Sills laments, “In the journey to discern whether God has placed a missionary call on our lives, we often encounter a maze of paths to follow. Sills seeks to provide a guide through the conflicting maze by seeing “what God’s Word teaches about the missionary call,” examining “biblical and historical examples of God’s call,” and learning “ how to bring this knowledge to bear on personal experience” (17). Keywords: missionary; sills
• Jesuit Missionary Outreach during the 19th and 20th Centuries by Estes, Steven L. (2022) - As McGreevy points out, “Nineteenth century Jesuits came to blame the suppression on an alliance of corrupt monarchs and anti-Catholic Enlightenment intellectuals, who together forced the hand of a reluctant Pope Clement” (McGreevy 2016, 12). French Jesuits arrived in Chad and Cameroon, the seed from which the Province of West Africa was formed in 1983. Keywords: century; jesuits; mcgreevy; missionaries; missionary; new; o’malley; society
• Two Important Research-Based Missionary Training Principles by Lin, Arthur (2023) - Third, experiential training is valuable because trainees are challenged and stretched to grow, learn, and adapt in ways not possible in other forms of training. What this article is suggesting is that relationship-based, experiential training is a superior form of training for most missionaries and that organizations would do well to plan their training with these principles in mind—instead of defaulting to current training practices. Keywords: field; missionaries; missionary; principles; relationship; research; training
• Review by Kyle III, I. Francis (2010) - Missionaries in Hawai'i: The Lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick, 1797-1883 PAGE 1 Review Missionaries in Hawai’i: The Lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick, 1797−1883 Clifford Putney Clifford Putney. Putney’s Missionaries in Hawai’i endeavors to take a balanced and “empathetic rather than hagiographic or condemnatory” approach in studying the lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick (5). Keywords: gulick; missionaries; missionary; putney

• WHY I AM AN ESSENTIALIST ABOUT ISLAM AND WHY THAT IS IMPORTANT? by Anonymous, THREE (2017) - Islam has not convened councils like the early Christian councils, and the majority Sunni Islam does not have any individuals who can speak for it the way that Popes have spoken for Catholics. The Druze add the writings of their prophet, Hamza ibn Ali (985 – 1021), but in contrast to the Ahmadiyya, do not count themselves as Muslims, although their group could be considered as an offshoot of Shi’a Islam. Keywords: boundaries; boundary; christianity; essentialist; faith; islam; islamic; muslims; religion
• The Diffusion of Christianity in South Korea - by Ryan Klejment-Lavin and Jamie N. Sanchez by Klejment-Lavin - PhD student, Intercultural Studies, Biola University, Ryan; Sanchez - Assistant Professor, Director of PhD Intercultural Studies, Biola University, Jamie N. (2019) - Key Words: Culture, Diffusion, History, Innovation, Korea Introduction Missiologists have long lauded the church in South Korea as an example of explosive church growth (Kim 2000; Moon 2008). “Korean Religious Culture and Its Affinity to Christianity: The Rise of Protestant Christianity in South Korea” Sociology Of Religion 61(2):117-133. Keywords: change; christianity; innovation; japanese; kim; korea; south
• Emma Wild-Wood, The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya: Religious Encounter & Social Change in the Great Lakes c.1865-1935 by Ndegwa, Andrew (2023) - 50 Book Review Emma Wild-Wood, ​The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya: Religious Encounter & Social Change in the Great Lakes c.1865-1935 Reviewed by Andrew Ndegwa Published in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, July 2023 Wild-Wood, Emma (2020). The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya: Religious Encounter and Social Change in the Great Lakes c. 1865-1935. Keywords: christianity; kivebulaya; prof; wild; wood
• gme-437 by None (None) - The outlook of Christianity represented by Western missionaries in China and practiced by new Chinese converts had all the appearance of a Western religion: the methodology of evangelism, the design of church building, the seating arrangement at worship services, the hymn book and the musical instruments used, the format of worship program, etc., all these objective phenomena confirmed the historical fact of Christianity being imported by Western missionaries from European countries, in addition to the subjective perception. Western missionaries who brought Christianity to China also took with them the practice of internal conflicts among factions of Christian groups. Keywords: article; china; chinese; christianity; form; missionaries; style
• Sailing in the Western Wind by Wan, Enoch (2010) - The understanding of the historical contexts of the coming of Christianity to China in the T'ang and Ch'ing dynasties will shed light on the two questions: 1) Why Chinese resent the entering of Western missionaries and why they resist Christianity considering it as a foreign import? Abstract First in a series of six articles concerning Christianity and evangelism within the contexts of the two very different systems of contemporary USA and the overseas-born Chinese, this article identifies elements of Western influence on Chinese culture and Chinese Christianity. Keywords: china; chinese; christianity; government; military; west

• Call for Papers for October 2020 Special Issue: "Socio-Political Disruptions and Missions Praxis" by Team, GME Editorial (2019) - (One example among many topics worth pursuing is how cross-cultural workers have been affected by increased availability of online entertainment and social media: whereas in the past a person or a group would have gone out for evangelism, some missionaries are spending more time watching movies and trying to cope with culture shock by turning inwards or homewards.) · Global demographic transformations - including aging populations in the West and other “developed” nations such as Japan and South Korea, as well as younger populations in Africa - that carry vast implications for points of mission focus as well as for missions mobilization, funding, and generational missions visions. The “closing up” or “limitation” of certain frontier missions, e.g., China’s and India’s restrictions, Africa’s control of work permits. Keywords: example; missions
• Call for Papers for October 2020 Special Issue: "Socio-Political Disruptions and Missions Praxis" by Team, GME Editorial (2020) - (One example among many topics worth pursuing is how cross-cultural workers have been affected by increased availability of online entertainment and social media: whereas in the past a person or a group would have gone out for evangelism, some missionaries are spending more time watching movies and trying to cope with culture shock by turning inwards or homewards.) · Global demographic transformations - including aging populations in the West and other “developed” nations such as Japan and South Korea, as well as younger populations in Africa - that carry vast implications for points of mission focus as well as for missions mobilization, funding, and generational missions visions. The “closing up” or “limitation” of certain frontier missions, e.g., China’s and India’s restrictions, Africa’s control of work permits. Keywords: example; missions
• Tribute to Dr. Ralph D. Winter by Chinn, Leiton (2010) - Microsoft Word - Leiton Chinn_tribute.doc Tribute to Dr. Ralph D. Winter Leiton Chinn Published in the July 2009 issue of the multi-lingual online journal www.GlobalMissiology.org International Coordinator, Edinburgh'80: World Consultation on Frontier Missions Past-President, Association of Christian Ministries to Internationals (ACMI) I believe Dr. Winter had a gift for discernment that was coupled with faith as he ventured forth to delegate major pioneering mission roles to 20-30 something who were unknowns to the veteran missions community. Keywords: missions
• A Tribute to Dr. K. Rajendran: Former General Secretary, India Missions Association and Missions Secretary, World Evangelical Association: (Promoted to glory on 22 May 2022) by Manokaran, J. N. (2022) - 2 2 A Tribute to Dr. Rajendran Former General Secretary, India Missions Association and Missions Secretary, World Evangelical Association (Promoted to glory on 22 May 2022) Dr. Rajendran was chosen and appointed later. Keywords: missions; rajendran; vision
• THE POTENTIAL VALUE OF SHORT-TERM MISSIONS AS PREPARATION FOR LONG-TERM CROSS-CULTURAL MINISTRY AND SERVICE: A case study of the internship program of Northwestern College by Morgan, Garry R.; Easterling, John F. (2010) - Some of these programs are excellent, such as HoughtonCollege’s Semester in Tanzania (Arensen 14-19), and some share similar goals to internship programs, but most are not designed to develop skills in cross-cultural ministry. Follow up activities keep the teams connected, and members of previous teams help in orienting new team members for future internship trips. Keywords: college; easterling; internship; missions; northwestern; students; term; trip

• Editorial - by Jim Harries and J. Nelson Jennings by Harries - Alliance for Vulnerable Mission - jimoharries@gmail.com, Jim; Jennings - Onnuri Community Church: Mission Pastor, Consultant, Int'l Liaison; GM-E Editor, J. Nelson (2018) - Into that mix come cross-cultural missionaries. As an attempt to emulate the servant-posture of Jesus himself, as well as a corrective to missions initiated out of strength and resourcefulness, “Vulnerable Mission” points toward cross-cultural service carried out in weakness, insufficiency, and vulnerability. Keywords: missionaries
• UNLIKELY MISSIONARIES by Grant, Paul E. (2010) - Over a lifetime of reading About missionaries of many kinds I’ve come to an understanding That God seems strangely inclined To choose and use the most unlikely, Baffling conventional psychology Think for example of John Newton Slave-trader and profiteer “Amazing grace” and sins forgiven Transformed this buccaneer. For them it is part of spiritual fitness The noble Christian mission saga Has been written by this world’s rejects, God sees them as his people of wonder Heralds of his Eternity project. Keywords: god; missionaries
• Matt Rhodes, No Shortcut to Success: A Manifesto for Modern Missions by Wu, Jackson (2022) - With candor and clarity, Rhodes evaluates the disturbing trend among many missionaries to seek shortcuts to ministry success. Matt Rhodes’s No Shortcut to Success is a sobering gust of reality for missionaries dehydrated of spiritual encouragement and depleted by the pragmatism endemic to much missiological literature. Keywords: missionaries; rhodes; success
• An Overview of The Shandong Revival of 1927-1937 by Ndegwa, Andrew (2024) - Culturally, Shandong’s Lu cuisine is one of China’s eight great culinary traditions and can be traced back to over two millennia ago (China Daily Shandong, 2021), laying claim to being the oldest Chinese culinary tradition. Key Words: China, missionaries, revival, Shandong, Southern Baptist Introduction: Background of Shandong Province Situated on the shores of the Yellow Sea in East China, the area that is now Shandong Province has made major contributions to Chinese history. Keywords: china; chinese; culpepper; missionaries; monsen; revival; shandong; spirit

• Apostolic Faith in the Book of Acts by Hesselgrave, David J. (2013) - Other churches shy away from, and even downgrade creeds and doctrine. Within one generation, the gospel had been proclaimed and believers gathered in churches from Syrian Antioch to Illyricum in the vicinity of modern Trieste, and from Jerusalem to Rome and beyond. Keywords: acts; faith
• “A Simple Tongue’s Charts” - NIV by Alexander, Mick (2010) - We are told that “Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see ... hope that is seen is no hope at all ... we live by faith, not by sight” (Heb. 11:1; Rom. 8:24; 2 Cor. 5:7). Cor. 12:9 tells us that faith is one of the gifts to the church and like all the other gifts it will not continue on into eternity but will cease when we see Jesus. Keywords: faith; hope
• God of Promise: Introducing Covenant Theology by Kreitzer, Mark (2010) - Professor Michael Horton (Westminster Theological Seminary in California) is excellent on the covenant of creation (works) and covenant of grace distinction that underlies the Pauline doctrine of justification. It is because the Gospel of our Lord Jesus is so intertwined with the message of the biblical covenants that to attempt to separate and isolate the pure Gospel from either the legal covenant in the Garden or the covenant word promised to Abraham will destroy both Gospel and covenant. Keywords: covenant; faith; god; horton; law; mosaic; moses

• WINDOW C LEARNING FROM PEOPLE IN MINISTRY by Shaw, Georgia (2012) - Photos from top left: PRODOLA session in Peru 2007, Betty Sue’s mother Martha Green, Marit Landrø, Roberta King playing the thumb piano and singing with Hellen, 2nd row; Nancy Thomas, Pathways Africa 2012 photo, Charlene Poulos in cancer hospital, Juanita Evans Leonard, Betty Sue with Mongolian SOD 2008. 3rd row; Marguerite Kraft, SIS faculty 2012, lower row: Betsy Glanville and Sarah Kim 2012, Betsy Glanville teaching a DMiss cohort 2012, Marilyn Clinton and Christine Cervantes, SIS staff, and Betty Wagner founder of Wayfarers, Inc. Keywords: ministry
• WHAT DENOMINATIONAL LEADERS SHOULD KNOW BUT HAVE NEVER BEEN TOLD REGARDING INTERCULTURAL MINISTRIES by Thomas, T.V.; Wan, Enoch (2010) - A questionnaire (see Appendix) with fifteen open-ended questions was designed and distributed to dozens of ethnic workers for their input. Similarly, ethnic workers tend to place more focus on the intangible way of reward such as honor and shame. Keywords: caucasian; ministries; ministry; nac; self; table; way; workers
• Editorial - by J. Nelson Jennings by Jennings - GM-E Editor; Onnuri Church, Seoul: Mission Pastor, Consultant, Int'l Liaison, J. Nelson (2018) - Now that the gospel has been developing among peoples whose worldviews are inhabited by spiritual forces and other realities unknown to modern Europeans, new initiatives by Jesus’s followers among these more populated universes are giving rise to fresh currents in gospel ministry October 2018 Christianity's worldwide spread has brought forth fresh wellsprings of gospel ministry. Keywords: ministry
• KINGDOM BUILDING: SHORT-TERM MINISTRIES by Mayhugh, Paul (2010) - Believers, especially young believers, need to experience functional team doing spiritual ministry in a real missionary context. Published under “Reviews & Previews” at www.GlobalMissiology.org, January 2008 2 Shortly after beginning ministry in Macau, the Great Wall Ministries Team (GWM) had the privilege of hosting a Short-Term team of students from Western Conservative Baptist Seminary for six weeks. Keywords: ministry; team; term
• Factors That Contribute to or Impede Movements by Prinz, Emanuel (2025) - Conversely, effective movement catalysts apparently experience a lack of openness to the gospel as less of a problem than non-catalysts, even if they minister in similarly challenging contexts. First, the analysis shows that movement catalysts are not necessarily more effective in catalyzing movements because their contexts are “easier.” Keywords: catalysts; catalyzing; difference; factors; ministry; movement; non
• gme-36 by None (None) - Published under “Technology & Culture” at GlobalMissiology.org, October 2008 2 It would be easy for those of us who tend to welcome new technologies with enthusiasm to consider such sentiments to be unfortunate, misguided or incredibly anachronistic for anyone living in the 21st century. Pockets of resistance are forming, some individual and some institutional, to challenge the dominant notion that to resist the force of technology is, to call upon the wisdom of Senor Don Quixote, to “fight the unbeatable foe.” Keywords: ministry; storm; technology; today

