Articles for tag: Missiology

May 17, 2020

An Acts 2 Movement: Restoring the Dynamic Life of the First Church

By Tyler McKenzie I was born, raised, baptized, and ordained in Restoration Movement churches. I’ve served all my years in ministry in the Restoration Movement. I married a Restoration Movement girl. I got a Restoration Movement degree. I’m Restoration Movement tried and true. But that’s not why I love our movement. I love the Restoration Movement for what it stands for. It is a movement of churches aiming to restore the dynamic life of the first church in Acts. That church is worth restoring. It’s a movement marked by the pioneering grit of Jesus’ apostles trying to establish Jesus’ church

November 5, 2017

Christian Standard

Mission & Evangelism

Mission Trips Aren”t Working

What We Need to Do to Keep Missions Strong Among MillennialsÂ By Haydn ShawÂ Â Baby boomers in the 1970s wore clothing inspired by India and followed rock-and-roll groups from Europe. Their millennial children buy phone cases from online stores in China and play video games with people from all over the world.Â Millennials (those who are 17 to 36 years old) have five times as many passports as previous generations (many of which are needed for short-term mission trips).Â Â Ironically, in many churches today, millennials know more about missions than their parents do. That”s because churches talk less about missions

November 20, 2012

Christian Standard

Book Reviews Reviews

Missionary Books, Missionary Enterprise, and Workings of the Mind

By LeRoy Lawson The Jesus Documents (The Missiology of Alan R. Tippett Series) Alan R. Tippett (Shawn Redford, editor) Pasadena: William Carey Library, 2012 Â River of God: An Introduction to World Mission Doug Priest and Stephen Burris, editors Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2012 Â Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011 (accessed at Audible.com) I remember when Alan R. Tippett came to study at the fledgling Church Growth Institute, which was then meeting on the campus of my alma mater, Northwest Christian College (now University) in Eugene, Oregon. Donald McGavran had only recently

November 29, 2009

Christian Standard

Mission & Evangelism

Fifty Years of Missiology: 1960″“2010

Â by Doug Priest While missions began in biblical times, the academic discipline of missiology goes back only to the early 1800s. The definition of missiology we learned in college in the 1970s was, “the scientific study of missions.” I recall my missionary father cringing upon hearing this definition, fearing that others would assume the spiritual component in mission was being left out.Â In seminary I learned a more technical definition: “The academic discipline or science which researches, records, and applies data relating to the biblical origin, the history, the anthropological principles and techniques and the theological basis of Christian

April 29, 2007

Bill Weber

Mission & Evangelism

To the Ends of the Earth . . . Short Term

International students in a seminary class share candid concerns about short-term mission trips—motivations, cultural understanding, and attitudes of pity—while affirming the need to pursue short-term efforts with better preparation and kingdom impact.