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I have learned immensely from interviewing church planters throughout the world. In January I interviewed an articulate, long-term evangelical missionary in Guadalajara, Mexico. He described the ups and downs of planting a cell-based church in urban Mexico. Toward the end of the interview I as ked, "What one thing would ...
Within the last three years two long-term missionaries in East Africa, men I count as personal friends, have fallen into sexual sin. "Impossible!" you say? That can not be!! Most "regular church people" perceive missionaries to be super-saints, just a little lower than Jesus. They surely could not sin! But ...
In the study of Missions it becomes apparent that the use of money is like a two-edged sword: It can empower missions on the one hand while hindering or destroying it on the other. Money can empower missions by (1) supporting effective missionaries to open new areas of the world ...
Bob Hofer of the Homewood Church of Christ in Birmingham, Alabama, describes his congregation’s effectiveness in missions as a “before and after story” (Hofer 1999). In 1986 the elders and missions leaders at Homewood were disappointed by the results of mission works that they supported. They realized that their ...