• Orthoproxy: Ethical Storytelling in Cross-cultural Engagement - by M. Andrew Gale by Gale - Global Strategy: Executive Director, M. Andrew (2020) - Missions has utilized story throughout its history as a way to encourage both financial and physical support of global work. For years, missionaries, missions agencies, and local churches have told stories about the work God is doing around the world. Keywords: fernández; generation; global; language; millennials; nanko; stories; story; storytelling; work
• How Does a Global Missions Network Engage with the Younger Generation? - by Evi Rodemann, Nana Yaw Offei Awuku by Rodemann - Lausanne YLGen: Chair of Groups and Gatherings, Evi; Awuku - Lausanne YLGen: Director, Nana Yaw Offei (2020) - Busyness of Younger Leaders In addition to the four end-of-year annual surveys, a survey focused specifically on the availability and engagement of younger leaders was taken six months after the fourth survey, or 2.5 years after YLG 2016. Abstract In 2016, the Lausanne Movement launched a ten-year strategy of engaging with younger leaders globally called Lausanne Younger Leaders Generation (YLGen). Keywords: global; lausanne; leaders; leadership; movement; survey; ylg; ylgen
• Ryan Shaw, Rethinking Global Mobilization: Calling the Church to Her Core Identity by Rodemann, Evi (2022) - Mission mobilization is at a crossroad these days. So why does Shaw write another book on mission mobilization? Keywords: global; mobilization

• C1 Responding to God’s Call: Women Gifted For Cross–Cultural Missions by Kraft, Marguerite G. (2012) - Whereas men in the receptor society may fear their loss of position and power when a foreign male arrives, women are anxious to develop meaningful relationships with other women regardless of cultural differences. It has been very important to me to have meaningful relationships with other women. Keywords: god; husband; language; relationships; spiritual; women
• Review of The Languages of the World by Jaffarian, Michael (2010) - Part III is a country-by-country survey, with a few sentences about the main language or languages of each, or their linguistic makeup. Even a casual browsing gives the reader perspective on the linguistic diversity of humanity, good for the development of World Christian understanding. Keywords: language
• Language of Missions: Art Rooted in the Trinitarian Language of God - by Roger W. Lowther by Lowther - Community Arts Tokyo, Director: www.communityarts.jp, Roger W. (2019) - Language is intrinsic to God (ad intra) in the “self-contained ontological Trinity,” but it is also extrinsic to God (ad extra) in everything he has made. In order to understand how artists can communicate through music or painting or dance, we need to come to a broader understanding of language in non-verbal human behavior as it relates to the non-verbal communication of God. Keywords: art; communication; creation; god; language; things; trinity; word
• Language Anquish by Missiology, Global (2010) - During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary 'o' be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou' and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to oza kombinations of letas. As part of the negotiations Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in plan that would be known as Euro-English. Keywords: language; year

• A3 Adjusting To Change: When One’s Homeland Becomes The Foreign Land by Engen, Jean Van (2012) - Every week new students with no English speaking skills were enrolled in the school, which meant moving the most advanced students up and out of each level in order to make space for the newest students. Our children needed a mother who could help them make the transition to new things instead of one who was living in the past. Keywords: chuck; grief; mexico; school; teaching; time; work; years
• Non-residential Missionaries and National Equipping by Patterson, George; Aw, Ed and Rachel (2009) - The NRM is then able to come alongside this individual to facilitatea church planting movement. Aw Introduction A non-residential missionary (NRM) is a person who is not a long-term resident of his/her field of focus but has a long-term commitment. Keywords: national; nrm; work

• Review of The Holy Trinity: In Scripture, History, Theology, and Worship by Kreitzer, Mark R. (2010) - “A bifurcation between the economic Trinity and the immanent Trinity undermines our knowledge of God” (Letham 2004, 296). Microsoft Word - Trinity _Kreitzer_July_08_GM.doc The Holy Trinity: In Scripture, History, Theology, and Worship Robert Letham, Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2004. Keywords: father; god; letham; son; spirit; trinity

• What is the #NoPlaceLeft Movement and Why it Matters by Robinson, IV, George G. (2016) - And soon a virtual movement was afoot via what has become known as the #NoPlaceLeft Coalition. Dr. Dave Miller served on staff in a legacy church model but has more recently implemented a #NoPlaceLeft strategy planting a network of small catalytic churches in the Oklahoma City area. Keywords: context; movement; noplaceleft
• gme-2548 by None (None) - Table 2 below shows the trait and competency constructs that mark effective movement catalysts, sorted by self-rating by catalysts in descending order. Empirical studies have shown that leaders are universally marked by flexibility; apparently this is less true of effective movement catalysts. Keywords: catalysts; competencies; contributing; difference; factors; god; inhibiting; movement; traits
• An Elusive Consensus: Traits and Competencies of Movement Catalysts by Daniels, Gene; Prinz, Emanuel (2023) - 2 2 An Elusive Consensus: Traits and Competencies of Movement Catalysts Gene Daniels and Emanuel Prinz Published in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, July 2023 Abstract Mission literature that addresses the key characteristics of movement catalysts is for the most part based on personal observations and reflections. A systematic look at the evangelical literature that has been published on movement catalysts reveals this lack of clarity. Keywords: catalysts; competencies; lack; movement; publications; traits

• Knowledge Stewardship for Kingdom Impact (KSKI) Online Community by Jennings, Nelson (2018) - Community participants live and serve around the world, cover a wide range of experience, and are affiliated with numerous mission organizations and churches. Some topics are ongoing, including Introductions and Q&A. Other topics are specifically about knowledge stewardship and its components. Keywords: community; topics
• The Refugee Crisis and Foreign Involvement: The Case of CFCI in Costa Rica by McGill, Jenny (2020) - Costa Rica Population 202020 (Live)” “Costa Rica Pushes to End 21% Poverty Rate to Meet Development Goals” The Costa Rica Star website, https://news.co.cr/costa-rica-pushes-end-21-poverty-rate-meet-development-goals-2/51358 (accessed May 6, 2020). Keywords: aid; america; carpio; central; cfci; community; costa; costa rica; nicaragua; rica; u.s; united

• An Essay and Review by Presutta, David (2012) - 14 Presutta further charges that Scripture teaches that God created the heavens and earth out of a pre-existing “great deep” because “when God began to create the heavens and earth,” by calling light into existence, the “deep [already] existed before God began the creative process” (Presutta 2007, 66, 67). God creates heaven and earth to provide a stage upon which to play out the drama of his program of salvation for mankind—a program that begins with the creation of the cosmos and has its completion in the portended future annihilation of the cosmos. Keywords: bible; cosmology; cosmos; earth; god; hartnett; light; modernity; presutta; science; scripture; seely; sun; theory; time; universe; williams; word; worldview

• Talking to Muslims about God: What are the Issues? by Larson, Warren F. (2010) - His love is the mercy of a king, not the compassion of a father, and for this reason most Muslims cannot say: God is love. Talking to Muslims about God: what are the issues Talking to Muslims about God: What are the Issues?1 Warren F. Larson, Director, Zwemer Center for Muslim Studies, Columbia International University Published under “Featured Article” at www.globalmissiology.org, October 2007 Keywords: allah; christians; father; god; muslims; qur’an
• Christian Persecution and Suffering by Phillips, Prasad D R J (2024) - In answering that question, it is important to acknowledge that Christians’ perspectives and worldviews concerning persecution and suffering due to Christian faith and identity differ depending on the country and context. This array of approaches can also be instructive about how the theme of Christian persecution and suffering can be understood, practised, and articulated. Keywords: christians; persecution
• CHRISTIAN RESPONSES TO ‘A COMMON WORD’: Why I Signed the Yale Response by Chapman, Colin (2010) - By suggesting that ‘the Unity of God, the necessity of love for Him, and the necessity of love of the neighbour is … the common ground between Christianity 1 http://www.globalmissiology.org/ and Islam’, it seems to recognise that Christians acknowledge the oneness of God and might be genuine monotheists. ‘Taking other lords beside God’ is interpreted to mean that ‘Muslims, Christians and Jews should be free to each follow what God has commanded them, and not have “to prostrate before kings and the like” …’ Reasons for Cautious Or Critical Responses - The interpretation of several Qur’anic verses in ACW is significantly different from traditional interpretations. Keywords: acw; christians; god; muslims
• Unchristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity by Mcdowell, Sean (2012) - Disdain for evangelicals by young outsiders is overwhelming and negative (49 percent). Young outsiders have largely lost their respect for the Christian faith. Keywords: christians; outsiders

• Rescuing the Doctrine of Father-God from Contextualization Gone Awry:God and Time as a Test Case of Syncretism by Kreitzer, Mark R. (2016) - If God experiences succession in his being, then metaphysical time is “divine time.” . . . In doing so, God fully knows what is occurring in human time and space. Keywords: creation; diversity; divine; duration; eternity; everlasting; father; future; generations; god; human; meaning; past; philosophy; present; scripture; time; words; עולם

• Seven Days that Divide the World by McCullough, John Mark (2015) - They assume that they can also provide the accurate meaning of the pinpoints of light we see in our telescopes and their distance from the earth, that we can know that we on earth exist in a spiral shaped galaxy called the Milky Way, and so forth. http://ojs.globalmissiology.org/index.php/english/article/view/1634/3624 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._N._Wilson#cite_note-1 4 began to make this known, since these beginnings of what we call a ‘scientific’ viewpoint shook the foundations of an old religion which believed that God had put Adam in charge of all His earthly creation, and made Man in His own image and likeness; even, when Man had disobeyed Him, this self-same God had Himself become Man, and come down to earth to redeem Him of His sins. Keywords: center; creation; data; earth; god; lennox; light; luther; modernity; moving; philip; religion; science; scripture; stott; sun; system; theory; truth; universe; university; view; words; years
• Seven Days that Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science by Kreitzer, Mark (2016) - They assume that they can also provide the accurate meaning of the pinpoints of light we see in our telescopes and their distance from the earth, that we can know that we on earth exist in a spiral shaped galaxy called the Milky Way, and so forth. The Renaissance popes reacted furiously to the notion that the earth was not the centre of the universe, nor man the most important being on earth.[footnoteRef:9] There was logic in torturing Galileo,[footnoteRef:10] who first began to make this known, since these beginnings of what we call a ‘scientific’ viewpoint shook the foundations of an old religion which believed that God had put Adam in charge of all His earthly creation, and made Man in His own image and likeness; even, when Man had disobeyed Him, this self-same God had Himself become Man, and come down to earth to redeem Him of His sins. Keywords: center; creation; data; earth; god; lennox; luther; modernity; moving; philip; religion; science; scripture; stott; sun; system; theory; truth; universe; university; view; words; years
• Call for Papers: Prison and Religion in the Global South - by Tobias Brander by Brandner - Assoc Prof, Div Sch Chung Chi College, Chinese Univ of HK; tobiasbran@gmail.com, Tobias (2018) - Religion, gang culture, and penal community life · Conversion, conversion narratives, and deconversion in the penal context · Religious ministry in prison and its effectiveness in rehabilitation · Faith and adjustment to prison life · Religion and prison administration: convergences and tensions · State administration of religious affairs in prison · Religion, penal politics, and human rights · Comparative approaches to religious ministry in different penal contexts of the Global South · Chaplains and volunteers in prison ministry · Religion and restorative justice · Religious influences on penal ideologies · Religion and the death penalty · New Religious Movements in prison We invite contributions of original research with a maximum length of 8,000 words. For some religious groups, prisons offer an excellent ground for religious propagation and recruiting of followers. Keywords: prison; religion
• gme-3015 by None (None) - Scholars of religion, media, and diaspora such as Campbell and Golan (2011, p. 712) and Zaid et al. (2022) acknowledge that faith is not merely communicated through digital platforms: rather, it is also reshaped by them. African Christian migrants often use digital platforms to continue participating in worship, share spiritual reflections, follow religious leaders from home, and connect with fellow believers globally. Keywords: digital; identity; korea; media; religion; south; tiktok; ugandan
• PRE-PUBLICATION ANNOUCEMENT: “Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement” by Description, Product (2010) - Miles, Pulitzer Prize winner for God: A Biography Global Pentecostalism is immensely important, informative, and readable. -- Christian Smith, author of Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers Global Pentecostalism is beautifully written and friendly to an audience of practitioners as well as to academic and professional researchers. Keywords: pentecostalism; religion

