By Linleigh Roberts. When the “God-is-dead” theology emerged a couple of decades ago, the question was asked, “If those men really believed that, why don’t they forget about theology altogether and do something else?” Certainly, an alternative occupation would seem to be the logical course of action. The issue, how
Men's Ministries
The Wise Men and Their Search
By Frank Barker. The year was 5 BC. Herod the Great was king of the Roman territory of Judea. A very disturbing thing took place!
Now when Jesus was born in Beth
‘Preparing the Ground’
By Mary Lou Bonsack. Oneof the biggest people movements of this century is taking place on the border between Mexico and the United States. This 2,000 mile border separates one of the wealthiest countries in the world and one of the poorest. Dramatic changes are taking place on this border. “Maquiladora,” a Mexican term for “production-sharing” factories, is now a common term heard along this stretch of land between Brownsville and San Diego. American and foreign companies are building factories known as maquila plants. This program began in 1965 as a way to combat Mex
Church Planting as a Key Missions Strategy
By J. Philip Clark. The goal of the Presbyterian Church in Amer
Economic Trends and Their Impact on Missiology
Economics touches every single aspect of life – even missions. For exam
The Church: Witnessing Force or Mere Sending Agency?
By Les Thompson. Missionaries have been the backbone of God’s plan to tell others the Good Hews of God’s redemption since the days of Noah. We tend to think of missionaries as unusual – or, at best, special – at the very least, as different from ourselves. But in actuality missionaries down through the ages have simply been people who sensed a special call from God to leave their homelands and cross cultural boundaries, oceans and mountains to establish the Church of Jesus Christ in every corner of the world.
Non-Christians have lent missionary activity an air of comic opera: dowdy people under pith helmets dressed in wrinkled khakis, clumsily exporting our American ways of life rather than true religion. Hollywood jokingly portrays mis