”After approximately 50 church-plants I am still most struck by the words of a Gabbra elder from Northern Kenya. After my husband asked permission to go into his village to bring the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ, the village elder responded, ‘Yes, you may come, but may I ask you a question? If [...]
Category: Our Hand in Global Missions
And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. But when [...]
“Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s affliction for the sake of his body, that is the church.” Colossians 1:24-25 Ministry is a call to suffering. Paul says that he makes it habit of “filling up what is lacking in [...]
This is an excellent depiction of where Christian persecution is in the 10/40 window. Pray for persecuted believers! — Source: GMI.org ©2006
Sorrow & Blood: Christian Mission in Contexts of Suffering, Persecution, and Martyrdom Editors: William D. Taylor, Antonia van der Meer, Reg Reimer I’m currently reading Sorrow & Blood: Christian Mission in Contexts of Suffering, Persecution, and Martyrdom and it is probably one of the best purchases I’ve made this year. Sorrow and Blood is a [...]
I find that Christians either 1) do not have dreams from God for their life or 2) do not actual fulfill their dreams for God because of one single thing: they do not have a life of prayer. Without intimate dialogue with God, we’ll never find the purposes in his heart for our lives and [...]
In Philip Jenkin’ The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity, he does an unbelievable job of informing readers what the current scope of Christianity is in the world landscape. He builds on his previous work of suggesting that the Christian movement is moving from the North and West to the East and South. What [...]