• Review of Sharing your Faith with a Buddhist by Johnson Rethinasamy, Elwin (2010) - This book is an eye opener to learn how Buddhism is multifaceted in its theology, practice and understanding God according to regions, folk beliefs, socio, political and economic influences of Buddhism practiced nation-states of South Asia and South East Asia. For many of us, Buddhism is a one common religion predominantly in South Asia and South East Asian regions. Keywords: book; buddhism
• A Celtic Approach to Reaching Oral Learners: A Survey of the Oral and Visual Strategies used by the Jona Community ca. 600-800 by Smither, Edward (2014) - Employing many symbols and as many as fifty different animal figures, the Picts constructed gravestones as well as monuments to commemorate their history, including things like military victories.[footnoteRef:11] Henderson and Henderson have grouped Pictish stone art into three periods or classes that also coincide with their spiritual history. In the Class II period, the primary goal of Pictish stone art was to represent the cross, which the Hendersons regard as “a consequence of [their] conversion.” Keywords: art; book; columba; cross; pictish; picts
• gme-1824 by None (None) - This dependence serves as a key step for the development and implementation of mission strategy (15). The next large section of the book surveys various missions strategies throughout church history. Keywords: book; strategy; terry
• African Leadership Research by Yehling, Mary Kleine (2018) - It is practical help, not only to African Christian leaders but to many from outside the continent who are interested in partnering with, and lending support to, strategic African-led ministries and initiatives Augmented by Supportive On-Line Resources – All research data, along with the overall findings of the ALS team is available online, to serve as a seedbed resource for others as they seek factual research findings to underpin their decisions and plans, or carry out additional research. Would you like access to actual research that can confirm your own experience or bring new information to your attention that would deepen and broaden your understanding? Keywords: book; research
• Hanna Massad, Pastor from Gaza - by J. Nelson Jennings by Jennings - Onnuri Church: Mission Pastor, Consultant, Int'l Liaison; GME: Editor, J. Nelson (2019) - Especially since I know Hanna Massad personally, I can wholeheartedly recommend this readable book to anyone interested in Gaza and related matters. Book Review Hanna Massad, Pastor from Gaza Reviewed by J. Nelson Jennings Published in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, April 2019 Massad, Hanna (2018). Keywords: book
• Matt Rhodes, No Shortcut to Success: A Manifesto for Modern Missions by Coles, Dave (2022) - Strangely, all the positive examples of missionary success are drawn from at least 100 years ago. In ironic contrast, Rhodes acknowledges that the church planting models he labels as “shortcuts” (CPM and DMM) have in fact resulted in a “proliferation of success stories that fill bookstores” (41). Keywords: book; rhodes; success
• Devdutt Pattanaik, Eden: An Indian Exploration of Jewish, Christian and Islamic Lore by Manokaran, J. N. (2022) - Indeed, Pattanaik fails to see how the religious search that begins with man as the centre, and not God, is a central flaw in non-Abrahamic religions.  2 2 Book Review Devdutt Pattanaik, Eden: An Indian Exploration of Jewish, Christian and Islamic Lore Reviewed by J. N. Manokaran Published in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, October 2022 Pattanaik, Devdutt (2021). Keywords: author; book; god; lore; pattanaik
• Christopaganism or Indigenous Christianity: An Introduction by Yamamori, Tetsunao "Ted" (2010) - Third, the William S. Carter Symposium was planned to stir up interest at the College on missions and church growth and to introduce Milligan’s dream to the missiological world. When this dream was made known to them, Mr. and Mrs. William S. Carter of Dallas, Texas, provided a generous gift enabling us to carry the dream a step further. Keywords: book; carter; milligan; symposium
• Michael Lamb, A Commonwealth of Hope: Augustine’s Political Thought by Ndegwa, Andrew (2024) - In the ninth chapter, Lamb further strengthens his case for Augustinian hope by drawing from Augustine’s extensive correspondence with Roman officials, Catholic bishops, and friends who solicited spiritual as well political advice (203). In fact, Lamb notes that for Augustine evil is not an independent force but the “wrongful use of a good for improper ends (perversion)” (39). Keywords: augustine; book; hope; lamb
• Sam George and Askok Kumar, eds., Sharing Jesus with Hindus: Global Witness Among Hindu Diaspora by Phillips, Prasad D R J (2024) - This recent addition to the series edited by Sam George on Christians in diaspora missions is distinct for its singular focus on witnessing among diaspora Hindus. This unique focus on witnessing among diaspora Hindus will surely captivate the reader, providing a fresh perspective on Christian missions. Keywords: book; hindus
• Sadiri Joy Tira, ed., From Womb to Tomb: Generational Missiology in the 21st Century and Beyond by George, Sam (2025) - Older leaders must find mentors from younger generations and remain curious and teachable, even as they nurture other leaders. Leaders are called to continually nurture other leaders and pass on the mantel of leadership to others, who will in turn do the same. Keywords: book; leaders
• Emanuel Prinz, What Actually Starts Movements: Partnering with God for Kingdom Multiplication by Jennings, J. Nelson (2025) - Movement critics would bristle and might resist reading this well-researched work and thus fail to become further informed. 280, $19.99; ASIN: B0F5XVPLJG (e-book) $9.99. Keywords: book; movements
• REVIEW: PRACTICING HOSPITALITY: THE JOY OF SERVING OTHERS by Ennis, Pat; Tatlock, Lisa (2010) - In Hospitality and Management (ch. 4), Lisa gives tips even a busy woman can use to prepare her home for hospitality. OVERVIEW OF PRACTICING HOSPITALITY Having practiced hospitality for years, but not having read many books on the subject, I was very interested in reading Practicing Hospitality: The Joy of Serving Others co-authored by Drs. Keywords: book; god; home; hospitality
• Review of Dissident Discipleship by Johnson, Sherry A. (2010) - The first is focused on self-growth and self-enlightenment, and the second is focused almost entirely vertically by encouraging a deeper person Augsburger points out that this robust form of Christian spirituality has implications that extend well beyond the walls of the church. Those engaged in social ministries may find the lexicon associated with tripolar spirituality valuable in putting words to the grace they receive, and in discerning—and perhaps even repenting of—the inner motives for the service they render.... Augsburger gifts his readers with a 'radical alternative' that confronts and challenges, as well as affirms and instructs those who seek to deepen and balance their spiritual lives. Keywords: augsburger; book; discipleship; spirituality
• Elephant Treatise by Missiology, Global (2010) - The Pole presents a book called ‘The elephant and its relation to the Polish Problem’, while the Swede has a greyish book called Elefanter och hur man titulerar dem (‘Elephants and how to address them’). The Englishman has a small, sober, black leather-bound book entitled “Elephants I have shot”. Keywords: book
• gme-95 by None (None) - He calls for deep devotion, deep fellowship, attention to key evangelistic contacts (“men of peace”), network/family evangelism, and multiplication of house churches, with on-site leadership development, in church planting movements. It is a manifesto, a fresh call to spiritual commitment and world missions, with an outline of practical steps to follow, seeking to incite a decentralized and unfettered global movement of millions. Keywords: book

• Review of Scattered: The Filipino Global Presence by Exiomo, Jonathan (2010) - The book is a compendium of articles by different presenters of varied disciplines designed to address issues related to the phenomenon of diaspora in general and Filipino diaspora in particular in relation to the missiological mandate of Jesus Christ to the church. Articles 7 to 15 provide challenging answers in the forms of vision-filled organizations and structure that provide a network of resources for the Christian OFWs that should engage in the realization of the Great Commission. Keywords: articles; diaspora
• THREE STEPS ENGAGING THE DIASPORA IN CANADA IN CHRISTIAN MISSIONS by Wan, Enoch (2010) - For a case study on the First Filipino Church in Edmonton engaging in diaspora mission, see “Filipino International Network: A Strategic Model for Filipino Diaspora Glocal® Missions” by Sadiri Joy B. Tira Published in Global Missiology, Featured Article, October 2004, www.globalmissiology.net · Enoch Wan, Missions Within Reach: Intercultural Ministries in Canada. According to the projection of Statistics Canada, by 2031, approximately 28% of the population will be foreign-born. Keywords: canada; diaspora
• GLOBAL DIASPORA MISSIOLOGY CONSULTATION by Missiology, Global (2010) - Dr. Yamamori will address the topic “Business as Mission.” The convener of the event, Dr. Tetsunao Yamamori, will present a free public lecture at a chapel service on Thursday, November 16, at 9:30 AM. Keywords: diaspora; ph.d
• THE IDS SERIES ON “DIASPORA MISSIOLOGY” by Wan, Enoch (2014) - “Case Studies of Diaspora Missiology: Jew, Chinese and Filipino on the Move” - Dr. Enoch Wan., Dr. Twovya Zaretsky and Dr. Joy Tira (D.Miss. level – 3 credits) 2) “Business as Transformation: Principles and Practice of Holistic Mission” -- Dr. Ted Yamamori (M.A. or D.Miss. level – 3 credits) · Hosted the ASSOCIATES FOR DIASPORA, LCWE, January 3-5, 2008 in Portland, OR · “The Mission to Hindus in Diaspora” – Dr. Atul Aghamkar, summer 2009 (D.Miss. 3 credits) For more information about IDS: please contact Dr. Enoch Wan, Director of IDS at 503-517-1804 or e-mail ewan@westernseminary.edu LAUNCHING THE IDS SERIES (Available @ www.amazon.com - CreateSpace Store / BOOK) · Keywords: diaspora; enoch
• REVIEW OF A REFLECTION ON DIASPORA CROSS-CULTURAL EVANGELISM: AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE by Udall, Jessica A. (2015) - Urga laments that the great potential of Diaspora believers as evangelists—their faith, commitment to prayer, experience with persecution and boldness in witness—is often muted by culture shock and its resultant divisiveness, depression and insularity. He points the way forward for his immigrant brothers and sisters, transparently describing his journey and inviting them to join him on a path to thriving as cross-cultural witnesses who “desire a better country, that is a heavenly one” (Hebrews 11:6). Keywords: diaspora; urga
• GENTRIFICATION: IMPACT AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR URBAN DIASPORA MISSIOLOGY by Bryson, Johnathan W. (2017) - As opposed to other global gentrification movements gentrification in the west and in particular in the United States, does not seem to be concerned with absorbing the poor or accommodating the influx of diaspora groups who perhaps cannot pay the premium prices that accompany gentrification. GENTRIFICATION IN RECENT LITERATURE Research on the impact of gentrification on urban missiology or urban diaspora missiology is still limited. Keywords: areas; cities; city; diaspora; gentrification; housing; impact; march; resources; transportation; urban
• Call for Papers for October 2025 Special Issue: "Diaspora Communities: Relationships, Identities, Challenges, and Opportunities" by GME Editorial Team (2024) - Call for Papers: Diaspora Communities: Relationships, Identities, Challenges, and Opportunities For Publication in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, October 2025 The October 2025 issue of Global Missiology - English will examine an array of topics related to diaspora communities. The following topics—in particular case studies—are examples of requested articles: · Case Studies of Diaspora-Indigenous Relations · Case Studies of Changing Diaspora Identities · Case Studies of Generational Adjustments in Diaspora Communities · Case Studies of Revivals in Diaspora Communities · Case Studies of Diaspora Theological and Leadership Training · Other topics related to Diaspora Communities Proposed titles with approximately 100-word abstracts are due April 30, 2025. Keywords: diaspora
• Call for Papers for October 2025 Special Issue: "Diaspora Communities: Relationships, Identities, Challenges, and Opportunities" by GME Editorial Team (2025) - Call for Papers: Diaspora Communities: Relationships, Identities, Challenges, and Opportunities For Publication in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, October 2025 The October 2025 issue of Global Missiology - English will examine an array of topics related to diaspora communities. The following topics—in particular case studies—are examples of requested articles: · Case Studies of Diaspora-Indigenous Relations · Case Studies of Changing Diaspora Identities · Case Studies of Generational Adjustments in Diaspora Communities · Case Studies of Revivals in Diaspora Communities · Case Studies of Diaspora Theological and Leadership Training · Other topics related to Diaspora Communities Proposed titles with approximately 100-word abstracts are due May 31, 2025. Keywords: diaspora
• DIASPORA MINISTRY OPPORTUNITY AND CHALLENGE: THE CASE OF REFUGEE IN ITALY by Wan, Enoch (2011) - Other refugee emergency centres have been opened in other parts of Sicily and the rest of Italy. Below is the description from him of the “diaspora ministry opportunity and challenge” created by the flood of immigrants moving from North Africa into the southern part of Italy as a result of all of the unrest in North African and the Middle East. Keywords: diaspora; italy

• Call for Papers for January 2022 Special Issue: “Kingdom Movements” by Editorial Team, GME (2021) - Call for Papers: “Kingdom Movements” For Publication in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, January 2022 The January 2022 issue of Global Missiology - English will take up the increasingly discussed theme of “Kingdom Movements.” The following topics are examples of requested articles: · Review of recent literature on Kingdom Movements / Disciple-Making Movements · Contemporary Case Study · Historical Case Study · Biblical-theological Analysis · Missiological Analysis · Strategic Model Proposed titles with approximately 100-word abstracts are due June 15, 2021. Keywords: movements
• Aychi B. R. with Dave Coles, Living Fire: Advancing God's Kingdom in Challenging Places by Naylor, Mark (2025) - Abstract Living Fire: Advancing God's Kingdom in Challenging Places presents a detailed framework for initiating and sustaining Disciple Making Movements (DMM) among Unreached People Groups (UPG) in African contexts. Theological bases for DBS: The discussion of Discovery Bible Study (DBS) in chapter 17 and Appendix B is practical and aligns well with DMM practices in other parts of the world. Keywords: disciple; dmm; god; making; movements

• The Jerusalem Council & the Insider Movement Paradigm by Coleman, Doug (2014) - A Closer Look at IMP Views In the interest of representing IMP views as fairly as possible and further informing readers unfamiliar with IMP appeals to Acts 15, I would first like to note a few additional points stressed by IMP advocates. The implication, of course, is that just as God was working among Gentile believers in the first century, He is working among Insider believers today, and this activity of God should play a significant (perhaps even primary?) role in adjudicating the question of whether these movements are valid. Keywords: acts; believers; council; gentiles; god; ibid; imp; insider; prohibitions; witherington

• Tritheism and Christian Faith by Smith, Ralph Allan (2010) - At least five uses of the term tritheism are possible, some of which may overlap[1]: 1) the crude postulation of three deities; 2) the Arian notion of God; 3) the denial of the doctrines of the eternal generation of the Son and the procession of the Spirit; 4) holding Enlightenment views of personhood; 5) certain forms of social trinitarianism. Ancient Monarchianism included a group that held to a form of tritheism in which God was said to have three natures so that the three persons are treated as individuals of a species. Keywords: father; god; persons; son; trinity; tritheism

• NATIONAL IDENTITY IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA PART 1: A FRAMEWORK FOR EXPLORATION by Vanderwerf, Mark (2010) - An accompanying paper demonstrates a rudimentary use of the first paradigm to contrast and compare ethnic national identity as it currently exists in Bosnia-Herzegovina with civic national identity as it existed in Socialist Bosnia-Herzegovina. A good grasp of the dynamics of national identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina will help missionaries in the work of evangelism and discipleship. Keywords: bosnia; herzegovina; identity; level; model; nation; paradigm
• Friendship and Identification on Multicultural Fields by Lewis, Fred (2020) - Where SIT studies social identities, Self-Categorization Theory (SCT) focuses on how individuals come to consider themselves to be group members. While we tend to assume that friendship with an existing member of a group precedes joining it, SCT recognizes that at least sometimes friendship among group members may be a result of group membership. Keywords: field; friendship; group; identities; identity; individual; mcf; members

• Essay and Review Genesis 1-4: A Linguistic, Literary, and Theological Commentary by Kreitzer, Rev. Mark (2011) - Second, the Bible teaches the genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11 are indeed following a father-son line, different from other biblical genealogies. � C. John Collins cites Hasel but does not interact with nor attempt to refute his argument (Collins 2004, 203-207). Keywords: account; age; collins; creation; days; earth; genealogies; genesis; god; hasel; scripture; son; years

• Cross-Cultural Understanding of Power in Servant Leadership Theory: Comparing the Concept of Empowerment and its Implications upon Servant Leadership Theory as Applied in South Africa and the United States by Mumley, William E. (2010) - The connection of servant leadership with the indigenous values of Ubuntu represents a significant breakthrough in the potential of servant leadership theory throughout Africa. A leadership theory that appears to be gaining increasing global credibility is servant leadership (Spears, 2004). Keywords: africa; empowerment; leadership; servant; south; theory
• Book Review: Robert J. Priest and Kirimi Barine, eds., "African Christian Leadership: Realities, Opportunities and Impact" - by Wanjiru M. Gitau by Gitau - Author, "Megachurch Christianity Reconsidered" (IVP 2018); GM-E Ed Team Mbr, Wanjiru M. (2018) - All of the details of these multi-year processes are narrated in the book, and research instruments and responses are presented as appendixes in the book as well as a web-based Resources Seedbed, accessible at http://www.africaleadershipstudy.org/. The final book, entitled Africa Christian Leadership: Realities, Opportunities and Impact, is structured in 12 richly detailed chapters that are carefully curated out of the data. Africa Leadership Survey shows how the processes of funding, creativity of research design, collaborative networking and production of world-class knowledge are possible. Keywords: africa; leadership; research

