EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 40 of 160 · 3,822 in all.
Education for Behavior Change: Three Essential Stories
Motivating people to change behavior is difficult. We hang tenaciously onto habits because they have deep roots in our cultural values and beliefs.
Unity in Community: The Vision of the Church in Ephesians
“You keep talking about community, but all we can think of is the neighborhood where we live,” is the response I got.
Dowry in Africa: A Wife Purchased or a Wife Cherished?
The dowry is going the way of many other important cultural practices in Africa —down the hill of eroding values. The going rate for an educated wife in Kenya today could be as much as a Mitsubishi Pajero.
The Secret Efficiency of Faith Missions
At a recent conference of Christian organizations, my roommate told me of a donor retreat his agency had just sponsored where the two-day cost, including golf, was $50,000. It reminded me of a conversation I had recently had with someone I met at an Urbana missions convention.
Insider Movements and Outsider Missiology
There is confusion today between process and purpose. That which is a common phase in the conversion of individuals is being made by many into an ultimate objective or strategy. It’s called insider movements.
Letters to the Editor
Are We Really about Church Planting? Several quotes caught my attention in Larry Sharp’s article “Are We Really about Church Planting?” (July 2005). Twice he mentions the “end-in-view” church planting model/strategy; once he notes: “If church planting becomes the work of national believers, missionaries don’t have to…
The Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Few topics have more coverage on the Web than HIV/AIDS. A Google search results in nearly ninety million hits. Having been a major world concern for years, AIDS finally seems to be gaining broad attention by evangelical Christians worldwide.
Missions and Web Outreach
“Online outreach is an innovative response to today’s high-tech world. It is possible to evangelize one billion people through this medium.” —Tetsunao Yamamori, International Director, Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization
What I Have Learned from Middle Eastern Christianity
Over the last twenty years one of the great privileges of my life has been the many opportunities I have had to meet Arab Christians in Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Palestine.
Middle Mission
Consider the following idea from a young person interested in overseas missions: “Maybe there would be merit in removing the categorical labels of ‘short-term’ and ‘long-term’ and instead embracing those who are interested and committed, and giving them tools to help them on whatever journey they are going.”
What Makes Mission Christian?
Although Christian mission may seem easily definable, there is a growing divide among evangelicals today regarding the fundamental meaning, role and purpose of this mission.
Singing the Lord’s Song in a Global World: The Dynamics of Doing Critical Contextualization through
Whether in a post-modern setting, a non-Western urban context or among an unreached people group, music serves as a focal point within Christian churches.
Reflections on the Loss of Dale
Paul and Dale Stock were born and grew up in Pakistan. Their parents, Fred and Margie Stock, have been serving in Pakistan for nearly fifty years.
Development: A Term in Need of Transformation
What is development? The question was raised in a letter from several missionary colleagues I had recruited for Leadership Education And Development (LEAD), a program I was starting.
Practical Suggestions for Good Stewardship in Medical Missions
Most short-term medical missions today are using massive amounts of resources. And yet, people are still living in unsanitary conditions and having to deal with preventable diseases.
Education for Behavior Change: Three Essential Stories
Motivating people to change behavior is difficult. We hang tenaciously onto habits because they have deep roots in our cultural values and beliefs.
Unity in Community: The Vision of the Church in Ephesians
“You keep talking about community, but all we can think of is the neighborhood where we live,” is the response I got.
Grace and Greed in a People Movement to Christ in Nepal
The most astonishing story to come out of the church in Nepal since its inception fifty years ago is the movement to Christ of a large number of people belonging to the Tamang community.
Dowry in Africa: A Wife Purchased or a Wife Cherished?
The dowry is going the way of many other important cultural practices in Africa —down the hill of eroding values. The going rate for an educated wife in Kenya today could be as much as a Mitsubishi Pajero.
The Secret Efficiency of Faith Missions
At a recent conference of Christian organizations, my roommate told me of a donor retreat his agency had just sponsored where the two-day cost, including golf, was $50,000. It reminded me of a conversation I had recently had with someone I met at an Urbana missions convention.
Insider Movements and Outsider Missiology
There is confusion today between process and purpose. That which is a common phase in the conversion of individuals is being made by many into an ultimate objective or strategy. It’s called insider movements.
Letters to the Editor
Are We Really about Church Planting? Several quotes caught my attention in Larry Sharp’s article “Are We Really about Church Planting?” (July 2005). Twice he mentions the “end-in-view” church planting model/strategy; once he notes: “If church planting becomes the work of national believers, missionaries don’t have to…
Let’s Get Real about Missionary Team Chemistry
What is the theological explanation for a missionary team meltdown?
Internet Resources on Contextualizing Ministry among Muslims
Perhaps no other topic has generated more recent interest—not to mention heat, light, and storms!—among missionaries than contextualizing the Christian faith in Islamic settings.