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African Missionary Candidates and William Chalmers Burns
This Radius Report doesn’t come from my normal desk in San Diego but from Lusaka Zambia. A group of us from Radius are visiting 5 seminaries/Bible...
Will Sending Agencies Be Able to Change?
It’s a very relevant question and one that may determine the viability and relevance for many sending agencies in the coming years. Some of the...
Responding to God
Responding to the Lord’s call: My journey in getting to Radius was quite unique and begins way back in 2012. That December, I went to the Urbana...
Why Teammates Matter in Missions
One of the areas of missions that gets little press but is of great importance is teammates. Good teammates are a great grace to church planting...
The Mandate to Train and Send Missionaries Well: A Lead Pastor’s Perspective
Being in full-time ministry for nearly 37 years, with the past 12 years as a lead pastor, I have had a lot of time to contemplate missions within...
The Way She Suffered: Reflecting on the life of Elisabeth Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot once asked, “Would you like to have the story of Daniel without the lions’ den? … Would you like to have the story of Joseph...
Four Fields: A Revised Version of DMM
As more and more folks have discovered the biblically suspect underbelly of Disciple Making Movements, I have begun to frequently hear, “Oh, we...
Lessons from the Life of Amy Carmichael (Part II)
Some years ago, Elisabeth Elliot made this striking comment about the impact of Amy Carmichael’s life on her own life: “She showed me the shape of...
Can you become a Christian without identifying with Christ?
A more recent missions practice has birthed the idea of the “secret believer” who has faith in Jesus in their hearts while remaining culturally, religiously, and socially indistinguishable from the rest of their community.
Our “Inefficient” God
Our God is often pleased to be “inefficient” with ways and means of accomplishing His purposes. Rarely in Scripture do we see an uninterrupted path from someone’s early years to the time of their ministry. Consider Joseph and his two years in prison, Moses and his years tending sheep in the wilderness, David and his time being chased by Saul, Paul and his season of deeply harming the church. These are the common winding paths of God’s providence in His people’s lives.
