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Some Motivations for World Evangelism
As we prepare for our next class of students to arrive on campus in just one week, one of the things we look forward to is hearing their...
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
If the truth is that missions, the proclamation of the gospel to the nations, is a high priority on the list for our God and Savior, then we must now ask the question that I faced: How do I make this a priority in our church and not a side project?
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)
Part II of Amy Charmichael biography by Ian Hamilton. Amy Carmichael’s life had been moulded, shaped and styled, by the power of the Word. Amy’s life was shaped by her love to Jesus Christ and by an undeviating obedience to Christ. Amy saw men and women as the Bible sees them, “without hope and without God.”
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.