EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 54 of 160 · 3,822 in all.
Relief Work, Development Work: Complement or Conflict?
Increasingly, overseas service involves health care, agriculture, economics, education and related community development approaches as the means to do ministry in the country.
Letters to The Editor
Our readers write.
Wisdom and Information
The Internet has made information instantly available. Twenty years ago even the world’s most sophisticated intelligence agencies would have drooled over comparable access to it.
More Than a Window
Beyond doubt, the 10/40 Window as a trend has mobilized many like never before.
Christian Weddings in Japan: Ministry or Mammon?
The entire concept of making a business of “Christian” weddings has sparked an ongoing and, at times, rather heated debate.
Missions on the Web
In this edition of Missions on the Web we break with our tradition of developing a Web page for MisLinks and asked the developers of five key Web sites that support mission to give us a behind-the-scenes explanation of their creations.
Should Missionaries Start Web Movements
We came to Uganda as a traditional rural church planting team, hoping to start a Web movement of evangelical Christ-centered churches through the Busoga region of Uganda.
Technological Solutions to Missionary Problems
No one can deny that the widespread growth and adoption of technology in society has heralded a new era with new realities.
The Dark Side of the Internet
Our purpose is not to speak to this issue authoritatively, but to present the problem in hopes that it may stimulate further discussion and management in the larger missions community.
The Missionary and Porn
Our wives had just left the room where we had been eating. Once they were out of hearing range, my guest leaned towards me and in a whisper, said, “Jim, I need to talk with you about a very sensitive issue.”
Halting an Exodus with Satellite Television
It’s the birthplace of Christ and of the Church. Yet Christians are leaving the Middle East in droves. Sixty percent of believers have emigrated from the region since the 1950s.
Relief Work, Development Work: Complement or Conflict?
Increasingly, overseas service involves health care, agriculture, economics, education and related community development approaches as the means to do ministry in the country.
The Best Missionary Training Model
The author assesses three primary training models: Providers (42%), Out-sourcers (31%), and Partners (19%).
Letters to The Editor
Our readers write.
Wisdom and Information
The Internet has made information instantly available. Twenty years ago even the world’s most sophisticated intelligence agencies would have drooled over comparable access to it.
More Than a Window
Beyond doubt, the 10/40 Window as a trend has mobilized many like never before.
Understanding Conversion
In this article I will suggest a few key issues of conversion and then, echoing the perspectives of my friends from Russia and other countries, offer some applications for our approach to cross-cultural evangelism.
A Testimony for Missions: Respect or Rejection?
How should missions proceed within the clash of civilizations? How should American missionaries operate within the context of anti-Western sentiment?
A Church Built by Muslims
As the Muslim chief and I stood beside my white Toyota wagon, the traditional African gestures and greetings were exchanged. The scorching Saharan sun was beating down on all of us. Men greeted the chief and then turned to me. All of us were shaking hands and gesturing to our own hearts and foreheads showing that no…
Growing Churches in Resistant Areas
In early 1997, a regional church development working group asked what could be learned from existing churches to benefit those planting new churches of Muslim background believers (MBBs).
Free to Live under the Law: A Model for Islamic Witness
I meant well. My heart was filled with love for my Muslim friends and I wanted them to know how liberating salvation in Christ was. The more acquainted I became with my friends’ religion, the more I realized how bound they were to the plethora of futile rituals.
How Islam Sees Itself
Ever since 9/11 we have been bombarded with generalizations as to the peaceful nature of Islam.
As the World Draws Lines…
Ever since the start of my current term in 1999, I have seen a progressive hardening of the Muslim front in my city, and world events have conspired to block my efforts to integrate into the Muslim world around me.
The Web and World Religions
We devote the majority of this article to three categories—general religion sites, new religions and cults, and Islam—followed by briefer coverage of about a dozen other religions in alphabetical order.