• Dreams and Visions: Is Jesus Awakening the Muslim World by Kreitzer, Mark (2015) - As powerful as [they]…are, though, they are just the door opener for most Muslims, the starting point for conversion (Doyle 2012, 127). Tom Doyle with Greg Webster Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2012. Reviewed by Mark R. Kreitzer, DMiss, PhD Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Mission, Director International MDiv (English) Kosin University, Busan, South Korea Published in Global Missiology, January 2015 @ www.globalmissiology.org ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– This outstanding book is built around a series of accounts of dreams, visionary encounters, and dynamic healings from Isa al Masih that Muslims—including some in Mecca, Saudi Arabia itself—have experienced that has drawn them to Christ. Keywords: doyle; muslim
• April Editorial by Wan, Enoch (2017) - In this issue, we invited professional workers in Muslim ministry to aid GM-English readers in their understanding. Editorial: Within the contemporary context of our time, in multiple ways (i.e. politics, religion, etc.) Keywords: muslim

• Biblical Feelings And Emotions by Dahms, John V. (2010) - And R. Mohrlang has pointed out that for Paul love for others include(s) a sense of genuine care and compassion and brotherly affection.13 Bultmann's assertion quoted above fails to give due consideration to the paradoxical nature of love. Certainly such love is different from love for God and for humanity, but, if love for God and for humanity were not fundamentally a feeling, not all of these could be called love. Keywords: feelings; god; john; joy; love; luke; peace; testament

• What God is doing in China Recently by Bollback, Anthony (2010) - What God is doing in China Recently Anthony Bollback - pj@bollback.com (source: www.ChurchInChina.com) Published in www.GlobalMissiology.org  “Spiritual Dynamics” - January 2010. THE HMONG OR MIAO PEOPLE OF CHINA<<>> The Hmong or Miao people of <> numbering 9,000,000. Keywords: china
• China's Next Generation: New Church, New China, New World by Bush, Luis; Fulton, Brent; in China, A Christian Worker (2013) - China's Next Generation: New Church, New China, New World Luis Bush, Brent Fulton & A Christian Worker in China Download Keywords: china
• Andrew T. Kaiser, Encountering China: The Evolution of Timothy Richard’s Missionary Thought (1870-1891) - by. J. Nelson Jennings by Jennings - Onnuri Church: Mission Pastor, Consultant, International Liaison; GME: Editor, J. Nelson (2019) - While appropriately scholarly, the book reads smoothly through its introduction and three parts - coherently organized as Richard Encountering China, Richard Encountering Famine, and Richard Encountering Conflict. 2 Book Review Andrew T. Kaiser, Encountering China: The Evolution of Timothy Richard’s Missionary Thought (1870-1891) Reviewed by J. Nelson Jennings Published in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, July 2019 Kaiser, Andrew T. (2019). Keywords: china; richard
• China Clippings by Bollback, Anthony (2010) - Microsoft Word - SD-#2-China Clippings.doc China Clippings Anthony Bollback Retired Alliance missionary to China, and district superintendent (The monthly newsletter, June 2007, edited by Anthony Bollback with the latest news of events happening in China today) (PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO YOUR PASTOR AND MISSION LEADER) They live and work in Central Asia, and countries with such strange names as Uzbekistan, Kyrgystan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Bhutan, the Maldives, and the more familiar ones like China, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Algeria, Morocco, and other countries of North Africa. Keywords: bibles; china; god; word

• gme-313 by None (None) - In the opening paper, Alister McGrath emphasises the fundamental mystery of trinitarian dogma: “The doctrine of the Trinity represents a chastened admission that we are unable to master God” (p. 20). Timothy George highlights the significance of the doctrine of the Trinity for inter-faith dialogue between Christianity and Islam, and Ellen Charry seeks to revive the notion of the divine perfections by emphasising their practical and soteriological significance. Keywords: doctrine; trinity
• TRINITY : INFINITY AND AFFINITY by Grant, Paul E. (2010) - TRINITY : INFINITY AND AFFINITY TRINITY : INFINITY AND AFFINITY Kinship With a Boundless God A lifetime of probing and wondering, Searching, praying, and examining, On a quest for form and meaning Of the nature of the Trinity It’s been a special odyssey To comprehend this mystery, To gain a personal mastery Of God’s essential nature I was baffled yet attracted And frequently reacted, Also powerfully impacted By its complexities As I reflect in retrospect I detect a serious defect, The failure of the intellect To comprehend the infinite Logic cannot measure the boundless Nor reason accommodate the limitless, How to handle the measureless Became for me the issue Time and again I was taken aback When coming to terms with my lack Each time I sought to unpack This doctrine of the Trinity I found the issue of special mention, That heavenly education Is given by the Spirit’s tuition, That understanding comes by faith This means that revelation Must be allowed its intention To transform the mind’s dimension In producing true understanding Trinity’s meaning is shown in fullness Through the coming and work of Jesus, His life and teachings are the genesis Of discovering Divine togetherness The Gospels are a facility For engaging with the Trinity, Keywords: trinity

• Old-Earth Creationism on Trial: The Verdict Is In Tim Chaffey and Jason Lisle by Kreitzer, Mark R. (2013) - REVIEW & PREVIEW  Old-Earth Creationism on Trial: The Verdict Is In Tim Chaffey and Jason Lisle  Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2008   Reviewed by Mark R. Kreitzer, D.Miss., Ph.D. Director, International M.Div. In this volume, Jason Lisle is the scientific authority, while Tim Chaffey is the writer and editor. Keywords: earth; lisle; scripture

• Statistics on Islam: Some True, Some False, Some Way False by Jaffarian, Michael (2010) - � � �� “4. I got my information from several sources including the following books: � � Unveiling Islam by Ergun & Amir Caner � Inside Islam by Reza Safa � Deceiving A Nation by Douglas Layton”� � � � Keywords: islam
• Sharing your Faith to Believers of Islam by Gardner, Richard (2010) - Unveiling Islam. These two factors make it increasingly important for Muslims to be reached for Christ, and all the more essential that people who share their faith to Muslims be educated in the basic tenets of Islam and how to effectively reach them for the Lord. Keywords: allah; god; islam; muslims
• Book Review: Duane Alexander Miller, "Two Stories of Everything: The Competing Metanarratives of Islam and Christianity" - by Don C. Warrington by Warrington - adjunct UTenn@Chatt; Lay Ministries Coord Church of God, Cleveland, Tenn, Don C. (2018) - Book Review Book Review Duane Alexander Miller, Two Stories of Everything: The Competing Metanarratives of Islam and Christianity Reviewed by Don C. Miller, on the pastoral staff at the Anglican Cathedral of the Redeemer and an adjunct faculty member at the Protestant Faculty of Theology at Madrid, Spain, has left the usual approaches behind to paint a broad picture of Islam and Christianity as metanarratives, as ways of explaining the course of history from its beginnings to its end. Keywords: islam; miller
• FIRST-PERSON: Are God & Allah the same? by Caner, Emir (2010) - My Muslim mind would have interpreted such folly as insisting that Muhammad did receive at least some of his revelation from the one, true God -- that in some ways he was a true prophet. FIRST-PERSON: Are God & Allah the same FIRST-PERSON: Keywords: allah; baal; god; islam

• Global Missiology Humor Part 1 by Wan, Enoch (2013) - When the book came out, the section on Great Uncle Clarence read: “Great Uncle Clarence occupied a chair of applied electronics at an important government institution. Much to their horror, it was discovered that Great Uncle Clarence had been executed in the electric chair for committing murder. Keywords: family

• Editorial by G. Robinson, George (2014) - EDITORIAL: “CONVICTION OR COMPROMISE IN MISSIONARY METHODS?” By George G. Robinson Published in Global Missiology, October 2014 @ www.globalmissiology.org ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– “Too slow and introspective!” Blessed to be a blessing, George G. Robinson (D.Missiology) Assistant Editor, Global Missiology Associate Professor of Missions & Evangelism Headrick Chair of World Missions Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Keywords: conviction; theological
• Reaching and Teaching: A Call to Great Commission Obedience by Sills, David (2010) - This transfer of emphasis eventual lead to the current stress upon “unreached people groups” that is currently held by the majority of mission agencies. Before theological training of the nations can take place, the theological training of missionaries must be given more serious consideration. Keywords: sills; theological; training

• COME QUICKLY DAWN: A Training Novel by Currah, Galen (2013) - A Training Novel George Patterson, William Carey Library, 2012 Reviewed by Galen Currah Published in www.GlobalMissiology.org Jan 2013 George Patterson remains widely known to international missionaries for his teaching, training and writing. Keywords: novel; training
• Community Vision International: Watching Jesus multiply little loaves by Reves, Richard J. (2010) - God is now transforming needy communities through those we enable… In Africa—coordinating care of 12 million AIDs orphans; training Burundi’s, Kenya’s and Rwanda’s Christian leaders to help three million abandoned widows to be self-sustaining; training to multiply discipleship communities; arranging USA-African school partnerships; managing a grade school and Bible club in Madagascar; and developing training materials. In Hispano America—coming alongside hurting families and needy children in Ecuador and Peru; training pastors and church workers to multiply discipleship communities in Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru; and training USA Hispanic community leaders to lead, serve and multiply services within their communities. Keywords: communities; cvi; god; training

• Technology in Spiritual Transformation by Stewart, Jim (2010) - Today, with that concern largely resolved, the comments are more like this: “Yes, technologies can be useful for the cognitive learning outcomes, but they cannot do what a teacher can, they cannot do spiritual transformation.” Our seminary, as part of its mission statement, says that the school is to be a “catalyst and resource for spiritual transformation.” Keywords: education; teacher; technology; transformation
• Leadership Journals on the Internet - Free Full Text Journals Outline by Jaeger, John (2010) - Higher Education 80 History 84 Human Resources 92 Humanities (General) 93 Law 94 Leadership 97 Library and Information Science 100 Linguistics 110 Literature 115 Management 125 3 Marketing 127 Mathematics 127 Military 135 Music 137 Nursing 140 Parapsychology 142 Philosophy 143 Physical Education 148 Political Science 151 Psychology 160 Religion 163 Science (General) 174 Sociology 176 Statistics 182 (Microsoft Word - GM Leadership Journals on the Internet -outline 9 07 GGS.d\241K) 1 Free Online Publications - Listing Edited by Dr. John Jaeger - Dallas Baptist University Published under “Review & Preview” at www.globalmissiology.org, October 2007 Table of Contents Accounting 1 Archaeology 2 Architecture 4 Art 6 Astronomy 12 Banking 12 Biology 14 Book Reviews 19 Business 20 Chemistry 25 Communication 26 Computing and Technology 31 Country Studies 36 Criminal Justice 39 Distance Education 40 Leadership Journals on the Internet Free Full Text Journals Outline 2 Drama/Theater 42 Economics 43 Education 45 English as a Second Language 61 Ethics 62 Ethnology/Anthropology 65 Film 68 Geography 69 Geology 70 Health and Medicine 74 Keywords: education
• Theological Education and Mission by Tseng, Gloria S. (2023) - “A Giant on Clay Legs” by Christopher Howles considers the challenges faced by institutions of theological education in Africa and argues for a missiocentric paradigm of theological training. Institutions of theological education play an important role in equipping the people of God to carry out the educational mandate. Keywords: education; institutions

• Urbanisation, Change and Christian Mission in the Indian Context: A Study of the Changes in the Educated Middle-Class Hindus by Kolhar, Sunil F. (2020) - Overall, this study’s research findings indicate that, though urbanisation and other related factors do not seem to have affected the educated middle-class Hindu in a comprehensive or consistent way, there is certainly some change in the way they perceive and relate to people of other caste, religion, and customs. Hence the last hundred years has seen a great increase in caste solidarity and a concomitant decrease of a sense of interdependence that had developed between different castes living in the same region (Srinivas 1962, 74-75). Keywords: caste; changes; class; hindu; india; society; system; urban
• Kingdom Movements among Internal Migrants to Indian Cities by Kolhar, Sunil F. (2022) - Yagnik and Sheth report that a study done in 1997-1998 indicates that the informal sector grew faster than the formal sector: out of the 1.5 million workers in Ahmedabad city, 1.15 million worked in the informal sector (Yagnik and Sheth 2011, 303). It is these poor migrants that are responding to the gospel in Ahmedabad and several other cities of India. Keywords: ahmedabad; caste; city; india; migrants; migration; new; population

• gme-80 by None (None) - Christian Instrumentalist Interdisciplinarity (Kraft 1979) Clarkian Interdisciplinarity (Clark 1988) Theistic Critical Realist Interdisciplinarity (Hiebert 1999) Vantillian Interdisciplinarity (3) (Poythress 1976; Rushdoony 1978) Vantillian Interdisciplinarity (1) (Bahnsen 1998, see Stoker 1969; 1971) ���������� �� ���� ����� ��� ����� �������� �� ����� �� ���� ����� ��� ����������� �������� � � ��� ��������� ��� ��� ���� ����� ��� ���� ������������� ���� ���!������ � #������� �� ��$%&�� � �� ���� ����� ��� ��� �'�� ����������(����� �����������)�������� � *��+�� �� ���� ����� ��� �� � ����� �� �� ���%&����� , � ��� �+ �-���.�� /� � �0� �1#������� � � ,2 �� � �1324�� �0� � � ��� � � ��� �� �� ��� � � (���� � �� #0������� �� �0�� ��� �� &����������� The Many Fig. Philosophical Presuppositions of ��������� ����� In missiological circles, some are now also claiming that a radical (see e.g., Kraft 1979)xvi or a more moderate and biblical (Hiebert 1999)xvii form of ���������������� is a middle ground be- tween the two extremes of naïve realism (positivism and empiricism) and idealism. Keywords: + �; creator; data; dttc; facts �; human; huyssteen; knowledge; realism; truth; van; � +; � foundationalist; � god; � man; � objective; � ri; � �

• September 2006 Prayer Calender by Inc., AFC (2010) - Pray for physical health, good com- munication at home, strength and re- newed passion to do their work and to serve Him. 24 Please pray for AFC ministry staff to have an adequate circle of friends for the support of their ministry. 27 Violet Chen, Bo Cheng, Mona Caris, Betty Erickson, Betty Gast, Gretta Groff, Jane Hostetter, Janet Leaman, Grace Lo, and Nancy Martin serve as volunteers with AFC ministry at the AFC headquarters. Keywords: afc; chinese; lord; new
• Jeremiah 29:4-7 and Immigrant Ministry by Ki, William (2010) - THE TEXT - Jeremiah 29:4-7 In the Bible, the Torah speaks explicitly on immigrants, or aliens. Though return and restoration would eventually come, in the meantime, as immigrants to the land, they would conduct their normal day-to-day activities. Keywords: city; god; immigrants; lord; welfare

