I was reading a web article about Campus Crusades for Christ. I generally like CCC, although, like any group, there is plenty of room for criticism. The same could be said about Bill Bright, its founder. The article was pretty negative, but it had this quote made by Bill Bright: "If they're Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, …
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OKAY... CONFESSION TIME. I have a job in a missions organization (administrator of a Christian Counseling and Training Center). I also have had a role as missions director in more than one local church. I found myself drifting away from doing good work as missions director. Why? Because the churches had relatively little interest in …
I have to confess this a bit. I really enjoy missions work much more than church work. I am not alone in this. <I will put my confession in a follow-up post.> The Monastic movement in the early churches (Orthodox, Coptic, Nestorian, Roman Catholic, Celtic and Abyssinian... at least) was a rejection, in part, of …
A Quote from Roland Allen in "Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours. A Study of the Church in the Four Provinces" chapter 5 (ca 1912). "St. Paul did not convert or attempt to convert people by working miracles upon them. He did not attract people to Christianity by offering them healing. He did not heal …
The following is a great quote from "Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries" by Adolph von Harnack (1851-1930), from 1908 translated edition. This quote is from Volume 3, chapter 1 (section 366-369). The broader passage and related passages are available at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (see http://www.ccel.org/ccel/harnack/mission.v.i.html#fna_v.i-p2.1) Passage emphasizes the …
“Transformation is the progressive, ongoing, measurable, and supernatural impact of the presence and power of God working in, through, and apart from the body of Christ on human society and its structures. It involves seeking positive change in the whole of human life materially, socially, and spiritually as we recover our true identity as human …
I added a couple of documents. A. I added a new story to the Parables page. That is "Valleyview and River City". It is based on a story used by CHE (Community Health Evangelism/Education). B. I put a "book in the rough" on the Articles page. It is called "Thoughts on Wholistic Ministry in …