Weekly in our little town in southern Mexico, early on Tuesday, we hear a distant airhorn. The “toot-toot” gets closer until finally it is at our door. It is a good sound: the trash truck! When it comes, we simply run the trash barrel out to the big stinky dump truck, toss the trash up to the...
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All-Nations Live, Fall 2020
Thursday, November 12, and Tuesday, November 17, 7:00 pm EST
Join us for a 1-hour update featuring the following:
..."When we look at the New Testament in its entirety and especially when we start to get to grips with the Old Testament, we see that God’s people are called to serve and to advocate as well as to preach the Good News. Indeed, the whole modern concept of the separation of the physical and...
"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
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?
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Several hundred thousand people in Indonesia speak Sungai,* but...
"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
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...
"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 of our...
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,...
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...