I have often been impressed with the way the Chalmers Center works through indigenous churches to help locals come to understand their own abilities, resources, and dignity while helping them emerge from impoverished circumstances. Their recent newsletter showcased one example of a Peruvian group experiencing the satisfying results of beginning
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The City on the Hill The Great Commission is not great when it is utilitarian. It is reduced to what Dr. Bob Moffitt has called the Greek Commission, to save souls for heaven. It is the Great Commission when it has a kingdom focus. Jesus taught his disciples to pray
What are the foundations of Great Commission Utilitarianism? Every theme or issue has its grounding in a worldview or several worldviews. Utilitarianism was born out of a materialistic, pragmatic worldview. This was driven into Western thinking through secular humanists like Darwin, Dewey, and Freud. Instead of defending biblical theism when
A friend of mine recently returned from Afghanistan where he worked as a consultant for a major relief and development organization. While spending the night at a Christian guest house in Kabul, he saw sitting on a coffee table, a lesson from the Disciple Nations Alliance “Worldview and Development” curriculum
When God appeared to Moses on Mount Sinai, he passed before him and proclaimed his name (Ex. 34:5-7). What was the first word God used to describe himself? Compassion. Indeed, this quality is at the very center of his nature. As Marvin Olasky reminds us in The Tragedy of American Compassion, compassion
Winter reminds us that “the First Era” of Protestant missions (from 1800 to 1910) was “Kingdom Mission” focused, as the wonderful first chapter of The Legacy of William Carey by Ruth and Vishal Mangalwadi so powerfully illustrates. The “Second Era” (from 1865 to 1980) “introduced a distinct polarization between those concerned
During my senior year of college I sensed God’s call to work with the poor. I attended the Urbana missions conference that year (1987), and while there applied (and was later accepted) to serve overseas with Food for the Hungry. Sometime during the spring of 1988, I met with the
On May 20, Dr. Ralph Winter, veteran missionary to Guatemala and missions activist extraordinaire, went to be with the Lord. Among his many achievements, Dr. Winter, along with his wife Roberta, founded the U.S. Center for World Mission in Pasadena, and helped found the popular missions training program, Perspectives on the
You may have missed one of the greatest free articles on our website if you have not yet read Darrow Miller’s Agriculture and the Kingdom of God. Darrow recently referenced a phenomenal example from the article of another impoverished community that was brought into prosperity as a result of biblical
This is post 8 of 9 in the series “Music that Writes Culture” Music that Writes Culture, Part 1 Music that Writes Culture, Part 2 Music that Writes Culture, Part 3 Music that Writes Culture, Part 4 Music that Writes Culture, Part 5 Music that Writes Culture, Part 6 Music
