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4 Biblical Foundations for Contextualization

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 tend to thi...

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Dear Church, Missions Is Not For Your Own Discipleship

As Jesus was completing his work on the earth and ascending back to heaven, he gave us the “Great Commission,” the final command, the last words, by which we should all—as Christians—be living our lives: And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying...

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Leverage Your Short-Term Mission Trips for Long-Term Goals

I’ve often wondered how the Apostle Paul would utilize modern technology in missions. Would he eagerly promote the short-term missions (STM) surge to the nations? While I’m confident he’d leverage global travel and communication technology for the go...

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A City Under a Hill: 5 Problems With Insider Movements

Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists. Planting churches among the world’s remaining unreached peoples will mean engaging seriously in larger socio-cultural contexts permeated by one of these three major systems of belief and practice. From a human perspective...

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How (Not) to Engage Unreached People and Places

Whenever missionaries make disciples among unreached peoples, the missionary task includes starting a new church. That’s the implicit logic of the Great Commission (Matt. 28:18–20) with its call to baptize new believers. (Baptize them i...

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The Foolish Quest for a ‘Silver Bullet’ in Global Missions

We have an insatiable desire for fast results and quick fixes. Over the years I’ve lived overseas, it’s become clear that this yearning has touched our missions methods as well.As I’ve read books on missions and sat through seminars, ...

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Condemnation or Calling?

Guilt manipulation is a multibillion-dollar industry. Across Western culture, Christians are encouraged to feel shame by everyone from non-profit advocates, community fundraisers, and fitness gurus to cultural commentators, policymakers, an...

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The Promise and Power of God’s Word

One of the great temptations in Christian life and ministry is to lose confidence in the Word of God. Among conservatives this usually happens subtly, not blatantly. No self-respecting evangelical would ever admit to such a loss of confiden...

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Union with Christ in Hebrews

When we think of the places in Scripture where we find the doctrine of union with Christ, most people, especially Biblical scholars, immediately think of all the material in Paul’s letters. Paul uses the words “in Christ” numerous times point to this...

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7 Planks for Building a Church Missions Vision

For church leaders, engaging in missions is like “eating right”—it’s something we all try to do, know we should be doing better, and rarely executed with any specific plan or strategy. But as with diet, exercise, education, finance,...

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