Stories

Lazarus is dead. These were the words of Jesus about a beloved friend, someone cherished in His heart. Later, the shortest and one of the most me...

“The key to the missionary problem is the missionaries. They believe in the presence of the Spirit of God, but they lack the encounter. There never...

Brown and Kenzo, whose fertile minds conceived the idea for this book, have stated it should be a “light” theology of mission for laity and clergy,...

I met Natasha in southern Russia in 1995. Russia was recovering from seventy years of Communist rule. She had just graduated from university with a...

In the New Testament, we read of Jesus giving the Great Commission to go into the world and proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ, and then we see...

The commission that Jesus gave His followers to go into all the world and preach the Gospel is a mission that continues for the Church today. Howev...

When we speak of the mission of the Church, the calling to the Church to make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:19), there are at least two ques...

I am indebted to a sermon by John Piper for the approach I have taken in this chapter (a member of my congregation gave it to me several years ago—...

In 1989 a remarkable event took place, forever changing the trajectory of history in Eastern and Central Europe. On November 8, 1989, the Berlin Wa...