“Before we can participate in God’s mission, we must know that we are beneficiaries of God’s mission. We are not the rescuers; we are the rescued who merely bear witness to others who also need to be rescued.” —Mike Goheen
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The Word of God is precious in any language. With spiritual poverty evident all around the world, how do All-Nations teams decide where to focus their efforts? No Scripture Several hundred thousand people in Indonesia speak Sungai,* but no Scripture has been translated into their language. Globally, there are over 2,000 languages with no Scripture.
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“Jesus wants a society of redeemed people to show the world what the whole world would look like if everybody obeyed the King.” —John D Martin
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In a panel discussion at Camp Week, four brothers engaged a number of serious questions about “Tradition and Innovation in a Church Planting Paradigm.” To prepare for this in-depth discussion, we collected questions from Anabaptist church-planters and their senders. Follow this thoughtful discussion as our brothers draw from the Scriptures, history, and personal experience, to
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“We cannot go forth in mission to the world without attending to ourselves. This is not to suggest that we have to wait until we are perfect before we engage in mission. There never would have been any mission – Old or New Testament – if that had been the case. It means that part
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We are not called to create clones. We are called to make disciples. That is what Jesus said. That is what we need to do. —Frank Reed (Cultural Dimensions of the Gospel, blogpost)
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Wilbert R. Shenk spends the first 20 pages of this 130-page book (By Faith They Went Out) unpacking the power of the original Anabaptist mission movement. He summarizes the key themes of the original Anabaptism theology of missions as follows: 1. “An authenticating mark of the church is its missionary consciousness, a sense of being
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“One of the best ways to defeat paternalism is by teaching believers to read.” —Unknown
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“We have lost the eternal youthfulness of Christianity and have aged into calculating manhood. We seldom pray in earnest for the extraordinary, the limitless, the glorious. We seldom pray with real confidence for any good to the realization of which we cannot imagine in any way. And yet we suppose ourselves to believe in an
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I stood up to stretch my back and mop the sweat off my face. Stooping and bending to work in the millet field with a sleepy toddler on my back was tiring. I certainly didn’t have the stamina of my neighbors who could work all morning in the blazing sun with only an early morning
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