• W. Jay Moon and W. Bud Simon, Effective Intercultural Evangelism: Good News in a Diverse World by Manokaran, J. N. (2022) - Paul Hiebert, who explained Westerners’ “excluded middle,” writes: 1) Examine worldviews; 2) Be exposed to other worldviews; 3) Create living rituals. The table below gives an overall understanding of evangelism among worldviews: Worldview Guilt/Justice Shame/Honour Fear/Power Indifference/Belonging with Purpose Typical Location West (North America/Europe) East (Middle East, N. Africa, Asia) Keywords: evangelism; guilt; power; shame; worldview
• A NEW PUBLICATION ABOUT JEWISH EVANGELISM by Zaretsky, Tuvya (2010) - When the Gospel message is proclaimed to the Jewish people, it is called Jewish evangelism. The missiological challenge of Jewish evangelism is in contextualizing the Gospel for an ethnically diverse and internationally dispersed people. Keywords: evangelism; jewish

• To Dialogue or Not to Dialogue: That is the Question by Oksnevad, Roy (2010) - These topics are recognized in the Amman Message (http://ammanmessage.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=91&Itemid=74), which tries to defend itself from this very common practice of judging other Muslims as infidels. Moderate Muslims need to dialogue with the world for their very survival. Keywords: dialogue; muslims

• The Four Worlds Model and the Urban Church by Rosado, Caleb (2010) - In this article I will introduce a conceptual model for understanding today’s urban world and the challenges that such an understanding poses for missiology in an urban context. The same can be said of the theologies, urban theories, and methodologies of ministry that emerge to meet the challenge of urban ministry. Keywords: context; east; god; model; understanding; urban; west; wholeness; worlds

• Obituary, Paul Hiebert by Unknown, Author (2010) - Microsoft Word - Hiebert-Obituary.doc Obituary The Rev. Dr. Paul G. Hiebert, missiologist and missionary to India, has died of cancer on March 11, 2007 at the age of 74. In Loving Memory Paul G. Hiebert Keywords: anthropology; hiebert
• A LIFE WELL LIVED by Steele, Terry (2010) - When I called Dr. Mary Wilder last week to give her the news of Dr. Hiebert’s passing, she commented, “That must have been a glorious homecoming.” Two years ago during a difficult period of time, I discovered Western Seminary was offering a class from Dr. Hiebert on Folk Religions. Keywords: hiebert
• THANKS TO PAUL HIEBERT by Jaffarian, Michael (2010) - Operation World Thanks to Paul Hiebert, my wife and I are still missionaries today, instead of selling automobiles. But when both of those occasions came, we remembered one piece of wise advice from Paul Hiebert, from our time under his teaching at the Fuller (then) School of World Mission. Keywords: hiebert

• MISSIOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS OF DAVID HESSELGRAVE Teaching “Kingdom of God” in Missionary Context by Hesselgrave, David (2013) - In one of those temptations, Satan showed Jesus the greatness and glory of earthly kingdoms and offered them to him if he would simply bow down and worship Satan (Matt. 4:9). Special Copy Paper Template for Word 97 2 MISSIOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS OF DAVID HESSELGRAVE Teaching “Kingdom of God” in Missionary Context David Keywords: kingdom

• gme-1219 by None (None) - The kingdom to come is immeasurable Beyond the dimensions of science, New worlds will exceed the incredible With Jesus, an eternal alliance A calling to ministry is a continuum So no one can ever “retire”, Service in which we are now engaged Will be enhanced when we go higher Daniel was faithful for ninety years And assured of a personal function In worlds to come at the end of the days, A heritage of eternal unction (Paul E. Grant 1.2007; Revised 5.2007) � Isaiah 14:12f; Keywords: creation
• THE GREAT COMMISSION AS CREATIONAL RESTORATIVE COVENANT by Wilson, Cory (2010) - In addition to this, the usage of Great Commission conveys a disconnect from the rest of the biblical narrative as it fails to communicate the ultimate purpose of the commission in light of the whole of scripture - a purpose that points to the restoration of creational design norms. It will be shown that the eternal purposes of God are clearly set forth in the creation account and that the unfolding of the Biblical revelation shows God’s active role in restoring the creational design norms that were corrupted following the Fall. Keywords: commission; covenant; creation; god; man; purpose

• CROSS-CULTURAL HUMOR by Hedinger, Karen (2017) - Class started before I got here. ____________________________________ TEACHER: JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables. __________________________________________ TEACHER: Keywords: man; teacher

• Review : Communicating Across Cultures by Ruark, Torin (2010) - The book applies this theory to cross-cultural communication, conflict resolution, and cultural adaptation. The challenge of cross-cultural communication is ensuring that all parties feel their needs are being met through the communication process. Keywords: communication; ting
• gme-6 by None (None) - It provides some of the necessary factors to communicate effectively; what we do with such knowledge is the next step towards effective intercultural communication. This article seeks to introduce one main theory on effective ICC: Gudykunst’s Anxiety/Uncertainty Management (AUM) theory of effective communication. Keywords: anxiety; communication; gudykunst; theory; uncertainty

• Honor-Shame Cultural Theory: Antecedents and Origins - by Walter "Bud" Simon by Simon - PhD Student, Asbury Theological Seminary; TMS Global, Mission, Walter "Bud" (2018) - She explained that shame cultures depend on external sanctions to establish good behavior while guilt cultures depend on internal conviction of sin (Benedict 1946:223). Benedict and Mead differentiated cultures based on the relevant social controls by observing that shame cultures used external social sanctions and guilt cultures used internal social sanctions (Wiher 2003:106). Keywords: benedict; boas; cultural; cultures; honor; mead; relativism; shame
• gme-2427 by None (None) - This book contains a veritable smorgasbord of topics related to honor and shame, contained in 15 articles. Not many volumes on honor-shame will cover the breadth of these articles, whose topics include honor and shame in historical theology, a proposal for a grand narrative of scripture incorporating four value systems, and suggestions for a sensitive re-framing of the doctrine of substitutionary atonement. Keywords: honor

• PRAYER CHANGES VIOLENT TOWNSHIPS IN SOUTH AFRICA by Peter Sekhonyane, www.joelnews.org, (2010) - For three weeks he intensively trained Christians of all churches on prayer and the principles of 24-hour prayer. Prayer is taken to the people and some are being prayed for in their homes! Keywords: peter; prayer
• The Awesome Ways of God: The Movement, “America, Return to God,” Partnershiping with London by Thomas, Bill (2010) - September 1, 2006 America, Return To God Prayer Rally GCCI, in cooperation with churches in nine cities, is organizing “America, Return To God Prayer Rallies” to call America return to God. America, Return To God Prayer Rally Keywords: america; god; prayer; return
• HOW TO PRAY FOR PERSECUTED BELIEVERS by McClung, Grant (2011) - 6. Pray Strategically – The renowned evangelist D. L. Moody claimed that, “Every work of God can be traced to some kneeling form.” When we sincerely make ourselves available to plead with God on behalf of persecuted believers, the Holy Spirit will take us seriously and spontaneously lead us praying for the persecuted. Keywords: god; prayer; praying; suffering

• Finding Our Way with Technology by Stewart, James (2010) - I am one who welcomes change, loves the potential that new technologies represent, but recognizes that we still have much to learn about how to integrate new systems into our contemporary cultural context. I love gadgets of every sort, and eagerly search the popular and professional literature for the next generation of technologies that will change our lives, perhaps to a degree and in a direction yet unimagined. Keywords: god; science; technologies; technology
• Technology Desire vis-a-vis Technology Need by Stewart, James (2010) - (This is, in fact, an issue we faced recently in our distance education program as we added new video courses and updated several others. We too often feel the moral freedom to underscore our need for new tools by proving to those who are responsible for budgeting and acquisition that we cannot function well without them and our output suffers. Keywords: camera; definition; technology; video
• Finding Our Way with Technology by Stewart, Jim (2010) - I am one who welcomes change, loves the potential that new technologies represent, but recognizes that we still have much to learn about how to integrate new systems into our contemporary cultural context. I love gadgets of every sort, and eagerly search the popular and professional literature for the next generation of technologies that will change our lives, perhaps to a degree and in a direction yet unimagined. Keywords: god; science; technologies; technology
• The Impact of Technology on Culture: Rant or Rave? by Stewart, Jim (2010) - Closing Remarks That technology has been instrumental in the breaking down of cultural distinctives, what I have referred to as the homogenizing effect of technology, is beyond dispute. Certainly technology has been a homogenizing agent, but one could also make the case that technology is helping to differentiate, preserve and strengthen cultural identity. Keywords: resources; technology; web

• gme-69 by None (None) - 2,250 USD from Central Baptist Church, Bearden, TN. 1,750 USD from Hartford Baptist Church, England. 3,055 USD from other donors. Dr. Baker served as pastor of the Nazareth Baptist Church, Director of Church planting and Bible teacher in Nazareth and throughout the Galilee region. Keywords: baptist; house; usd

• gme-817 by None (None) - Likewise, as Adam’s descendants (image bearers) fill the earth, as priest-kings they will extend the temple-garden and the reign of God. These are clear indications that the arrival of the kingdom of God was the restoration of man to his rightful position as image bearer mediating the reign of God. Keywords: earth; genesis; god; image; new

• Chang Seop Kang, Conversion of Chinese Students in Korea To Evangelical Christianity: Factors, Process, and Types by Jennings, J. Nelson (2022) - An enlightening sub-section on comparisons with previous studies on Chinese conversions in North America (as well as in China) follows. First is the clearly focused subject matter: characteristics of conversions to evangelical Christianity of Chinese students in South Korea. Keywords: kang; students
• Eyewitness Accounts of the “Asbury Outpouring” by GME; Pachuau, Lalsangkima; Keener, Craig S. (2023) - In light of this issue’s emphasis on “Theological Education and Mission,” the Global Missiology – English (GME) editorial team thought it important to include something about the widely known events that began in early February following a regularly scheduled Asbury University chapel service in Asbury, Kentucky, USA. In view of Asbury’s history, the national organizers had chosen Asbury University as the host campus months earlier. Keywords: asbury; chapel; experience; god; revival; students; university
• “The Asbury Outpouring” of February 2023: A Follow-up Report by Jennings, J. Nelson (2024) - Select attempts by Asbury University administrators, faculty, staff, and students to interpret and explain various aspects of the Outpouring are scattered on the internet for those wishing to explore further nuances of how Asbury has followed up on the events of February 2023 (for two also linked on Asbury’s “Outpouring” web page, see Brown, 2024 and McCracken, K. 2024). News of the ongoing worship, fellowship, and fervency among Asbury students spread widely through social media, and thousands from around the United States and beyond traveled to Wilmore to see for themselves and take part. Keywords: asbury; asbury university; february; god; outpouring; revival; students; university

• Editorial by Wan, Enoch (2016) - It might be controversial to some; yet we have chosen it as the theme for this issue with papers from Jim Harris and Jean Johnson to address it. VOL 2, NO 13 (2016): April Editorial Dr. Enoch Wan The release of this issue is on “April Fools' Day” – the week of Easter Sunday of 2016. Keywords: april

• gme-224 by None (None) - Update on Ralph Winter Dear Friends, Ralph entered hospice care at home yesterday afternoon. While Ralph's body was being prepared by the hospice nurse they moved to the front lawn, joined by still more folks, and sang hymns of victory over death, shared stories, read Scripture and prayed as he was moved from the house to the waiting transport vehicle. Keywords: barb; evening; ralph
• A TRIBUTE TO DR. RALPH WINTER by Yamamori, Tetsunao (2010) - He was also a missionary statesman who helped engineer a paradigm shift from going to all the countries of the world to people groups without which the Great Commission mission would not be accomplished. Tetsunao Yamamori President/CEO, WorldServe Ministries and Research Consultant, PCRI John Templeton Foundation and Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California Published in the July 2009 issue of the multi-lingual online journal www.GlobalMissiology.org Keywords: ralph
• My Tribute to Dr. Ralph Winter by Hedlund, Roger E. (2010) - Microsoft Word - Roger E. Hedlund.doc My Tribute to Dr. Ralph WinterMy Tribute to Dr. Ralph WinterMy Tribute to Dr. Ralph WinterMy Tribute to Dr. Ralph Winter Roger E. Hedlund Professor, Mylapore Institute for Indigenous Studies, Chennai (Madras), India My earliest interaction with Ralph Winter was at Fuller Seminary in 1969-70 when I was doing an M.A. in the School of World Mission (as it was then known). Once that I know of, Ralph Winter forgot about our final exam. Keywords: ralph
• My Tribute to Ralph Winter by Middleton, Vern (2010) - Microsoft Word - Vern Middleton.doc My Tribute to Ralph WinterMy Tribute to Ralph WinterMy Tribute to Ralph WinterMy Tribute to Ralph Winter Vern Middleton Professor, Northwest Baptist Seminary, Langley, BC, Canada Ralph was my professor of Mission History during the school year 1971-72. Ralph was recruited to the faculty of the School of World Missions soon after it began in 1965. Keywords: ralph
• A TRIBUTE TO RALPH WINTER by Kraft, Charles H. (2010) - On one occasion, then, Tippett introduced Ralph as the author of the book, “The Twenty Five Years” by “the unbelievable Ralph Winter!” Etc., Etc., Etc. I first met Ralph at a missionary training institute in about 1956, before we went to Nigeria as missionaries, then again at Urbana in 1967 while I was teaching at Michigan State University and he had just begun regular teaching at Fuller. Keywords: ralph; teaching; winter

• Call for Papers for April 2025 Special Issue: "Lausanne IV: Reviews, Analyses, and Projections" by GME Editorial Team (2024) - Call for Papers: “Lausanne IV: Reviews, Analyses, and Projections” For Publication in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, April 2025 The April 2025 issue of Global Missiology - English will examine the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, or “Seoul-Incheon 2024,” that will have taken place in September, 2024. The Lausanne Movement and the Worldwide Christian Movement · Preparations for the Lausanne IV Congress · Participant Experience of Lausanne IV · Analyses of Lausanne IV: Historical, Biblical-theological, Missiological, Religious, Socio-economic, Political · Immediate and Future Effects of Lausanne IV Proposed titles with approximately 100-word abstracts are due October 31, 2024. Keywords: lausanne
• Call for Papers for April 2025 Special Issue: "Lausanne IV: Reviews, Analyses, and Projections" by GME Editorial Team (2024) - Call for Papers: “Lausanne IV: Reviews, Analyses, and Projections” For Publication in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, April 2025 The April 2025 issue of Global Missiology - English will examine the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, or “Seoul-Incheon 2024,” that will have taken place in September, 2024. The Lausanne Movement and the Worldwide Christian Movement · Preparations for the Lausanne IV Congress · Participant Experience of Lausanne IV · Analyses of Lausanne IV: Historical, Biblical-theological, Missiological, Religious, Socio-economic, Political · Immediate and Future Effects of Lausanne IV Proposed titles with approximately 100-word abstracts are due October 31, 2024. Keywords: lausanne
• Call for Papers for April 2025 Special Issue: "Lausanne IV: Reviews, Analyses, and Projections" by GME Editorial Team (2024) - Call for Papers: Lausanne IV: Reviews, Analyses, and Projections For Publication in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, April 2025 The April 2025 issue of Global Missiology - English will examine the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, or “Seoul-Incheon 2024,” that took place in September, 2024. The Lausanne Movement and the Worldwide Christian Movement · Preparations for the Lausanne IV Congress · Participant Experience of Lausanne IV · Analyses of Lausanne IV: Historical, Biblical-theological, Missiological, Religious, Socio-economic, Political · Immediate and Future Effects of Lausanne IV Proposed titles with approximately 100-word abstracts are due October 31, 2024. Keywords: lausanne

