EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 118 of 160 · 3,822 in all.
Reflections at a Muslim Grave
I wondered and wept. How does Christ enter the Muslim world?
It’s Our 20th Birthday Interviews with Wade Coggins and Edwin L. Jack Frizen, Jr.
To mark the occasion, we asked the heads of our sponsoring associations where we are in missions now compared to 1964.
Invest in Only the Best
It’s time to re-evaluate summer missions.
Make Sure You’re Getting Through
Too often our telling the gospel fails to hit the mark because we don’t know what, how, and why people believe. How culture shapes belief systems should be required knowledge.
Keep the AEPM Going
Man has a tendency to perpetuate institutions, whether or not they continue to serve their original purpose. As a result, agencies and institutions clamor for support long after they have outlived their usefulness.
AEPM News and Views
It’s a cliche, but it’s also a fact: we live in challenging times. A major part of the challenge lies in sorting out challenges.
Tentmaking’s No Picnic
There are rewards, but pitfalls abound. God’s call is just as essential as for the career missionary.
He Got a Second Chance: Interview with H. Wilbert Norton
Because of his extensive studies in missions, his many years of teaching, and his keen interest in current affairs in both missions and education, Wilbert Norton’s insights are pertinent to missionaries at all levels of action.
The Two Shall Become One
Church-mission integration, like marriage, costs much of both parties to make it work.
Is Your Evangelism Program Any Good?
Because there are so many techniques on the market, missionaries need discernment, they need to know how to weigh the pros and cons. To help them do that, I’ve put together a list of test questions. Apply them ruthlessly to every method.
Doing Mission
Our look at what makes pastors (and missionaries) weep; power In proverbs; finding support In a good learning setting; and rooting out theological education’s colonialism.
Editor’s Analysis
Are tentmakers copouts from being real missionaries? According to some critics, yes. Are tentmakers God’s secret weapon to evangelize the world? According to some backers, yes.
Reflections at a Muslim Grave
I wondered and wept. How does Christ enter the Muslim world?
It’s Our 20th Birthday Interviews with Wade Coggins and Edwin L. Jack Frizen, Jr.
To mark the occasion, we asked the heads of our sponsoring associations where we are in missions now compared to 1964.
Can We Disciple Whole Countries?
The answer is yes, but it will take big changes.
Key Issues in Missiology: An Evangelical View
It needs to be recognized at the outset that an agenda of missiological issues will to a degree be inevitably determined by one’s perspectives.
Do We Need AEPM? Yes, for Three Reasons
Should evangelical professors of missions maintain a vigorous separate organization whose purpose is to develop, voice, and promote classical biblical mission and to carry out Christ’s command to mathateusate panta ta ethne—disciple all the peoples of planet earth?
AEPM News and Views
We welcome readers to the Association of Evangelicals Professors of Missions supplement, “AEPM News and Views.” Granted, there’s nothing very new or original about that caption.
Editor’s Analysis: Making the Most of Management Theories
Missionary managers work not only in U.S. board offices, but all around the globe. They manage thousands of people and millions of dollars. Very few of them have had any professional training in management, but they have been swamped by a flood of various management theories and techniques.
Positive Possibilities of Mid-life Transitions
Often thought to be the exclusive property of the adolescent, transition is actually found in three stages of a person’s life.
Spare Them Western Music!
Before ethnomusicology has any relevance to missionaries, the term must not only be understood, but a particular theological point must be considered.
When Is a Homogeneous Church Legitimate?
To those aware of the recent debate concerning the “Homogeneous Unit Principle,” another in a long stream of articles on the subject may not be a welcome sight.
Doing Mission
Various articles on missions.
People Groups: Beyond the Push to Reach Them Lie Some Contrary Opinions
In the last decade what might be called the “unreached people groups” strategy has shaken the missions community to the core.