missions
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Being Before Sending: The Formation Crisis Behind Missionary Attrition
Before He sent them anywhere, Jesus first called the Twelve to be with Him (Mark 3:14). With 71% of missionary attrition preventable, the church’s…
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Fewer Partners, Greater Depth: Four Moves for a Missions Strategy
Most missions committees don’t decide by strategy. They decide by whoever asks the loudest or asks last. Four moves change that: focus, balance, a…
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Mission Is Identity, Not Department
Departments have budgets and annual reports; identity shapes every decision. If the missions department closed tomorrow, would your church still be sent?
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The Third Stop: Which Samaria Is Your Church Walking Around?
Acts 1:8 gives four stops: Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth. Most churches skip the third. Which Samaria is yours walking…
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The New Generation Is Missional — With Different Questions
52% of engaged young Christians see themselves as potential missionaries — but 42% say mission is tainted by colonialism. The new generation is not…
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The Most Fruitful Innovation in World Missions Today Is Two Thousand Years Old
The most fruitful mission strategies today share one ancient pattern: moving Scripture, ministry, and leadership closer to ordinary believers. Paul put the model in…
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The Center of Christianity Keeps Moving
From Jerusalem to the Mediterranean, Europe, and across the Atlantic, Christianity’s center has never stayed where we found it. What mission history teaches the…
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Refugees in a Foreign Land
Christians live with a tension: we are citizens of nations, yet our identity and home are found in Christ. Scripture describes God’s people as…
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The Similarities between the Missionary Movement and Reality TV
Reality TV manufactures drama to keep its audience; the missionary movement can do the same with its newsletters. On testimony versus theater, and the…
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Day of Pentecost
From Israel’s harvest festival to the multicultural mission of the Church: what Pentecost means for every Christian, and why every believer is in some…