• Review of Teaching Cross-Culturally: An incarnational model for learning and teaching by Sills, David (2010) - The Master/Disciple relationship, or mentoring, method of teaching is presented in a way that demonstrates its strength for many cultures. The tools that they provide for cultural understanding and cross-cultural teaching will be a great help to anyone venturing into the realm of teaching in another culture. Keywords: teacher; teaching

• Review of Old Testament Ethics for the People of God by Kreitzer, Mark R. (2010) - This meant, Wright states in summary, that “there was resistance in Israel to centralized power and a preference for diverse and participatory politics, which tolerated – in- deed sought – the voice of criticism and opposition from the prophets, even if some of them paid a heavy price” (Wright 2004, 57). He carefully summa- rizes the theological worldview of Israel and, what he terms, the three foundational focal points or “pillars of Israel’s worldview” (Wright 2004, 19). Keywords: god; israel; land; wright

• MINISTERING TO SOUTH ASIANS IN CANADA AND BEYOND by Singh, Pritam; Thomas, T.V. (2010) - In July of 2001, God laid a vision in the hearts of various leaders of the South Asian Diaspora for a new and relevant work aimed at the next generation of young South Asians. With limited opportunities for permanent residence coupled with political instability and insecurity in the Middle East, many South Asians are immigrating to Canada. Keywords: asian; canada; generation; god; percent; south
• The Struggles of Generation Z and the Future of North American Mission Organizations by Dunaetz, David R. (2023) - Similarly, members of Generation Z are less religious and less spiritual than previous generations, attending fewer religious services and spending less time praying (Twenge et al., 2015). Versus Them In North America, Generation Z, compared to previous generations, is more concerned about making a living compared to developing a philosophy of life and living consistently with it (Twenge, 2017b; Twenge et al., 2012). Keywords: american; face; generation; media; online; psychological; twenge

• Guest Editorial: Amazed and Perplexed: Hope and Certainty in the Sovereignty of God through the Ages - by Gloria Tseng by Tseng - Hope College: Assoc Prof of History; GME Ed Team Mbr, Gloria (2020) - This peace the Heavenly City possesses in faith while on its pilgrimage, and it lives a life of righteousness, based on this faith, having the attainment of that peace in view in every good action it performs in relation to God, and in relation to a neighbour, since the life of a city is inevitably a social life (Augustine 19.17). 3 Guest Editorial Amazed and Perplexed: Hope and Certainty in the Sovereignty of God through the Ages Gloria S. Tseng Published in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, January 2020 The October 2019 and the January 2020 issues of Global Missiology offer an overview of the advance of the Gospel in modern times. Keywords: city; god; peace

• Aila Tasse and Dave Coles, Cabbages in the Desert: How God Transformed a Devout Muslim and Catalyzed Disciple Making Movements Among Unreached Peoples by Naylor, Mark (2024) - Through his Lifeway ministry Aila Tasse has empowered many DMM practitioners who have established ongoing Disciple Making Movements. Abstract Cabbages in the Desert: How God Transformed a Devout Muslim and Catalyzed Disciple Making Movements Among Unreached Peoples by Aila Tasse and Dave Coles provides case studies and explanations from in and around Kenya about Disciple Making Movements (DMM). Keywords: disciple; dmm; making; tasse

• THE REFLECTION OF THE LIBERAL CAPITALISM FROM THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE by Kwok, Hung-biu (2012) - � Sam Fleischacker, “Economics and the Ordinary Person: Rereading Adam Smith”, in � HYPERLINK http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2004/FleischackerSmith.html# ��http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2004/FleischackerSmith.html#� on 16th March, 2009. � Dugald Stewart, “Adam Smith’s Other Vision”, in � HYPERLINK http://webpages.ursinus.edu/rrichter/moralsent.htm ��http://webpages.ursinus.edu/rrichter/moralsent.htm� on 16th March, 2009. Keywords: adam; smith; theory

• gme-366 by None (None) - What was the purpose of tongues? 1) 1 Cor 14:22 says, “Tongues then ... are a sign for unbelievers”. tonguessummary TONGUES HAVE CEASED - A BRIEF SUMMARY Many people who speak in tongues say that their experience confirms that it is the Holy Spirit guiding them. Keywords: cor; knowledge; tongues

• Editorial by Wan, Enoch (2015) - Editorial: We appreciate the contributions of Andrew Barron and Beverly Jamison of Jews for Jesus in this issue on “North American Messianic Jews” Keywords: jews

• Call for Papers for April 2021 Special Issue: "Digital Media and Missions" by Editorial Team, GME (2020) - Call for Papers: “Digital Media and Missions” For Publication in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org. Global Missiology - Vol 3, No 17 (2020) Keywords: media

• gme-229 by None (None) - Dr. Ralph Winter along with Dr. Donald McGavran, Dr. Alan Tippett and Dr. Arthur Glasser, the big geniuses in the School of World Mission, kept me enthralled with the exciting conceptualization and historical relevance of effective theory and practice in Mission. Yes Dr. Ralph Winter was a Missiologist, Historian, Visionary, Stimulator, and creative Writer who made you sit up and listen. Keywords: winter
• Tribute to Dr. Ralph Winter by Tira, Sadiri Joy (2010) - Dr. Ralph Winter Sadiri Joy Tira Senior Associate for Diasporas, Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, www.lausanne.org International Coordinator , Filipino International Network, www.fin-online.org I first met Dr. Ralph Winter through the pages of his books in the early 1980s when I was a young seminary student; finally meeting him in person two decades later in a large missions gathering. Again, Dr. Ralph Winter, a world-renown leader, had reached out to me, an obscure servant. Keywords: winter

• TRIBUTES TO FRAN BY HER FRIENDS by Grimes Shaw, Georgia R.; Wan, Enoch (2010) - Fran played a significant role in the ministry to women at Fuller and it included all three schools. [Editor’s Note: the following letters are from the correspondence file for the Women’s Concerns office at FTS] In a 1983 letter to Peter Stuhlmacher, Fran was Director for Women’s Concerns at Fuller and wrote, “I also wish to express sincere personal appreciation to you for making me feel that you were addressing women along with the men who were present. Keywords: fran; women

• Only the Supernatural can save our Nation by McGatlin, Ron (2010) - We as western nations have separated ourselves from the provision and protection of God by seeking after many natural gods such as immoral pleasure, sports, riches, power, intellectual supremacy, and all that fulfills the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. The core of supernatural living is confidence or faith in spiritual supernatural God to provide all that is needed to sustain and fulfill life. Keywords: god; nations

• B2 Being the Hands of Jesus on the Afghan Border by Woodberry, K. Roberta (2012) - After our marriage, Dudley finished graduate school and we served together in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Michigan, and California. As a stay-at-home Mom for 20 years, I was still able to teach, direct adult and children’s choirs at church and school and provide a home for our family in some difficult places. Keywords: children; dudley; piano; school

• Jacky Lau, Mark Hedinger, and Sadiri Joy Tira, eds., MAP: Missionary, Anthropologist, Professor— A Festschrift for Dr. Enoch Wan by Carr, Chris (2025) - 2 Book Review Jacky Lau, Mark Hedinger, and Sadiri Joy Tira, eds., MAP: Missionary, Anthropologist, Professor— A Festschrift for Dr. Enoch Wan Reviewed by Chris Carr Published in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, October 2025 Lau, Jacky, Hedinger, Mark, and Tira, Sadiri Joy, eds., (2025). MAP: Missionary, Anthropologist, Professor—A Festschrift for Dr. Enoch Wan. Keywords: map; wan

• Book Review - The Insanity of God: The True Story of Faith Resurrected by Hirt, Matthew (2013) - While many readers may desire a resolution at the end of the story, Ripken challenges the reader to become part of the resolution. Ripken goes on to criticize this avoidance tactic that many American Christians have implicitly embraced arguing that it is not a matter of “Do I have the freedom?” Keywords: god; persecution; ripken

• THE AFRICAN CHURCH CATCHES THE BACK TO JERUSALEM VISION by Olonade, Timothy (2010) - More than 100 top missions leaders (representing 80 agencies, churches, and organizations) who are actively involved in recruiting, training, and sending missionaries from Nigeria affirmed this vision during the November 3, 2005 Nigeria Missions Executive Congress. Currently, Nigerian missionaries are serving in 14 of the 38 countries covered by this vision! Keywords: jerusalem; vision
• THE AFRICAN CHURCH CATCHES THE BACK TO JERUSALEM VISION by Olonade, Timothy (2010) - To unsubscribe to the Back to Jerusalem E-mail news updates, reply to this message and write unsubscribe in the Subject line To change your email address where these are sent, reply to this message and write change address in the Subject line. More than 100 top missions leaders (representing 80 agencies, churches, and organizations) who are actively involved in recruiting, training, and sending missionaries from Nigeria affirmed this vision during the November 3, 2005 Nigeria Missions Executive Congress. Keywords: jerusalem; vision

• Editorial by Wan, Enoch (2015) - Editorial: All of us who have experience in cross-cultural context know it well: “Issues of cross-cultural nature matter much.” The focus this time is on issues of cross-cultural nature because of the Great Commission involves many nations and people-groups. Keywords: nature

• If you think you’re having a bad day… by Wan, Enoch (2013) - If you think you’re having a bad day… Keywords: day

• Editorial by Wan, Enoch (2016) - Editorial: Happy New Year to readers of GM-English This theme of this issue is “Partnership of Churches and Missions Agencies” and we are very pleased to have the contributions by several experts as co-authors. Keywords: editorial
• Editorial by Wan, Enoch (2010) - · new editions of GM-Vietnamese will be launched in mid-October (delayed due to technical matters of font and format) Not having a budget nor a sponsoring entity, please joint me in celebrating God’s faithfulness to the ministry of Global Missiology as a free online e-journal. In this last issue of 2007, the team of volunteers of Global Missiology is happy to launch two new initiatives: · a new section “Diaspora Study” and would like to welcome Linda Gross who will manage it. Keywords: editorial
• Editorial by Wan, Enoch (2017) - Editorial: Recently, there is much report of Russian influence on American election and Russian interference on American democracy. In this issue, the focus is on evangelizing Russians with two featured articles for our readership to enjoy. Keywords: editorial
• Editorial by Jennings, Nelson (2018) - I am happy and honored to be assuming editorial responsibilities for GM-English, beginning with this quarter’s issue. For its part, Global Missiology (GM) has developed into a unique, multilingual conveyor of stimulating “contributions from international researchers, practitioners and scholars who have a global perspective,” as the masthead puts it. Keywords: editorial
• Editorial by Wan, Enoch (2010) - Editorial Editorial Happy New Year to readers of Global Missiology. Free upon request until April 30th, 2007. Keywords: editorial
• Editorial by Wan, Enoch (2010) - Editorial: Jan, 2010 Editorial: Happy New Year to our readers. As you can see that we have done a “face-lift” · with new lay out and format · with new hosting service · with the addition of the Portuguese Edition. Keywords: editorial
• Editorial by Wan, Enoch (2010) - In this issue, you will find the first of five out-of-print books (“CHRISTOPAGANISM OR INDIGENOUS CHRISTIANITY” ) donated by Dr. Ted Yamamori and the dissertation donated by Dr. Mark Hedinger to Global Missiology at the new “Resource Center” section. He is a regular contributor and a great advocate for Global Missiology. Keywords: editorial

• Book Review - Eastern Voices: Volume One - by Teresa Chai by Chai - PhD Fuller; fmr mis'ary in Bangladesh; Ac Dean @ Asia Pacific Theo Sem, Philippines, Teresa (2018) - In Chapter 5, Leor Sarker deals with handing over foreign missionary leadership to national leadership, where national leaders need to make their own mistakes and learn. Finally, Takeshi Takazawa in Chapter 9 asks the Eastern leadership that already exists, “Is this what Asian leadership looks like?” Chapter 6 is by Adrian de Visser, an etic voice critiquing worship as a form of entertainment. Keywords: chapter; voices
• Jonas Kurlberg and Peter M. Phillips, eds., Missio Dei in a Digital Age by Li, Melody (2021) - Steve Hollinghurst argues in Chapter 5 that digital media changes both the method and audience involved in communication, and he suggests that digital missiology is required for missions in digital times. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has further multiplied the worldwide reliance on digital technology. Keywords: age; chapter
• Arend van Dorp, Ethnic Diversity and Reconciliation: A Missional Model for the Church in Myanmar by Murphree, Daniel P. (2023) - For example, Malaysia is set forth as a model for Myanmar Christianity, but Van Dorp does not offer a case study or show how the situation in Malaysia is in any way like Christianity in Myanmar. Finally, in a section that reads more like a sermon, Van Dorp concludes the chapter by suggesting that Myanmar Christians should work not only for reconciliation but also diversity (83-88). Keywords: chapter; dorp; myanmar; van

• Reaching Families from Different Religious Traditions by Zaretsky, Tuvya (2010) - Develop Helpful Cultural Services We can also help cross-cultural couples navigate the choices for symbols in various rituals, life-cycle events and appropriate religious holidays. Jewish partners were unfamiliar with the religious beliefs of their Gentile partners. Keywords: couples; families; gentile; traditions
• gme-242 by None (None) - Published under “Diaspora Study” at www.globalmissiology.org, January 2008 7 Develop Helpful Cultural Services We can also help cross-cultural couples navigate the choices for symbols in various rituals, life-cycle events and appropriate religious holidays. Jewish partners were unfamiliar with the religious beliefs of their Gentile partners. Keywords: couples; gentile; study; traditions
• Call for Papers for April 2026 Special Issue: "Witness Amidst Confessional Plurality and Nationalism" by GME Editorial Team (2025) - In addition, Christian traditions relate differently to the state(s) within which they exist. Call for Papers: Witness Amidst Confessional Plurality and Nationalism For Publication in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, April 2026 The April 2026 issue of Global Missiology - English will take up the vexing reality of multiple Christian traditions co-existing amidst nationalistic contexts. Keywords: traditions
• Call for Papers for April 2026 Special Issue: "Witness Amidst Confessional Plurality and Nationalism" by GME Editorial Team (2025) - In addition, Christian traditions relate differently to the state(s) within which they exist. Call for Papers: Witness Amidst Confessional Plurality and Nationalism For Publication in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, April 2026 The April 2026 issue of Global Missiology - English will take up the vexing reality of multiple Christian traditions co-existing amidst nationalistic contexts. Keywords: traditions
• Call for Papers for April 2026 Special Issue: "Witness Amidst Confessional Plurality and Nationalism" by GME Editorial Team (2025) - In addition, Christian traditions relate differently to the state(s) within which they exist. Call for Papers: Witness Amidst Confessional Plurality and Nationalism For Publication in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, April 2026 The April 2026 issue of Global Missiology - English will take up the vexing reality of multiple Christian traditions co-existing amidst nationalistic contexts. Keywords: traditions

