Missions Archive
Here is a great post about how missionaries can better communicate with the churches that support them:
http://churchplantpastor.org/2010/07/20/missionaries-help-us-help-you/
John Piper has a great new video where he confronts the false gospel called the Prosperity Gospel that is being taught by many speakers today. We need to be ready for suffering because all Christians will experience suffering in this life.
Dr. Sills, one of the missions professors here at Southern, has started a new missions sending agency. Here is a blurb from his latest blog post about the new ministry:
Reaching & Teaching has a God-sized vision: All of God’s people going into all the world faithfully obeying all of the Great Commission. Please pray […]
C1 to C6 Contextualization Spectrum - Part 2 (C4-C6)
0 Comments Published April 6th, 2010 in MissionsA C4 contextualized Christ centered community uses insider language and biblically permissible cultural and Islamic forms, ritual and ceremonies. This is similar to C3 but believers are allowed to pray with Muslim prayer forms, chant using the Scriptures and fast with their neighbors. C4 churches are an insider movement, they do not advocate coming out […]
C1 to C6 Contextualization Spectrum - Part 1 (C1-C3)
0 Comments Published March 28th, 2010 in MissionsThe C1to C6 contextualization spectrum was developed as a tool for defining six types of “Christ centered communities” commonly found in the Muslim world. The article was published in Evangelical Missions Quarterly in October 1998. John Travis wrote the article to describe what he found happening in the Muslim world. In this blog post I […]
The Prosperity Gospel from The Global Conversation on Vimeo.
Contextualization and the Homogeneous Unit Principle
0 Comments Published October 29th, 2009 in MissionsA great book is getting ready to be released this spring and 9Marks Blog has written up a great review about it:
http://blog.9marks.org/2009/10/contextualization-euphemism-for-homogeneous-unit-principle.html
Tears of the Saints - A New, Powerful Video Produced by Desiring God Ministries
1 Comment Published August 18th, 2009 in MissionsI do not think there is anything wrong with house churches, but I do not believe they are the only “biblical” model of planting churches. Here is a short piece from a blog post at Alpha and Omega Ministries:
He then cites 2 Thessalonians 2:15. He says “there’s no doubt about the traditions of the apostles […]
The 9 Marks Ministries eJournal is a journal published by 9 Marks ministries in Washington, D.C. This ministry is headed by Mark Dever, pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church.
This month’s eJournal is about missions. There are book reviews of several major missions books. There are a couple of missions books that fall into the […]