<A related, follow-on article is Power Encounter, Love Encounter, and Pandemic Love.> In Missions there is often 3 types of "encounters" discussed. Charles Kraft, in particular, has a lot in this area and include: Truth Encounter Allegiance Encounter Power Encounter Truth Encounter is the challenge of God's truth against the various lies that are encountered …
Month: February 2011
In Search of a Real Missionary
The following is an excerpt from Successful Mission Teams: A Guide for Volunteers by Martha Van Cise (New Hope Publishers, 1999) Excerpt from pages 145-147. A good book, definitely worth owning. "When my husband and I were serving as full-time missionaries in Haiti, we took a group of volunteers to a remote area in Northern …
Strengthening Missions Suport
I have been lax on adding new presentations. But I did, finally, add a new one, Strengthening Missions Support. It is in the Presentations page on this site. If you want some good PP Presentations in the area of evangelism in a post-modern/post-christian culture, or on growth growth, you could go to http://www.spencenetwork.org/PowerPoints.htm
Money and Missions, Reprise
Corrie Ten Boom, in her book “Tramp for the Lord”, speaks of how she used to ask for financial support for her work. However, at a certain point in her ministry, she believed God told her to stop asking for money. She goes on to say that she got two letters close to the same …
Missions Starts in the Home
Missions is an educational pursuit. Consider the verses Deut 6:4-9 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them …
Money, Missions, and the Deadly Spiral
When one’s priority is to keep up with the expectations and values of those around you, it affects your time and money. You buy a bigger house and a nicer car (or two cars). You involve yourself more expensive recreations and social functions. These put you in debt and fill up your time. To keep …
Missions and Government
We have certainly seen the challenges of having too close of a friendship between Church and Civil Government. In the US, it shows itself in strange ways: -Tax-exempt status for religious organizations (including churches) is related to not taking sides in elections. It seems strange that churches think it is acceptable to disconnect themselves from …