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The 2022-2023 New Missionary Class 

As the resurrected Jesus gathered his disciples one last time before ascending to heaven, he charged them with spreading the news of his glorious plan for salvation throughout the earth. The small band of apostles was to multiply into a world-wide congrega...
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Send Missionaries and Inspire Senders

As a pastor on the Arabian Peninsula, I am both a goer and a sender. I went to the United Christian Church of Dubai (UCCD) in 2005. I’ll never forget the support and love of my sending church (Capitol Hill Baptist Church)—praying and ev...
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A Shipwreck

When I teach my students about how to discern the fruitfulness of a ministry’s theology, I tell them to look first at their methodology. They may have a decent doctrinal statement on their website, but their methodology is the true barome...
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Finding New Gospel Opportunities in COVID-19

The whole world is thinking about the whole world. In the first few months of this new decade, attention has turned to the disease COVID-19. From Asia to Europe and North America, governments and individuals face a shared challenge impactin...
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Why Teammates Matter in Missions

One of the areas of missions that gets little press but is of great importance is teammates. Good teammates are a great grace to church planting teams and are a living testimony to the unreached of what Christian fellowship looks like. Unfo...
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Methodology Reveals Theology

  “There are three great truths: 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That he has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That he means what he says.” (Hudson Taylor) In contemporary culinary circles, prior to the COVID-19 shutdown...
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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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Serving Jesus: Our Effort or His?

I have often struggled to understand what I should leave up to God’s sovereignty and what is my responsibility. Some people emphasize God’s sovereignty in salvation almost to the exclusion of human responsibility. For example, when Wil...
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Why Does God Leave Us in This World?

How well do you handle trials? I mean, when things get tough, or when you start to lose control a little bit? When the kids are about to drive you nuts, or when your boss is breathing down your neck about the deadline at work? When you’ve...
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4 Marks of a Missionary Call

“This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of an [overseer]1 he desires a good work . . .But let these also first be tested[.]” (1 Timothy 3:1, 10, NKJV). Perhaps the most frequently asked question in missiological cir...