MISSIONS: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE LOCAL CHURCH?
A Plea for Gospel Sanity in Missions
By Aubrey Sequeira | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.21.2015Too often, mission work supported by Western churches is obsessed with numbers, over-awed by the supernatural, and over-eager for contextualization.
Africa, the Prosperity Gospel, and the Problem of Unguarded Churches
By Ken Mbugua | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.02.2015Missionaries who labor in reached parts of Africa are today faced with a society that has been inoculated against the gospel. So what do we do about it?
Your Bad Ecclesiology Is Hurting Us
By Mark Collins | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.21.2015When you send missionaries and when you partner with others to do so, you are exporting a doctrine of the church. Unfortunately, far too often we are exporting a bad and unbiblical one.
Stop Sending Missionaries: Why More Isn’t Always Better
By Steve Jennings | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.18.2015The workers are few, and the harvest is great. But that does not mean just any and all workers will do.
7 Things Your Church Should Not Do in Missions
By Zane Pratt | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.21.2015Modern technology and transportation makes direct engagement overseas so much easier. But just as important as deciding what to do is deciding what not to do.
MISSIONS: HELPING CHURCHES FIND THEIR WAY
9 Marks of Healthy Missions
By J. Mack Stiles | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 11.18.2015The best thing you can do for missionaries is to make sure you keep your church healthy. They can’t do the work there if churches are unhealthy here.
4 Practices of a Great Commission Church
By Mark Dever | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.21.2015Too often, a grotesque competitiveness marks evangelical churches. But a Great Commission church does not compete with other gospel-preaching churches.
5 Ways Your Church Can Get Involved in Global Missions Starting Tomorrow
By D. Platt, P. Akin | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.21.20152.8 billion people have little to no access to the gospel. What can we do about it, starting tomorrow?
What Would Happen if You Sent Your Best?
By Steve Jennings | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.21.2015Sending your best people means new and healthy churches will be planted, and your congregation will mature.
The Great Commission: Fulfilled by Churches and for Churches
By Ryan King | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.21.2015A primarily individualistic application of the Great Commission is more a product of our Western culture than from God’s Word.
Three Ways to Tie Global Missions into the Regular Diet of Your Preaching
By Matt Mason | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.10.2015We have a Great Commission Bible and serve a Great Commission Savior, who came into the world to seek and save the lost.
MISSIONS AND THE INDIVIDUAL CHRISTIAN
Take Your Job Overseas—Introducing Business for Missions
By Andy Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.16.2015Your ordinary vocational gifts and talents might be a treasure to a congregation in Malaysia or London or Istanbul or Dubai.
A Cross-Shaped Calling
By Tim Keesee | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.21.2015The missionary “calling” is not about us going so much as it is about us following in the bright wake of our risen King.
Is Every Christian a Missionary?
By Ken Caruthers | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.07.2015Is every Christian a “missionary”? It turns out this is not an easy question to answer.
One-on-One with the International Mission Board’s Executive Vice President
By 9Marks, S. Traeger | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.21.2015Over the last few years, a lot has changed at the IMB. 9Marks sat down with Sebastian Traeger to talk about it.
A Collection of Book Reviews on the Church in China
Review by Eric Beach | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.21.2015Here is a collection of several brief book reviews on the Christian church in China through the centuries.
Book Review: The 3-D Gospel: Ministry in Guilt, Shame, and Fear Cultures, by Jason Georges
Review by Jeremy Yong | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.21.2015Jason Georges, The 3-D Gospel: Ministry in Guilt, Shame, and Fear Culture. 3D Gospel, 2014, 82 pages. $8.99. I am a pastor who grew up in an honor-shame culture, so the … keep reading…
Book Review: Defending Substitution: An Essay on Atonement in Paul, by Simon Gathercole
Review by Sam Emadi | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.21.2015With Defending Substitution, Simon Gathercole has given us a compelling, rich, and lucid presentation of substitution in 1 Corinthians 15 and Romans 5.
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