• Review Sharing your Faith with a Hindu by Johnson Rethinasamy, Elwin (2010) - The luxury of this book is not only the information about various Hinduism and its practices, it also challenges the reader in every chapter by explaining its limitations for a person being saved from his/her sinful nature and the need of knowing the truth that Jesus is the way, truth and the light. As a Lutheran myself, I am personally very taken by his view on true conversion which is also the same confessional position of the Lutherans. Keywords: hindu

• Obituary, Fran Hiebert by unknown, author (2010) - She was director of international student affairs both at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, Calif. and at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Ill. Microsoft Word - Obituary-Fran.doc Obituary Fran Hiebert died April 16, 1999 in Illinois. Keywords: fran
• REMEMBERING FRAN HIEBERT – REFLECTIONS FROM A FRIEND by Meye, Mary A. (2010) - Altadena, California Fran Hiebert was a dear, dear friend-along with her husband Paul. Fran and her husband Paul were rather the Ying and the Yang of human personality types. Keywords: fran
• My Tribute to Fran Hiebert by Patterson, Elizabeth "Libbie" (2010) - Her innate kindness and her big heart drew many students to her, and she served as an unofficial mentor for many women who were trying to find their way into a legitimate expression of their own call to ministry. Published in the special issue “A Memoriam of Paul G. Hiebert” www.globalmissiology.org April 1, 2007 Keywords: fran

• Editorial by Wan, Enoch (2012) - Editorial: Happy New Year to our readers -- wishing you a blessed new beginning. We are glad to have 3 new sections added in 2013 for all 4 issues: • “MISSIOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS OF DAVID HESSELGRAVE” by David Hesselgrave • “CONTEXTUALIATION” by Jackson Wu • “CREATIVE CONRNER” by the late Paul Grant from his creative legacy Another column from last year will be continued for all 4 issues, i.e. • “URBAN CHURCH PLANTING” by professor Damian Emetuche We are preparing to launch GM-Korean in the near future, so please in prayers for the team of volunteers for this major undertaking. Keywords: david

• Death? Bring it on! by Grant, Paul E. (2013) - Bring it on! by Paul E. Grant - April 2010 Published in www.GlobalMissiology.org Jan 2013 I welcome this transition We commonly label “death”, An immediate transformation By the grace of the Spirit’s breath* Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit Combine to welcome me, There I will stand in the merit Of Jesus Christ of Calvary Sudden death is sudden glory, Instantaneous transfiguration! Life as we know is transitory, Heaven is my celebration That is, a welcome just for me, Face to face with Christ my Saviour! So death, where is your sting?1 Where, O grave, is your victory? Listen now to Bible boasting, Death was conquered at Calvary!2 Our focus this side of dying Should be one of preparation, Engaging in edifying Ourselves for service, post-resurrection Life in Christ is a continuum Heaven for us begins on earth, Never should it be seen as a vacuum It has an eternal worth Death is the unique nano-second Of transfer to Heaven’s glory, Why should we fear when beckoned To our eternal territory? Keywords: death

• Cross-Cultural Humor by Wan, Enoch (2013) - Fun Quotes Answering machine message, I am not available right now, but thank you for caring enough to call. Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. Keywords: message

• gme-1631 by None (None) - New Year Greetings The Lord Bless You and Keep You Deborah Ko (Soprano) Peter Tang, M.D. (Tenor)   Watch the Video Keywords: video

• Angels Described By Children by Author, Anonymous (2014) - -Sara, age 6   Angels live in cloud houses made by God and his  son, who's a very good carpenter.  Angels don't wear halos anymore. Keywords: age

• Review of "The Concept of Ethnicity in the Bible: A Theological Analysis" by Mark Kreitzer by Wan, Enoch (2010) - This volume is a progress report of Dr, Mark R Kreitzer’s extensive study on the topic of ”ethnicity, ” prompted by • His professional service as a missionary in South Africa; • Full-time study in the two doctoral programs at Reformed Theological Seminary; • Personal reflections on his missionary career and in-depth research of many years on “ethnicity” This volume should be a prescribed reading for those who are interested in issues related to: • Microsoft Word - Review_Mark Kreitzer_Concept of Ethnicity_04_09.doc 1 Review The Concept of Ethnicity in the Bible: A Theological Analysis by Mark Kreitzer Lewiston, NY: Mellen. Reviewed by Enoch Wan . Keywords: ethnicity; terms

• Call for Papers for July 2024 Special Issue: “Awakenings, Advances, and Revivals: Noteworthy Outpourings of God’s Spirit” by GME Editorial Team (2024) - Call for Papers “Awakenings, Advances, and Revivals: Noteworthy Outpourings of God’s Spirit” For Publication in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, July 2024 The following topics are examples of requested articles: · Review of Recent Literature on Awakenings, Advances, or Revivals · Case Studies of Local, Regional, or Broader Spiritual Outpourings · Contemporary Case Studies · Historical Case Studies · Biblical-theological Analyses · Missiological Analyses Proposed titles with approximately 100-word abstracts are due November 30, 2023. Keywords: revivals
• Call for Papers for July 2024 Special Issue: “Awakenings, Advances, and Revivals: Noteworthy Outpourings of God’s Spirit” by GME Editorial Team (2024) - Call for Papers “Awakenings, Advances, and Revivals: Noteworthy Outpourings of God’s Spirit” For Publication in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, July 2024 The following topics are examples of requested articles: · Review of Recent Literature on Awakenings, Advances, or Revivals · Case Studies of Local, Regional, or Broader Spiritual Outpourings · Contemporary Case Studies · Historical Case Studies · Biblical-theological Analyses · Missiological Analyses Proposed titles with approximately 100-word abstracts are due February 29, 2024. Keywords: revivals

• Exploring Sino-Spirituality by Wan, Enoch (2010) - The paper offers perspectives on seven dimensions of true spirituality of a servant of the Lord. True spirituality requires both character and career in their proper order. Keywords: chinese; god; servant; spirituality

• Theme:Serving in African Context by Wan, Enoch (2013) - Unlike previous issues, the theme for this one is narrow and specific – focusing on African context. Please enjoy the labor of love of our contributors. Keywords: readers

• Cross-Cultural Humor by Wan, Enoch (2012) - Bad News: You lost two of them in the swift current. Bad News: The vote passed by 31-30. Keywords: news

• So Send I You (John 17:18-19; Matt 5:12-16) by Wan, Enoch (2010) - Deborah Ko City on the hill cannot be hidden, Light on table household all brightened. Through out the world, be salt and light, Shrine forth and ever so bright. Keywords: light

• R. Daniel Shaw, Singing Samo Songs: From Shaman to Pastor: An Ethnohistorical Approach to Socio-Religious Expressions among the Samo of Papua New Guinea by Beine, David (2024) - By structuring the book around the Kandila ceremony, Shaw not only provides a comprehensive analysis of Samo cultural evolution but also demonstrates a reflexive approach to ethnography that acknowledges the researcher’s presence and biases—a model that could inspire future ethnographers. During the 2022 American Anthropological Association meetings in Seattle, Washington, Daniel Shaw, a Senior Professor of Anthropology and Translation at the Fuller Graduate School of Mission and Theology, handed me his book with a suggestion: “You should read this.” Keywords: samo; shaw

• WINDOW B LEARNING FROM PEOPLE ON THE MARGINS by Shaw, Georgia (2012) - Lisa Engdahl’s journey moves from the Midwest to Los Angeles InterVarsity to co-founding Servant Partners. The final article in this window is from Jude Tiersma Watson in which she shares her journey into Joy on the streets of Los Angeles. Keywords: window

• Review of Jewish-Gentile Couples: Trends, Challenges, and Hopes by Brickner, David (2010) - The book is published by William Carey Library, Pasadena California USA and is also available through Jews for Jesus in San Francisco and at Purple Pomegranate Productions, 415-864-2092, e-mail. I am excited to see it implemented in the field of Jewish missions and missions around the world. Keywords: review

• Tech Support by Wan, Enoch (2015) - Tech support:    Click on the 'my computer' icon on to the left of the screen. Tech support:    Are you sure it's plugged into the computer? Keywords: customer

• Cross Cultural Humor by Author, Anonymous (2016) - That’s how people install new software into their brains. It’s called reading. Keywords: reading

• Cross-Cultural Humor by Wan, Enoch (2010) - Always keep your words soft and sweet - just in case you have to eat them.  Birthdays are good for you.   Keywords: days

• Editorial by Wan, Enoch (2014) - Readers are encouraged to use the link to browse the upcoming issue of Occasional Bulletin of Evangelical Missiological Society where three more pieces on the same theme will be published. Theme: Vulnerable Mission Editorial: This is a special issue focusing on “Vulnerable Mission” featuring papers presented at the two conferences held in the UK and the USA. Keywords: theme
• Editorial by Wan, Enoch (2012) - Theme: Pauline Methodology & Missions in the 21st Century – Part 2 Editorial : The theme for the first two issues in 2012 marks the occasion of the centennial celebration of Rolland Allan’s classic piece - Missionary Methods of St. Paul. We are anticipating the launch of Korean edition of GM in July and your prayers for the team of volunteers will be appreciated Keywords: theme

• Editorial by Wan, Enoch (2014) - EDITORIAL Our theme in this issue is “Diaspora Missiology” to coincide with the Mission Leaders Conference (www.MissioLeadersConferene.org – Sep. 26-27, 2014 Hilton Atlanta, Georgia) which covers matters related to: immigration & migration, globalization, urbanization and exploitation. Keywords: exploitation
• Our Theme by Wan, Enoch (2014) - EDITORIAL – Our theme in this issue is “Diaspora Missiology” to coincide with the Mission Leaders Conference (www.MissioLeadersConferene.org – Sep. 26-27, 2014 Hilton Atlanta, Georgia) which covers matters related to: immigration & migration, globalization, urbanization and exploitation. Are you getting the maximum use of your vehicle? Keywords: exploitation

• Lexophilia by Wan, Enoch (2016) - When the smog lifts in Los Angeles U.C.L.A. .. This year's winning submission is posted at the very end.  .. Keywords: year

• Jewish and Chinese Calendars... by Staff, GM (2010) - An Arab was walking through the Sahara desert, desperate for water, when he saw something, far off in the distance. The Arab shouted, I don't want a tie, you idiot, I need water! Keywords: water

• Review of "WAKING THE GIANT: THE RESURGING STUDENT MISSION MOVEMENT" by Grimes, Georgia R. (2010) - Shaw has an easy style as he moves from past, to present, to future student movement issues. This fourth generation message bearer follows in the steps of Mills, Mott, and Cunningham as he presents students with a vision of serving Jesus in places where the least access to the gospel exits. Keywords: shaw

• Jim Harries, How Western Anti-Racism Harms Africa and How We Can Do Better by Cloutier, Mary C. (2023) - Non-western peoples are not blank slates; their history and culture inform their current life experiences, so different from those of the West. This “vulnerable mission” can undermine anti-racist ideology and the negative impact of Western secularism. Keywords: anti; harries; racism

• Review of "The Biblical Revelation of the Cross: A Bible Study of the Atonement of Jesus Christ - the Righteous Servant " by Groom, Phil (2010) - Is the notion of penal substitution — the idea that on the cross God was punishing Jesus in place of humanity It's a notion that not only goes counter to any form of natural justice that intelligent beings might understand but also runs contrary to the Bible itself: for anyone who accepts the Bible as God's authoritative word, penal substitution as an explanation for the atonement simply will not do — it both misrepresents Scripture and dishonours God himself. Keywords: atonement; god; substitution
• Review: The Biblical Revelation of the Cross: A Bible Study of the Atonement of Jesus Christ - the Righteous Servant by Groom, Phil (2010) - Is the notion of penal substitution — the idea that on the cross God was punishing Jesus in place of humanity It's a notion that not only goes counter to any form of natural justice that intelligent beings might understand but also runs contrary to the Bible itself: for anyone who accepts the Bible as God's authoritative word, penal substitution as an explanation for the atonement simply will not do — it both misrepresents Scripture and dishonours God himself. Keywords: atonement; god; substitution

• Some comments on 1 Corinthians 14 by Alexander, Mick (2010) - Tongues was a sign If tongues was for prayer, revelation, prophecy etc, then, in relation to people speaking in tongues, why did Paul tell the people to stop thinking like children (1 Cor. 14:20)? The following PDF outlines where God has used tongues as a sign of judgment against the Jews: http://www.christianissues.biz/pdf-bin/tongues/tonguesasasign.pdf Tongues was not for personal edification 1 Cor. Keywords: tongues

• Some Notes on Designing Research Survey Forms by Jaffarian, Michael (2010) - Write questions that can be used for many years to come, in a wide range of situations. In the USA, major religious researchers, like George Barna and George Gallup, have been asking some of the same questions for many years, with the same wording. Keywords: questions; research

• Humor by Wan, Enoch (2012) - THE BAPTIST COWBOY AND BEER THE BAPTIST COWBOY AND BEER A cowboy, who just moved to Wyoming from Texas, walks into a bar and orders three mugs of Bud. When we all left our home in Texas, we promised that we'd drink this way to remember the days when we drank together. Keywords: cowboy

• Humor by Wan, Enoch (2013) - Be careful where you put a price tag! Keywords: tag

• Blessed Assurance by Wong Ko, Deborah (2012) - “Blessed Assurance”— A song by Deborah Wong Ko   Deborah Wong Ko holds a B.A. in music from Furman University and a M.M. in voice performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio. Deborah and her husband Chi Sown Ko, M.D., a dermatologist, dedicate this video song Blessed Assurance to God with love. Keywords: deborah

• gme-117 by None (None) - Sacco gives no deep analysis and offers no real solutions, but here presents the opportunity to reflect on larger questions of the nature of war, inter-ethnic strife, oppression, and bigotry in the human experience. Most American Evangelicals are strongly pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian. Keywords: sacco

