EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 10 of 160 · 3,822 in all.
Members onlyTentmaking: Paul’s Missionary Strategy?
By Samson L. Uytanlet | Was tentmaking Paul’s intentional missions strategy? Or did Paul simply make tents during his missionary journeys because it was his profession? A deeper look at New Testament passages about Paul’s tentmaking work reveals a more nuanced answer.
Members onlyLeadership, Ministry, and Church Order in South Korea
By KyungMi Seo | The church in Korea grew rapidly for more than 100 years. This growth happened as the result of Koreans who carefully studied Scripture, zealously evangelized, and managed churches on their own without relying on missionaries. However, the church has declined during the last 20 years. A leadership…
Members onlyWhen God’s People Pray Together
By Marcia Strauss | Many of us have been inspired by a story of a person who was a prayer warrior. But this model of individual prayer often reflects our cultural and personal bent toward individualism. This is not wrong, but it is an incomplete view of prayer. Praying together with others is also an essential part…
Members onlyPurpose and Power of Prayer Guides
By Madison Strauder | Prayer guides can be an important way to engage the Church in participating in God’s mission. These simple tools help us steward the story of the nations and invite the global Church to join in fervent prayer for the unreached.
Members onlyMissionaries and Prayer Support: We Need to Talk
By Katherine Lorance | Many missionaries dutifully work to gain prayer commitments from churches, small groups, and individuals. Despite this emphasis on prayer, too few field workers know who is actually praying for them when they send out their prayer updates. What are some ways for missionaries and prayer…
Members onlyPrayer: The Key to Bearing Fruit
By Moses Olele | Prayer makes a tangible difference in God’s kingdom. From my city in Uganda, I have prayed with other believers for unreached peoples near and far. Our participation in prayer has moved mission work forward in ways we could not have imagined.
Members onlyPraying through 12 Common Characteristics of Disciple Making Movements
By Robin Smith | Prayer makes a difference! In our ministry we have witnessed the powerful role of prayer in this task of discipling the lost to become followers of Christ. We rejoice that we’ve been able to see a movement of disciples making disciples birthed among the people group we serve. We’re not alone.…
Members onlyThe Impact of Prayer on Church Planting, Evangelism and Miracles
By David Lewis | We do not know how many intercessors are around the world, and their impact is not easily quantifiable using earthly measurements. Nevertheless, we can find numerous examples of how prayer is essential to the gospel’s worldwide spread.
Members onlyCultivating Grassroots Prayer Movements
By Jenny Oliphant | Since 2020, more people have been involved in global, united, Great Commission prayer than ever before. Online and in person groups that link local and global prayer partners are unleashing the power of prayer in a way never seen before. Grassroots prayer movements which have grown out of church…
Members onlyDecade of Harvest: the Convergence of Gospel and Prayer Movements
By Jason Hubbard | 2033 marks 2,000 years of the Great Commission and the birthday of the Church. As we draw closer to this significant milestone, God is inviting us to a decade of harvest, where human cooperation in prayer and the empowered proclamation of the gospel has begun to intersect with the divine…
Members onlyHolding the Rope: Making Space for Prayer in the Bible Translation Movement
By Jo Johnson, Sineina Gela, Ann Kuy, Nancy Duncan, and Zac Manyim with Gwendolyn Davies and Jim Killam | Holding the rope is a visual symbol of unity and togetherness in prayer. As prayer leaders in the Bible translation movement, we have learned that when we stay within the confines of our own cultures in prayer…
Members onlyThe Number One Strategy for Reaching the Lost
By Chris Ruge | More than 100,000 people will die, today, without knowing Jesus. What can we do in response? There is nothing more powerful and more effective we can do to impact the lost and unreached masses around the world for all eternity than to pray.
Members onlyGreat Commission Prayer
By Heather Pubols | Prayer is the power and foundation of any and all participation in God’s mission. And it is as significant a part of the Great Commission as any strategies devised, or work performed.
Members onlyThe Promise of the Open Generation
By Daniel Copeland and Alyce Youngblood | In Barna’s largest generational study to date, we contemplated what it means to minister to and mobilize Gen Z, at a global or local level. The data we’ve gathered on global teens led us to a promising example that teens themselves seem to be setting: to be open.
Members onlyInviting Gen Z to Serve
By Amanda Roozeboom | Short-term missions trips that are thoughtfully planned and executed can be an important way to welcome Gen Z into missions.
Members onlyA Balanced Framework
By Tim Crouch with Mark and Cinda Wood | Teams working in cross-cultural contexts face formidable challenges. The balanced framework provides focus areas to help leaders and teams thrive, achieve mission, sustain their efforts and see vision realized.
Members onlyTransforming Frames of Marginalization
By John Trotter | To what degree has society’s frame of reference on disability shaped the Church, ministries, and perceptions of who is or isn’t qualified for mission? How do we move people with disabilities from recipients to participants in God’s Mission?
Members onlyMobilizing Gen Z – A Biblical Theology
By Kyle Benner | The calling of Simon Peter, as found in Luke 5:1–11, demonstrates Jesus Christ’s recruitment strategy. By studying Jesus’s approach, we can learn principles that can help us increase Gen Z’s engagement in missions.
Members onlyGo Digital Before It’s Too Late
By Andrew Feng and Nick Wu | Many missions organizations face two significant problems: limited capacity and ineffective stewardship. Embracing a digital transformation is a key to overcoming these challenges. The first digital native generation – Generation Z – can play an essential part in helping organizations…
Members onlyDo Missions Conferences Matter?
By Evi Rodemann | Missions conferences around the world have played an important part in mobilising young people into long-term missions service. But as we consider ways to mobilise today’s young people – Gen Z – we need to consider tools to measure events that will help improve their long-lasting effectiveness.
Members onlyGen Z and Global Missions: Allies or Enemies
By Ruth Hubbard | Gen Z has several positive and negative characteristics that may affect their willingness and motivation to engage in global missions service. How do we help develop them into allies of global missions rather than enemies?
Members onlyThree Strategies for Engaging Gen Z in Missions
By Jolene Erlacher | The people who comprise Gen Z in North America are growing up in a post-Christian society. This poses a significant challenge for North American mission agencies which are recruiting the next generation of missionaries. However, by embracing new mobilization strategies, we can seize this…
Members onlyDiffusion of Youth Ministry
By Anthony J. Gryskiewicz | Ministry to teenagers in continental Europe is less developed than in other parts of the world. While Western and Northern Europe report robust youth participation, youth ministry seems underdeveloped in Central and Eastern Europe. Noting that there are global commonalities to youth…
Members onlyPaul’s Ministry in Greece as a Paradigm for Our Ministry Among Gen Z
By Hélder Favarin | Paul sermons in the book of Acts provide five lessons for ministry among Gen Z in any global context: multigenerational leadership, contextualization, apologetics, influencing the Areopagus, and dialogue and proclamation.