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Missiology Archive
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Book Review: An Introduction to the Science of Missions
Book Review: An Introduction to the Science of Missions By J.H. Bavinck Reviewed by Andy Johnson An Introduction to the Science of Missions Presbyterian and Reformed, 1960. 324 pages. $16.99 The other night I told my wife I was going to begin this book review by asking the reader, “If you were going to be marooned alone on an island, [...] -
What does it take to be an effective church planter?
Charles Ridley conducted a study of church planters in the United States and Canada. His subjects in the study represented 13 Protestant denominations. Based upon his research and subsequent field testing, he developed a list of 13 prominent performance dimensions. For over a decade, these dimensions have been used to select church planters. [...] -
Book Review: Church Planting Movements
By David Garrison Reviewed by Ed Roberts Church Planting Movements: How God Is Redeeming a Lost World WIGTake Resources, 2003. 362 pages. $18.95 Sometimes a book contains important biblical truths and helpful suggestions even though its theological methodology or hermeneutic is flawed. In that situation, I might recommend the book, but only if the reader has good biblical and [...] -
Book Review: Let the Nations Be Glad!
Book Review: Let the Nations Be Glad! By John Piper Reviewed by Robin Let the Nations Be Glad! The Supremacy of God in Missions Baker Academic, 2004. $14.99 Growing up in the United Kingdom, I always had an interest in what God was doing globally, yet I was fairly ignorant of the “missions world.” For the last five years [...] -
Seven Seasons of Church Planting
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Why and How I Am Tweeting
By John Piper, June 3, 2009 I see two kinds of response to social Internet media like blogging, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and others. One says: These media tend to shorten attention spans, weaken discursive reasoning, lure people away from Scripture and prayer, disembody relationships, feed the fires of narcissism, cater to the craving for attention, fill the [...] -
Is it Lying?
Lying, Hostile Nations and the Great Commission By a missions strategist for Central Asia Can missionaries traveling to a country that’s hostile to Christianity and the Great Commission lie about their reasons for coming? Can they point to a secondary purpose for coming? -
Contextualization in the Muslim Context
Putting Contextualization in its Place By a missions strategist for Central Asia Contextualization is one of the hottest topics in missions today. Simply put, contextualization is the word we use for the process of making the gospel and the church as much at home as possible in a given cultural context. American Christians have a tendency to think [...] -
Pragmatism, Pragmatism Everywhere!
By Andy Johnson A friend and I were riding in his car after lunch vigorously discussing a controversial topic in missiology, and with good reason. We served together on the board of trustees for a mission sending organization, and a number of board members had become concerned about a particular book on evangelizing Muslims. The book [...] -
Will the Real Church Planter Please Stand Up
Much of the Church is in competition with the world for popularity these days. The world is very good at capturing people’s attention and affections because it targets and appeals to the pleasures of humanity. The church, on the other hand, tends to be very poor at “selling” its product because the message of the [...] -
Which is better stewardship of church resources?
Which is a better use of Kingdom resources: saving a dead/dying church or starting a new vibrant church? Maybe the best use of resources is to encourage dead/dying churches to actually start new churches. Many such churches have plenty of unused resources. The whole process could revive the existing church and plant a new [...] -
How Do We Revitalize Dead Churches?
We should help dying churches plant new churches. It very well may result in two vibrant churches; it will at least produce one vibrant church; it is doubtful that it will produce two dying churches. Why might this work? It will work because this is what churches are meant to do. [...]