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How ABWE Is Responding to COVID-19

ABWE continues to monitor the outbreak and spread of COVID-19 (2019 coronavirus disease) around the globe, as well as plan for the potential impact to our ministries and missionaries. ABWE is asking missionaries in affected countries to follow basic preca...

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Panel: Why Marketplace Missions Matters But Isn’t a Silver Bullet

How can believers of all educational and vocational backgrounds use their skills in the marketplace for the Great Commission? In this episode, you’ll hear an expert panel address this topic at Cedarville University. The discussion was led b...

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Is All Theology Cultural?

Biblical authority is under attack. A missionary’s job is partly to make the transcendents truths of God’s word understandable within human language, context, and culture. But is it possible to know God’s objective truth, or are we alwa...

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What Current Events in Hong Kong Mean for Christians

Between 1-2 million people have been taking to the streets in Hong Kong—even singing Christian hymns in their rallies. What can believers learn from this complex situation? In this special episode, Alex Kocman and Scott Dunford—a former m...

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Race, Evolution, and Missions

If missionaries are to carry the gospel across cultural and national lines, it’s critical that they have a thoroughly biblical theology of race and ethnicity. And while much of modern progressive, secular culture repudiates anything remotel...

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Are Honor and Shame the Keys to Cross-Cultural Evangelism?

In the West, we tend to think in terms of law, justice, guilt, and innocence. Our gospel presentation naturally picks up this flavor. But in many Eastern cultures, honor and shame are the dominant values—and in tribal contexts, it’s fear ...

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What Seeking the Welfare of the City Means

Point, step, and throw. When my son was in Little League, his coach’s simple, much-repeated instructions on pitching technique became etched in my memory. Though this regimented approach produces some rather rigid pitches, it instills at ...

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Team Conflict: the Number One Reason Missionaries Go Home?

Globally, 71% of missionaries who return home each year leave the field for preventable reasons. What might be the biggest factor? We believe it all comes down to team dynamics. What is it about cross-cultural ministry that is so uniquely str...

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The Kingdom of God and the Authority of the Great Commission

We speak so much of the “kingdom of God”—but what does that mean, and how does Jesus’ present reign in heaven impact our mission? These questions are often neglected, misunderstood, or purposefully avoided in American evangelicalism, ...

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How Much Contextualization Is Too Much?

Today in missions there’s a lot of talk about contextualization. The “C scale” developed by John Travis makes a case for so-called insider movements—professing believers in the Islamic world who follow Jesus, yet remain culturally and...

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