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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Page 27
... knowledge comes through what some would call " extrabiblical revelation . " I daresay that the standard - brand evangelical doctrine of " logos only " that we were taught might now find a place on an " en- dangered doctrines " list ...
... knowledge comes through what some would call " extrabiblical revelation . " I daresay that the standard - brand evangelical doctrine of " logos only " that we were taught might now find a place on an " en- dangered doctrines " list ...
Page 37
... knowledge might spread into the country round . . . . [ Thus Paul ] intended his congregation to become at once a centre of light.17 Paul's strategy was to evangelize a province by first evangelizing the cities , which were centers of ...
... knowledge might spread into the country round . . . . [ Thus Paul ] intended his congregation to become at once a centre of light.17 Paul's strategy was to evangelize a province by first evangelizing the cities , which were centers of ...
Page 39
... knowledge of the faith and cre- ates a fertile field in which cults may deceive converts . J. Hudson Taylor's China Inland Mission ( now Overseas Missionary Fellowship ) applied the philosophy of diffusion with unfortunate results ...
... knowledge of the faith and cre- ates a fertile field in which cults may deceive converts . J. Hudson Taylor's China Inland Mission ( now Overseas Missionary Fellowship ) applied the philosophy of diffusion with unfortunate results ...
Page 40
... knowledge and Christian ex- perience — assemblies where disciples are increasingly responsible for themselves before the Lord.28 If this spiritual weaning process is followed , churches will 40 OVERCOMING THE WORLD MISSIONS CRISIS.
... knowledge and Christian ex- perience — assemblies where disciples are increasingly responsible for themselves before the Lord.28 If this spiritual weaning process is followed , churches will 40 OVERCOMING THE WORLD MISSIONS CRISIS.
Page 41
... knowledge might spread into the surrounding country ( preferably by the native peoples of the province , who will be more effective ) . 5. The gospel must be proclaimed in such a way that those who receive it not only understand it but ...
... knowledge might spread into the surrounding country ( preferably by the native peoples of the province , who will be more effective ) . 5. The gospel must be proclaimed in such a way that those who receive it not only understand it but ...
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.