Each stage of church planting and development is important to the eventual maturity of a missions movement, and the result is predictable when any stage is neglected.
By-passing the Learning Stage almost always results in anemic movements. This most strikingly occurs when campaigners from the West seek to plant ...
Effective missionaries, having learned language and culture and shared their faith, begin the Growth Period with a vision of how God will use them to mobilize a movement in the area where they are working. They realize that their task is not merely to plant a church but ...
A three-day seminar on GVR's book Communicating Christ in Animistic Contexts (accessible online HERE). Corresponding PowerPoint: 2016 Communicating Christ in Animistic Contexts
“Differing worldviews compete within me!”
I was struck by this realization as I ministered to a small group of new Christians and seekers in Kenya during a time of famine. Crops were dying in the fields. Women were walking miles to carry water on their backs to their homes. Everyone ...
In the previous missiological reflection, I described theological reflection as the beginning point of ministry. Missionaries (that is, all Christian leaders) must yearn to know the heart and motivation of God— what God is about in his world and why he is doing what he is doing—so that their ...
The previous missiological reflection described the Missional Helix and attempted to show the intertwining, inseparable nature of theological reflection, cultural analysis, historical perspective, and strategy formation within the context of spiritual formation. This blog describes the role of theology within the Missional Helix.
A theology of mission describes the heart ...
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