Missions
Should You Stay or Go?
By Mark Dever | 04.26.2016Is the point of all this to say that some of you should leave your churches? Kind of. Some should go to help struggling churches. Some should plant new ones. Some should go overseas. And some should stay.
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…
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
