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A Shared Services Environment for Ministries: Riding Out the Storms of Change Together
George Brown
To most effectively deal with the changing culture and worldview, ministries and mission agencies must join hands and share services whenever possible.
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Contextualization: A Few Basic Questions
L.D. Waterman
Eight questions illuminate how church planters from a variety of backgrounds and ministries can agree on contextual strategies.
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Cultural Bridges and Momina Traditional Religion: Seeking a Key Redemptive Analogy and Mission Many
Les Henson
In his work with the Momina, Henson found four significant cultural bridges that facilitated the communication of the gospel and biblical truth to the Momina people.
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Evangelism and Dreams: Foundational Presuppositions to Interpret God-given Dreams of the Unreached
Randal Scott
A biblical understanding of dreams can facilitate a contextual approach to reaching Muslims (and those of other faiths) with the gospel.
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Reflections on Missionary Redeployment: Caring for the Emotional Needs of the Missionary
Steve M. Irvin
Transitioning to a new field is often emotionally difficult for a missionary. Irvin offers three strategies for improving the outcome of such situations.
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Safe or Sorry in Developing the Female Missionary Force
George Winston
A coherent biblical theology of women and the testimony of many exegetically simple passages reveal that women indeed have a significant role in missions.
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Short-term Missions as Spiritual Exercise
Robert Reese
A veteran missionary asks, “How much does the cross enter into the thinking of short-term missionaries?” and discusses four kinds of misunderstandings common to STMs.
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The Character of Short-term Mission
Gene Daniels
The most relevant question for a new generation of world Christians is, “What would be biblical character qualifications for a short-term missionary?”
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The Momina Story of the Fall and the Loss of Eternal LIfe
Les Henson
In the beginning of time a “man who shed his skin” took his sister and came down to earth. He gave her to a “man of the earth” that she might become his wife. Having given her to the “man of the earth,” he said to the people, “Build a house in preparation for the feast of snakes and lizards.” He then returned to his abode in the sky.
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Why They Don't Go: Surveying the Next Generation of Mission Workers
Philip Thornton and Jeremy Thornton
A survey of 250 college-aged students reveals the real reasons why fewer young people are going into long-term mission work.
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| Ÿ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
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EMQ Readers
Our readers respond to previous EMQ articles.
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| Ÿ A SECOND LOOK: EDITORIAL BY EMQ EDITOR GARY CORWIN |
Of Partnerships and Power Trips
Gary Corwin
The differences between true partnerships and power trips disguised as partnerships are significant.
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| Ÿ PERSPECTIVES: EMQ GUEST EDITORIAL |
Sabbatical Reflection: The Father's Lavish Love
Jim Van Meter
We are at our best when we are rested—from having been alone with God.
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| Ÿ IN THE WORKSHOP |
Reflection on a Missions Partnership
Lee Behar
Now that the Alliance has completed its ministry, how can we evaluate its effectiveness? By God’s grace there is good news to share and lessons to be learned.
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| Ÿ MISSION RESOURCES ON THE WEB |
Mission Photos
A. Scott Moreau and Mike O'Rear
Websites that offer quality images of mission-related activities.
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| Ÿ BOOK REVIEWS |
Communicating Christ in the Buddhist World
Paul De Neui and David Lim, eds.
Anyone who has attempted to share the gospel with a Buddhist has undoubtedly heard one of two responses: “Oh, yes. Christianity and Buddhism are two paths to the same place. There is no real difference,” or, “I can’t be a Christian. I am Thai” (or whatever ethnicity the person identifies him or herself to be). Communicating Christ in the Buddhist World is a collection of papers written by practitioners who have grappled with these responses.
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Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement
Donald E. Miller and Tetsunao Yamamori
What is new and groundbreaking about Miller and Yamamori’s new study is the balance provided by their subtitle: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement. It captures with accuracy the growing influence of transformational Pentecostalism on the international social and political scene.
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God’s Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe’s Religious Crisis
Philip Jenkins
In this book, the third in his trilogy on contemporary Christianity, Jenkins turns his focus to Europe, which Pope John Paul II calls “eldest daughter of the Church.”
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Hope for Children in Poverty: Profiles and Possibilities
Ronald J. Sider and Heidi Unruh, eds.
In this relatively slim volume, Ron Sider and Heidi Unruh have collected a cornucopia of articles targeted at the uninitiated but well-meaning churchgoer to demystify poverty in America and its impact on children.
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Nexus: The World House Church Movement Reader
Rad Zdero, ed.
Drawing from the experiences and writings of over thirty-five individuals, Rad Zdero has compiled a massive book with chapters addressing house churches from a multitude of angles.
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Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism
David Smilde
Based on three years of participant observation and interviews, Smilde explores the reasons why some men in Latin American convert to evangelicalism and others don't given similar backgrounds and opportunities to hear the gospel.
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Secret Believers: What Happens When Muslims Believe in Christ
Brother Andrew and Al Janssen
This takes Western Christians into the lives of Christians and Muslim Background Believers (MBBs) in the Middle East.
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Spreading Fires: The Missionary Nature of Early Pentecostalism
Allan Anderson
In this book, Allan Anderson seeks to identify the essential characteristics that produced the unprecedented worldwide growth of Pentecostalism by analyzing its origins.
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When Charity Destroys Dignity: Overcoming Unhealthy Dependency in the Christian Movement
Glenn J. Schwartz
Schwartz writes from field experience and more than twenty years of doing seminars on “dependency.”
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