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A Lesson from Jose: Understanding the Patron/Client Relationship
James Tino
Aside from the discipling/mentoring aspect, there are at least four arenas in which a proper understanding of patronage will have an impact on the effectiveness of missionary service.
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A Response to Dual Allegiance
Bruce L. Bauer
The author investigates the underlying causes of dual allegiance—and offers biblical responses to eight situations where dual allegiance is commonplace.
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Coaching for On-field Development
Keith E. Webb
It is time mission leaders rethink how they help missionaries develop. Coaching is one answer to effectively developing missionaries on the field.
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Discerning When We Have Completed What God Has Assigned to Us
Daniel Bacon
Five ways to discern when a missionary assignment is coming to an end.
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Good-to-Great Church Planting: The Road Less Travelled
Dietrich Schindler
Exploring the regions beyond simply successful church planting and explaining how church planting can rise to become great in nature.
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Missionary Burnout: Who is Adequate for These Things?
Gregory S. Waddell
Speaking from experience, the author shares how missionaries and leaders can identify burnout—and offers five steps to recovery.
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The Need for Field-based Counselor Training in Evangelical Missions
Dennis Bowen
While Christian counseling has grown in North America, this is not the case in other parts of the world. Bowen discusses field-based training for nationals in Christian counseling today.
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The Sharia of God: A Contextual Bridge for Islamic Contexts
Bradford Greer
By identifying themselves as people who love and follow the Sharia of God, missionaries ministering to Muslims can better communicate the Christian faith and disciple those who seek to follow Jesus.
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Transforming Chaos into Beauty: Intentionally Developing Unity in Church Plants
David Dunaetz
A unified church-planting community will have both high relationship cohesiveness and high task cohesiveness.
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| Ÿ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
Our Reader's Write
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| Ÿ A SECOND LOOK: EDITORIAL BY EMQ EDITOR GARY CORWIN |
Evangelical Mission Values
Gary Corwin
Four constant values have reliably guided the evangelical movement’s practice of mission: compulsion, courage, certainty, and clarity.
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| Ÿ PERSPECTIVES: EMQ GUEST EDITORIAL |
Building Sustainable Funding in Eurasia
G. K. D.
Coming up with models for funding parachurch organizations that work in Eurasian cultures will take creativity, hard work, and failed attempts.
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| Ÿ IN THE WORKSHOP |
What Are Best Practices of Church Planting among Muslims?
Steven Downey
“Is there any hope in reaching Muslims for Christ when there are so many obstacles?”
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| Ÿ MISSION RESOURCES ON THE WEB |
A Proverbial Gold Mine
A. Scott Moreau and Mike O'Rear
In this installment of Missions on the Web, we provide you with access to proverbs from around the world.
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| Ÿ BOOK REVIEWS |
Christian Worship Worldwide: Expanding Horizons, Deepening Practices
Charles E. Farhadian, ed.
Essays on the worship revelation taking place in today's global world.
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How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity
Thomas C. Oden
Oden makes a plea for a growing generation of young African scholars to discover their heritage, to recover the spiritual and intellectual roots of Christian thought formed by early African Christianity.
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In the Name of Jesus: Exorcism among Early Christians
Graham H. Twelftree
Third in a series of books by Twelftree on exorcism.
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Missions in Contexts of Violence
Keith E. Eitel, ed.
A collection of instructive essays and case studies.
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Pilgrims of Christ on the Muslim Road: Exploring a New Path Between Two Faiths
Paul-Gordon Chandler
This book is based on the life and ministry of Syrian novelist Mazhar Mallouhi, a self-proclaimed “Sufi Muslim follower of Christ.”
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Reconstructing Christianity in China: K. H. Ting and the Chinese Church
Philip L. Wickeri
Wickeri’s biography of Bishop K.H. Ting combines research in Chinese and English, close reading of Ting’s extensive writing, and several personal interviews with Bishop Ting.
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Rethinking Christ and Culture: A Post-Christendom Perspective
Craig A. Carter
In this book, Carter advances the thesis that we must move from a Christendom to a post-Christendom way of thinking about the Christ and culture problem.
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The Bible and Mission in Faith Perspective: J. Hudson Taylor and the Early China Inland Mission
Christopher E. M. Wigram
Christopher E. M. Wigram's book expands our knowledge of Taylor by analyzing the way he used the Bible for doing missions.
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The Two Tasks of the Christian Scholar: Redeeming the Soul, Redeeming the Mind
William Lane Craig and Paul M. Gould, eds.
This book explores for contemporary academics the challenge posed a quarter of a century earlier by Charles Malik: recapturing the great universities for Jesus Christ can and must be done through scholars who live out an integrated focus on the two tasks of saving the soul and the mind.
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Theology in the Context of World Christianity: How the Global Church is Influencing the Way We Think
Timothy C. Tennent
Tim Tennent’s book asks, “What can the worldwide Church learn from the theological reflection going on in the Majority World Church, reflection which has largely been ignored in Western theological circles?”
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Understanding God’s Heart for Children: Toward a Biblical Framework
Douglas McConnell, Jennifer Orona, and Paul Stockl
Written by practitioners, teachers, and theologians, this book offers hope for children through establishing a biblical framework that counteracts the secular devaluing of children.
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Water from a Deep Well: Christian Spirituality from Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries
Gerald L. Sittser
Gerald Sittser’s book connects the dots between the “old” and “new” ways of being the people of God.
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