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 20
... leaders such as those who signed the " Evangelicals and Catholics Together : The Chris- tian Mission in the Third Millennium " statement ( see " An Antibiblical and False Unity " below ) . An influence of this kind might easily lead to ...
... leaders such as those who signed the " Evangelicals and Catholics Together : The Chris- tian Mission in the Third Millennium " statement ( see " An Antibiblical and False Unity " below ) . An influence of this kind might easily lead to ...
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... March 29 , 1994 , when key Catholic and evangelical leaders signed a heretical document entitled " Evangelicals and Catholics Together : The 996 Christian Mission in the Third Millennium " ( ETC The Crisis in Missions 21.
... March 29 , 1994 , when key Catholic and evangelical leaders signed a heretical document entitled " Evangelicals and Catholics Together : The 996 Christian Mission in the Third Millennium " ( ETC The Crisis in Missions 21.
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... leadership of the Antiochan church set them apart ( Acts 13 : 2 ) . Thus , the first principle for missionary practice is that the leader- ship recognizes those whom God had chosen to be sent out . Second , note that those who were sent ...
... leadership of the Antiochan church set them apart ( Acts 13 : 2 ) . Thus , the first principle for missionary practice is that the leader- ship recognizes those whom God had chosen to be sent out . Second , note that those who were sent ...
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... Leadership , relationship , and moral conduct are all communicated best by our actions ; therefore , the missionary must take seriously the command , " You shall be holy , for I am holy " ( 1 Peter 1:16 nasb ) . If sound doctrine is ...
... Leadership , relationship , and moral conduct are all communicated best by our actions ; therefore , the missionary must take seriously the command , " You shall be holy , for I am holy " ( 1 Peter 1:16 nasb ) . If sound doctrine is ...
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... leaders , must know right doctrine and be able to study Scripture for themselves . A philosophy of diffusion — that is , reaching as many people as possible but without the " teaching " required to fulfill the Great Commission — spells ...
... leaders , must know right doctrine and be able to study Scripture for themselves . A philosophy of diffusion — that is , reaching as many people as possible but without the " teaching " required to fulfill the Great Commission — spells ...
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.