Radical

For much of modern history, indigenous churches have been one of the great aims of cross-cultural church planting. The accepted strategy for reaching this goal has been what’s called the “three-self formula”: self-governing, self-supporting, and self-propagating local churches. More recently, contemporary missiologists have added a fourth principle: self-theologizing.

I recently spent many nights in a hospital room with a close friend recovering from a major stroke. She was young and healthy before her brain bleed, and her sudden crisis was a shock.

During the first nights, I’d sit next to her in the dark while she breathed through a ventilator, and I’d read the Songs of Ascent. Her favorite is Psalm 121: “I lift up my eyes to t...

Out of a population of 18.6 million, approximately 186,000 people in Kazakhstan claim to be Protestant Christians. As we consider the Church today, we can gain insight by looking back in history to see how and when the gospel was first brought to Kazakhstanis. So, how did Kazakhs...

What if your church’s future missionaries are already sitting in the pews, and no one realizes it? I’ve noticed that most churches identify missionaries reactively. We wait until someone raises his hand and expresses a desire to go overseas before he comes to mind as a future missionary.

There’s nothing wrong with waiting until someone expresses a desire to go overseas...

As many as two million Muslims from around the world are set to converge in Saudi Arabia from May 25-29 for the annual Hajj, one of the largest religious gatherings in the world.

The ancient pilgrimage is considered one of the highest acts of devotion by Muslims who s...