Overcoming the World Missions Crisis: Thinking Strategically to Reach the WorldRussell Penney Kregel Academic - 389 pages A wake-up call to evangelicals to return to the biblical mandate and model for missions before we have no unique message to proclaim. An alarming view of missions in the twenty-first century. |
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... Paul and his companions used are as applicable today as they were nearly two thousand years ago . Their example is ... Paul's prohibition against con- forming to this world ( i.e. , the thinking , actions , and speech of the world ) ...
... Paul and his companions used are as applicable today as they were nearly two thousand years ago . Their example is ... Paul's prohibition against con- forming to this world ( i.e. , the thinking , actions , and speech of the world ) ...
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... Paul's day , was an accounting term . " Notice that the crediting of righteousness took place in response to simple belief , not as a result of Abraham's works . Paul goes on to state , Now , to a workman wages are not credited as a ...
... Paul's day , was an accounting term . " Notice that the crediting of righteousness took place in response to simple belief , not as a result of Abraham's works . Paul goes on to state , Now , to a workman wages are not credited as a ...
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... Paul and his colleagues — constitute our basic pattern for missions today . SCRIPTURE AS FINAL AUTHORITY At one time in history , inherent in the title evangelical was a commitment to Scripture as the final authority of faith and ...
... Paul and his colleagues — constitute our basic pattern for missions today . SCRIPTURE AS FINAL AUTHORITY At one time in history , inherent in the title evangelical was a commitment to Scripture as the final authority of faith and ...
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... Paul realized that prayer could not be neglected as an ingredient in successfully reaching the nations , but he neither prayed against demons nor encouraged those with whom he cor- responded to do so . People's abandonment of belief in ...
... Paul realized that prayer could not be neglected as an ingredient in successfully reaching the nations , but he neither prayed against demons nor encouraged those with whom he cor- responded to do so . People's abandonment of belief in ...
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... Paul states , The God who made the world and all things in it , since He is Lord of heaven and earth , does not dwell in temples made with hands ; neither is He served by human hands , as though He needed any- thing , since He Himself ...
... Paul states , The God who made the world and all things in it , since He is Lord of heaven and earth , does not dwell in temples made with hands ; neither is He served by human hands , as though He needed any- thing , since He Himself ...
Contents
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The Destiny of the Unevangelized | 84 |
The Challenge of Religious Pluralism | 109 |
Demonology and the Mission Field | 207 |
Financial Support of the Missionary | 241 |
The Responsibility of the Local Church | 258 |
The Role of the Mission Agency | 280 |
The Missionarys Responsibility to the Sending Church | 293 |
ShortTerm Missions | 304 |
Appendixes | 343 |
the Guarani People for Christ | 349 |
The Necessity of Theological Training for the Missionary | 173 |
Women on the Mission Field | 189 |
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Page 48 - The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: 8 But because the LORD loved you...
Page 107 - And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse and against his army.
Page 71 - For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine ; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears ; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Page 49 - Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites ; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises ; whose are the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Page 61 - Their throat is an open sepulchre ; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Page 94 - Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High: and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there will be no end.
Page 97 - I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve.
Page 73 - But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth.
Page 102 - For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that we who are still alive and are left will be caught up with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.