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Business as Missions…What is the Goal?

Business as Missions…What is the Goal?

The Goal Business as Missions (BAM) and its ‘cousin’ Business for Transformation (B4T) are here to stay.  They have been around for a while and with many countries showing increasing resistance to the traditional missionary role it is wonderful to see the church, and...
Why Getting Fluent Today Is Harder Than Ever

Why Getting Fluent Today Is Harder Than Ever

Undergirding any serious approach to sharing the gospel cross-culturally is the ability to think and communicate at a serious level of understanding in the language and culture of the person you are reaching.  Only recently has this begun to be questioned and,...
Why is it Church Planters Rarely Plant a Church

Why is it Church Planters Rarely Plant a Church

I realize this is a touchy topic.  It is difficult to address.  Statistics on overall attrition cover some of this, but many missionaries who remain within a mission agency do not finish their primary mission.  Of course the question “What does it mean to finish?” can...
Why Focus on Pioneer Church Planting

Why Focus on Pioneer Church Planting

The short answer is… because healthy New Testament churches do not organically ‘spring up’ among new converts on their own. In the middle of Paul’s grand declaration in Eph 2:11-3:16, as he speaks of this new entity called ‘the church’, he states how the...