David S. Lim
What is the best way to understand and catalyze House Church Movements (HCM) or Church Planting Movements (CPM)? Recently, I have found a very helpful article to explain how and why HCMs work. It is “Kingdom Kernels: 4 Stages of a Movement” by Steve Smith, Neill Mims & Mark Stevens, published in Mission …
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TWO GREATS IN THE BIBLE: HOW THE GREAT COMMANDMENT ENCOMPASSES THE GREAT COMMISSION
Takaaki Hara
There are two Greats in the Bible that Christians, particularly those of the evangelical persuasion, regularly refer to: the Great Commandment (Matt 22:34–40) and the Great Commission (Matt 28:18–20)[1]. As Douglas Small says, “The Great Commission is proclamation—what we tell them. But the Great Commandment is incarnation—what they see in our lives.”[2] He further …
EDITORIAL: PROCLAIMING THE UNCHANGING WORD IN THE CHANGING WORLD
Timothy K. Park, Editor
Although the world we live in is constantly changing, the word of God never changes. How to proclaim the unchanging word of God in our ever-changing world is the task of the Church here on earth. In this 54th issue of Asian Missions Advance, Asian missions leaders have written on how to …
MISSIONS IN A BROKEN WORLD
H. Daniel Kim
PROLOGUE
Yes, it is true that we as missionaries are doing missions in a broken world. Not just a mildly broken world, but a profoundly and utterly broken world.
Everywhere you look, there are signs that the world is fractured and human beings are deeply hurting. Some people are in so much pain, feeling hopeless …
NATIONAL REPORT: NEPAL
Ram Prasad Shrestha
Nepal is a beautiful country sandwiched between two giant countries:Tibet-China to the North and India to the South. It is shaped like a rectangle where three parts of the border are shared by India, whereas the Northern Border is shared by Tibet-China. It is a landlocked nation with enormous cultural and geographical diversities.
‘There …
CYBERMISSIONS AND THE UNREACHED
John Edmiston
In the 21st century the first touch is nearly always a digital touch.
Long before most people ever meet an evangelical Christian they have heard about evangelicals in the media, seen their gospel Facebook posts, got their earnest emails, downloaded their crossover music and stumbled across their Christian websites. We evangelicals are sometimes present to …
BIBLE STORYTELLING MINISTRY AND GLOBALIZATION IN MISSION
Yon Soo Kim
Since the beginning the gospel of Christianity has been aiming for globalization. The phrase “Making disciples of all nations”[1] (µαθητευσατεπανταταεθνη) in Jesus’ Great Commission shows that the commission is not only for all nations, tribes and language groups in the world, and the promise and commandment of the Pentecost, but includes also in …
MAKING SENSE OF GOOD & EVIL: HIV& AIDS IN FOCUS
Diane Marshall
In what ways do poverty, hunger, HIV, gender discrimination, racism, human trafficking, poor governance, environmental degradation, and inequitable access to health services, education, land and resources create barriers to the gospel? How should we respond theologically and missiologically? In what ways might we, in our ignorance and through our actions or lack of action …
CREATIVE ARTS AS CULTURAL BRIDGE TO GLOBAL MISSION
Daniel J. Kim
In this article, I would like to propose a missiological strategy regarding the means of creative arts as cultural bridge to global mission. The focus of this thesis will be to establish the basic biblical theological framework for understanding the nature of art and its implications for mission. The outline of the thesis …
EDITORIAL: Communicating the Gospel in the Globalized World
Timothy K. Park, Editor
The rapid development of technology is one of the factors that has turned the world we live into a global village. Today, any kind of information may be obtained through the internet, and communicating through smartphone and internet is easy anytime, anywhere. Unlike today, in the first century, the gospel was communicated …