“How far did Jesus separate the spiritual from the physical? They are not equal, but the 2nd commandment is to love our neighbor as ourselves…I don’t believe that Jesus separated the physical, social, economic problems so far from their spiritual lives.” —Billy North
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“The Bible encourages us to build communities of believers, where the “nearness” is based on faith in Christ rather than blood relations.” —Roland Muller (from the book THE MESSENGER, THE MESSAGE AND THE COMMUNITY)
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In our weekly prayer time over the phone this morning, a member shared this excerpt from a letter by Ignatius, a disciple and church leader on his way to martyrdom in the early second century. What can stop us, when the kingdom of God and His righteousness is our passion! [W]hen I suffer, I shall
“Let me put it this way: God will do, as a result of the praying of the humblest one here what otherwise He would not do.” —S. D. Gordon
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SERVING THE WHOLE PERSON AND THE WHOLE COMMUNITY God gives abilities to every person and resources to every community. Therefore, we serve the community by teaching its members to develop and use their skills and resources, and not to depend on what we do and bring. That is our community development philosophy, but how does
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“No one language can capture the glory of God” —Larry Hayashi
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Over one billion people, according to a report published within the past year by IMB, fall into the categories of unengaged and/or unreached with less than 2% Evangelical Christians and no active church planting within that group during the past two years.[1] These recent IMB (International Mission Board) statistics indicate that these 1+ billion are
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“I have never met a missionary who had extraordinary impact in their ministry if their life did not include extraordinary surrender to the principle that to live is Christ and to die is gain.” —Jason Mandryk
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Why do Christians translate their holy book when some religions do not? Can Scriptures translated into another language still be the Word of God? Why are we sure that Bible translation must happen? Our Bible Translation Philosophy addresses questions like these. Read on, or click here for a downloadable version. Words
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“The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.” —Stephen Covey
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