Missions
A Church Questionnaire for Supported Missionaries
By Andy Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 03.01.2010In an effort to annually assess our missionary workers’ needs and activities, Capitol Hill Baptist Church sends the following questionnaire to all of the workers it supports directly or indirectly … keep reading…
Cultivating a Culture of Missions in a Small Church
By Tom Ascol | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 02.26.2010Small churches are not exempt from the work of missions, nor should they want to be.
Sending Overseas Missionaries in Community
By C. Bug, G. Tissiere | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 02.26.2010God’s desire is to reach the nations for his glory through church planting.
Putting Contextualization in its Place
By Anonymous | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 02.26.2010Every Christian alive today is actively involved in contextualization.
Pragmatism, Pragmatism Everywhere!
By Andy Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 02.26.2010Could there be an underlying theological disagreement about which authority actually shapes and informs methodological discussions?
Missions Partnerships from the Home Church’s Perspective
By Andy Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 02.26.2010I want to offer six principles for partnering with overseas workers for the purpose of global evangelism.
Missions Partnerships from a Field Worker’s Perspective
By Ed Roberts | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 02.26.2010But how should churches and missionaries decide whom to partner with?
Lying, Hostile Nations, and the Great Commission
By Anonymous | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 02.26.2010Can missionaries traveling to a country that’s hostile to Christianity and the Great Commission lie about their reasons for coming?
How to Get Businesspeople into Missions
By Anonymous | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 02.26.2010It’s the members with real business skills who may provide the best access for Christians to obtain access to closed or restricted countries.
How American Christians Can Help Christians in Zambia
By Conrad Mbewe | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 02.26.2010In Zambia, the only free television channel that we have twenty-four hours a day is Trinity Broadcasting Network.
Guidelines for Deciding Whom a Church Supports
By Andy Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 02.26.2010We cannot give adequate attention to the whole world and to everyone who might choose to move overseas.
Developing Missions Networks Without a Denomination
By Jeremy Pace | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 02.26.2010The institutionalized structure of denominations at least lessens the biblical responsibility of a local church to equip ministers of reconciliation with the message of reconciliation.
Wanted: Kingdom Families
By Anonymous | 9Marks Journal: Family & Parenting | 02.25.2010For that reason, even before asking whether your family should stay or go, it may be worth asking whether or not you have a Kingdom perspective at all.
Book Review: Church Planting Movements, by David Garrison
Review by Ed Roberts | 07.25.2009Should you read this book? Probably not.