• BEYOND HUMAN ACCREDITATION THE CALL by Grant, Paul (2013) - Western worldview thought Promotes accreditation, Pursuit of learning and training For a profession or vocation For societies to develop In our post-modern cultures People must be skilled and taught Through levels and procedures Training, skilling, and apprenticeships, Are pathways towards a vocation; Professional recognition is achieved Through higher education A man or woman is normally affirmed By an accrediting organisation Approved by governments under law To confer due recognition People who succeed are recognised And given a qualification, This gives the person eligibility And status for career and function Jesus’ call for labourers Carries different requirements, The Master simply confronts us With a challenge to obedience Through total submission to his will We begin our discipleship training, Captivating our deepest affections He promotes our yearning for learning Sealed and empowered by the Holy Spirit We are tutored in truth and grace, Revelation provides true information Held fast by his embrace Credentialled by God’s own equipping, We are given a qualification, Transformed by the renewing of our minds A transcendent education Obedience to Jesus’ surpassing call Means brain power is brought into order, Human accreditations have their place But the Spirit is the Controller The call of God brings enlightenment Of a kind transcending all wisdom Yet thought made captive to God’s will Takes on a new dimension Keywords: accreditation; god

• Cross-Cultural Humor by Wan, Enoch (2013) - It is MUCH cheaper than speed cameras, radar guns, police officers, etc. How's this for effective speed control? Keywords: speed

• Global Missiology Humor Part 2 by Wan, Enoch (2013) - image4.jpeg image5.jpeg image6.jpeg image7.jpeg image8.jpeg image9.jpeg image10.jpeg image11.jpeg image12.jpeg image13.jpeg image14.jpeg image1.jpeg image2.jpeg image3.jpeg Are you getting the maximum use of your vehicle? Keywords: image4.jpeg

• WHAT CAN I TAKE TO HEAVEN? by Grant, Paul (2013) - By the late Paul Grant Published at www.GlobalMissiology.org, October 2013 We cram our lives with collectables Like a train with containers in tow, Our assets, possessions, and materials, Define us wherever we go We categorise our attainments, Or make lists of goals we’ve perceived, We examine our own assessments And consider what we’ve achieved Who we are, in our way of thinking, Consists of many fulfilments, As a new creation, sins forgiven, To see him and serve him face to face * 2 Corinthians 4:18 Paul E. Grant, April 2008 Keywords: heaven

• Random Thoughts by Wan, Enoch (2010) - If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from? If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons? Keywords: thoughts

• The Parable of the Fishermen by Unknown, Author (2010) - Some studied much and traveled to learn the history of fishing and to see faraway places where the founding fathers did great fishing in centuries past. They sponsored costly nationwide and worldwide congresses to discuss fishing and promote fishing and hear about all the ways of fishing, such as new fishing equipment, fish calls, controlling water temperatures and whether any new bait was discovered. Keywords: fishing

• The Doctor Who Attended His Own Funeral by Hesselgrave, David (2010) - Dr. Sakakida is the only man I have ever known who not only arranged, but also attended, his own funeral! Then, in October of 1958, Dr. Sakakida joined our English Bible class in order to learn—what else?—English! Keywords: funeral; sakakida

• gme-1630 by None (None) - Church prophets – there seem to be few, At times bring some inspiration, May God send prophets to bring a debut Of national transformation � Dimitri Panin (1976) quoted in Alexander Solzenhitsyn – A Century In His Life by D.M. Thomas, 1998. One man stood out in protest Against this ghastly slaughter, It seems he was God-sent to contest This evil, and become a universal reporter Alexander Solzenhitsyn is his name An extraordinarily heroic figure, His passion was to fearlessly declaim This diabolic evil with vigour From Czar regimes, then Lenin and Stalin There came totalitiarian rule, Anti-God communism treated millions as vermin, Monstrous oppression unspeakably cruel A brilliant scientist and mathematician Keywords: god; prophet

• Cultural Humor 1 by Wan, Enoch (2014) - Scroll Down         Your CAT SCAN and LAB TESTS are now Complete. MEDICAL TEST:   STARE INTO THE CAT'S EYES FOR 10 SECONDS     Keywords: seconds

• Cultural Humor 2 by Wan, Enoch (2014) - Every year. _____________________________________ ATTORNEY: How old is your son, the one living with you? WITNESS: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which. WITNESS: Forty-five years. _________________________________ ATTORNEY: Keywords: attorney

• ANIMAL CRACKER-UPPERS by Wan, Enoch (2014) - ANIMAL CRACKER-UPPERS   Keywords: animal

• Editorial by Wan, Enoch (2015) - The theme for this first issue of 2015 aptly shows the importance of keeping the “Gospel-Proclamation” to be the focus of the Great Commission; instead of misguided priority. Keywords: priority

• gme-1814 by None (None) - Compared to similar Bible software, BibleWorks is a steal, seriously. Why should missionaries read a review of Bible software? Keywords: bibleworks; software

• Meditation (Lent Season) and Christian Missions by Wan, Enoch (2010) - Suffering servant, shameful death, Absolute obedience to the Father’s will; Shedding blood, giving up the last breathe, Atonement paid, righteousness fulfilled, Glory to God and peace on earth, Good news for all who’ve fallen; Entrusted; not angels - the Great Commission, For costly prize He paid; Tears, blood and sacrifice, All on the altar, He laid. Keywords: meditation

• ATM Male vs. Female Instructions by Wan, Enoch (2015) - Re-empty hand bag, locate card holder, and place card into the slot provided! 23. 1. Drive up to cash machine. Keywords: cash

• Best Headlines from 2007 by Wan, Enoch (2016) - Best Headlines from 2007 Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers Miners Refuse to Work after death Juvenile Court to Try Shooting defendant War Dims Hope for Peace If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile Cold Wave Linked to temperatures Enfield ( London ) A while later she heard loud meowing and      hissing and ran back To the open window to see Johnny baptizing the      cat in a tub of water. Keywords: cat

• Jesus chose death on the cross to pay the price for your sin and mine. by GM, Staff at (2010) - Microsoft Word - humor_Jesus got the check_04_09.doc Jesus chose death on the cross to pay the price for your sin and mine. (www.newchristian.org.uk/reverendfun.html) Keywords: www.newchristian.org.uk/reverendfun.html

• Cross Cultural Humor by Wan, Enoch (2016) - · Velcro - what a rip off! · Don’t worry about old age; it doesn’t last. I dropped out of communism class because of lousy Marx. · Keywords: frog

• Theme: Local Church and Christian Missions by Wan, Enoch (2016) - During this time of political turmoil and refugee crisis in Syria, it is timely to include the piece by Dr. Rupen Das of Tyndale (Toronto) in this first issue of GM-English of 2017, along with the piece entitled: “The Practice of Diaspora Missions in Local Congregation: From Beginning to Base.” · At the beginning of 2017, we want to encourage local congregations to be actively involved in the practice of Christian missions for it is fundamentally the base of Great Commission thus the second piece in the “Featured Article Keywords: piece

• Living to Make a Difference by Professional Services, MSI (2010) - Emeritus FriendWith Photos 20032009.doc “Living to Make a Difference” Dr. Taylor, August 12th 1929 – March 20th 2009 Dear Colleagues and Friends of MSI Dr. James Hudson Taylor III is the great grandson of Hudson Taylor, founder of China Inland Mission. Dr. Taylor blessed all MSI colleagues by spending his final lap of life with us. Keywords: msi; taylor

• 75th Anniversary of December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor: Did We Learn Anything? Yes! 9/11: Did We Learn Anything? Not So Much. by Anonymous, ONE (2017) - Once militant Shinto was disestablished (separated from state support), then Christian missionaries were free to go to Japan and preach. Are we willing to divide militant Islam from “mosque Islam” the way that we divided militant Shinto from “shrine Shinto”? Keywords: enemy; militant; shinto

• Humor by Wan, Enoch (2017) - A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. · I hate it when people use big words just to make themselves sound perspicacious. · Keywords: password

• gme-2033 by None (None) - Moreover, since it is frequently uncertain which English word most accurately represents the respective connotation of peirasmos, we often use testing/temptation, test/temptation, or trial/temptation as a rendering thereof. A more precise title would be, Peirasmos in the New Testament, peirasmos being the Greek term to be translated, at least in its earlier usage, as resting, test or trial, though enticement to evil often became so prominent in its meaning that ''temptation is frequently an appropriate rendering. Keywords: temptation

• Gentle Lessons of Life by Wan, Enoch (2017) - If you can smile when things go wrong, you must have someone else in mind to blame.                     PAGE 1 Gentle Lessons of Life Published in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org. Keywords: thing

• Humor by Jennings, Nelson (2018) - Where was the 1835 He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni (Declaration of Independence of the United Tribes of New Zealand) signed? If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in other hand, what would you have? Keywords: hand

• Etic Analyses - by J. Nelson Jennings by Jennings - GME Editor, J. Nelson (2019) - In this January 2019 issue of Global Missiology – English, all four articles are etic analyses. Related is that the authors are etic observers of, and to varying degrees participants in, the situations – or at least parts of the situations – that the articles address. Keywords: etic; god

• Transitioning Mission Approaches - by J. Nelson Jennings by Jennings - GME - Editor; Onnuri Church - Mission Pastor, Consultant, Int'l Liaison, J. Nelson (2019) - Cross-cultural interactions inevitably are multifaceted, and Roger Lowther’s exploration of art and missions highlights a dimension too often neglected. These changes are largely due to the cross-cultural interactions that have been taking place between Western and non-Western settings ever since Europeans, including gospel emissaries, began migrating worldwide a half-millennium ago. Keywords: interactions

• How the Internet Started, According to the Bible - collected by Editorial Staff by Staff, Editorial (2019) - Dot Com was a comely woman, broad of shoulder and long of leg.  And because it was Dot's idea, they named it YAHOO Dot Com. Keywords: dot

• My Tribute by Dauermann, Stuart (2010) - Microsoft Word - Rabbi Stuart Dauermann.doc Rabbi Stuart Dauermann, Senior Scholar, Messianic Jewish Theological Institute In 2008, I spoke at the U.S. Center for World Mission on the post-supersessionist missiological paradigm my friends Rabbi Stuart Dauermann, Senior Scholar, Messianic Jewish Theological Institute Published in the July 2009 issue of the multi-lingual online journal www.GlobalMissiology.org Keywords: stuart

• A Tribute to Dr. Ralph Winter by Bush, Luis (2010) - Microsoft Word - Luis Bush_tribute_Winter.doc A Tribute to Dr. Ralph Winter Luis Bush, former director of AD 2000 and Beyond Ralph Winter has served us all by providing mission perspectives that not only made those of us who seek to follow Christ think, but also, to act. Luis Bush His friend Published in the July 2009 issue of the multi-lingual online journal www.GlobalMissiology.org Keywords: luis

• A Tribute to Ralph Winter by Greenway, Roger S. (2010) - Microsoft Word - Tribute-Roger Greanway.doc A Tribute to Ralph Winter Roger S. Greenway I came to know Ralph back in the 1960s when he and Roberta were serving in Guatemala. Keywords: roger

• Cross Culture Humor October 2009 by Wilder, Mary (2009) - Microsoft Word - humor oct 09.htm 1. My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, 'Grandma, do you know how you and God are alike?' Keywords: microsoft

• A Renaissance Missiologist by Covell, Ralph (2010) - Microsoft Word - A Renaissance Missiologist.doc A Renaissance Missiologist Ralph Covell Senior Professor of Missions, Denver Seminary and Former Editor of Missiology Senior Prof of Missions During the 1980's I had the very special privilege of assisting Dr. Paul; Hiebert as he taught the course Cross-Cultural Missiology in the D.Min. Published in the special issue “A Memoriam of Paul G. Hiebert” www.globalmissiology.org April 1, 2007 Keywords: renaissance

• gme-314 by None (None) - Microsoft Word - Buthanese exiles plant churches in refugee camp.doc Buthanese exiles plant churches in refugee camp By Joel News JNI 596 - Planting churches is forbidden in the small Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan, but a church planting movement is now spreading among an exiled Bhutanese community living as refugees in south easthern Nepal. Also in this edition: Growing 'ecumenism of the heart' in Europe, First prayer mountain in mainland China?, Praying for the peace of Baghdad, Prayer request for Pakistan. Keywords: refugee

• Music to stand by by Staff, GM (2010) - Microsoft Word - Humor 10.6.doc Humor - October 2006 Volume 4, Number 1 Music to stand by The minister was preoccupied with thoughts of how he was going to ask the congregation to come up with more money than they were expecting for repairs to the church building. During the service, the minister paused and said, Brothers and Sisters, we are in great difficulty; the roof repairs cost twice as much as we expected, and we need $4,000 more. Keywords: substitute

• April 06 CROSS-CULTURAL JOKE by Staff, GM (2010) - Microsoft Word - April 06 Madagascar joke.doc April 06 CROSS-CULTURAL JOKE – • Subject: missionary ladies in Madagascar! So it was, from that time to the present, single women missionaries in Madagascar are called, “v.v.’s” Keywords: madagascar

• Editorial by Wan, Enoch (2010) - Acknowledgment and appreciations are due to the publisher and the author of the seminal title (Paradigms in Conflict by David John Hesselgrave) who have granted permission to post one chapter from the book for the benefits of readers of Global Missiology. Dr. Hesselgrave is a decorated and accomplished missiologist of this generation, a faithful supporter and frequent contributor to Global Missiology. Keywords: section

• Giving Honor to the Little Man of Mindoro for the Glory of God! by Nichols, Doug (2010) - Because of the kindness of Dr. Santiago, Margaret and I were encouraged to remain in the ministry. While Margaret rested and slept, I helped at the clinic by cutting grass, sorting medical supplies, helping with record keeping, sharing the Word of God, and caring for patients. Keywords: doctor; margaret

• Evangelist has unprecedented entrance in China by Luis Palau Association, www.palau.org (2010) - Dr. Palau and Minister Zhao have done just that, and I believe we all have something to learn from them.” “I am a physicist and an architect by training,” said Zhao through a translator, “but I have read the Bible several times, as well as the writings of Martin Luther, Calvin, and others, so I welcomed and enjoyed the dialogue on issues of religion and faith with Dr. Palau.” Keywords: palau; zhao

• Cross-Cultural Humor by Wan, Enoch (2011) - It's hard to believe these were actually done by first graders.   I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks, so I wondered what Chinese mothers use. Keywords: graders; proverb

• Humor by Hedinger, Karen (2011) - INCLUDEPICTURE cid:image001.jpg@01C94B2A.C1FD1C70 \* MERGEFORMATINET Send  it to people that just need a good laugh   Just when you thought you had it all           Just  when you thought you had it  all!!    Keywords: includepicture

• Humor by Hedinger, Karen (2012) - Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes or shark attacks. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. Keywords: marlboro

• Review of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Jaffarian, Michael (2010) - He studies inter-civilizational conflict and war thoroughly, and, from that, offers us no comfort. It represents the state of the art in geopolitical thinking and writing, instructive on many important international questions, large and small. Keywords: huntington

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