MIN-418 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN MISSIONS

     

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• Changing the Mind of Mission: Where Have We Gone Wrong? (Review by Hesselgrave)
  http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3817/is_200009/ai_n8908356/pg_1 

 

• Famine Again?
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/may/27.42.html

 

• The African Planter
  http://www.christianvisionproject.com/2007/05/the_african_planter.html 

 

• Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones
  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/world/asia/05afghan.html?_r=2&oref=login&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref=slogin 

 

• The Dread Cancer of Stinginess
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/october/17.42.html  

 

• An Upside Down World: Distinguishing Between Home and Mission Field No Longer Makes Sense
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/january/30.42.html

 

• Bowing to Kigali: Importing orthodoxy--and cultural baggage
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/november/18.20.html

 

• The Mission of Business: Companies around the globe are mixing profits with gospel ministry
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/november/24.24.html

 

• Leader's Insight: Christians Without Borders
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/leaders/newsletter/2007/cln71112.html

 

• Africa Unbound: God may be clearing the stage for the next act in his redemptive drama
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/november/38.46.html

 

• Unexpected Global Lessons: How short-term mission is becoming a two-way street
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/december/15.30.html

 

• Suffocationg the Faithful: Will the last Mideast church elader be sure to turn off the lights
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/december/26.58.html  

 

• Pinching Pennies: The dollar's fall has squeezed missionary budgets - with no reprieve in sight
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/january/4.17.html  

 

• India's Burning Issue: Conversions in Orrissa - and violent reaction against them
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/januaryweb-only/102-42.0.html

 

• What's Next: Missions
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/october/22.74.html

 

• TULIP Blooming: Southern Baptist seminaries re-introduce Calvinism to a wary denomination
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/february/8.19.html

 

• Eastern Europe's Evangelical Hub: A scholar discusses the development of evangelicalism in Ukraine
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/januaryweb-only/105-22.0.html

 

• Evangelicals a Liberal Can Love
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• The Health Care Crunch: Let's make sure any reform plan we pursue avoids the single-value syndrome
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/february/19.20.html

 

• An Open Letter and Call from Muslim Religious Leaders (Including links to Responses)
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• Foreign Correspondence: Muslim and Christian leaders seek common ground in conciliatory letters
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/march/2.21.html

 

• Wheaton College Administrators Remove Names from Christian-Muslim Statement
  http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctliveblog/archives/2008/02/wheaton_college.html

  

• Conservative Rabbis to Vote on Resolution Criticizing Pope's Revision of Prayer
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• Poverty is Poison
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• Culture Shock: Americans Teaching Abroad

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• Don't Call Me a PostConservatists: Olson's "Reformed and Always Reforming" reviewed by T. Work
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/february/34.79.html?start=1 

 

• Meaning-full Translations: The World's Most influential Bible Translator, Eugene Nida is weary of 'word worship'

  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/october7/2.46.html

 

• We Really Do Need Another Bible Translation (by Van Leeuwen)
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/october22/5.28.html

 

• Vatican Says Baptisms Must Use Traditional Trinity
  

  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/marchweb-only/110-13.0.html

 

• NYT - Priced Out of the Market - Food vs Alternative Fuels
  

  http://www.nytimes.com:80/2008/03/03/opinion/03mon1.html?th&emc=th

 

• Our Geopolitical Moment
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/march/23.44.html?start=6

 

• Why Culture Wars May Never End
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/march/24.50.html

 

• Spain's Many Muslims Face Dearth of Mosques
  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/world/europe/16spain.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=all 

 

• What Makes a Church Missional
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/march/16.56.html?start=1 
  
• Eight Marks of a Robust Gospel
  http://christianvisionproject.com/2008/03/the_8_marks_of_a_robust_gospel.html 

 

• Indigenous Indignation
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/april/6.17.html

 

• The African Church Planter at Nairobi Chapel
  http://www.christianvisionproject.com/2007/05/the_african_planter.html

 

• Obama's Brother in China - Globalized Families
  http://www.nytimes.com:80/2008/03/17/opinion/29cohen.html?th&emc=th

 

• Bearing the Silence of God
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/march/29.41.html?start=1

 

• Thoroughly Modern Do-Gooders
  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/opinion/21brooks.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

 

• Evangelism as Risky Negotiation: Hiebert's Critical Contextualization
  http://www.cegm.org.au/articles/risky-negotiation.html

 

• Evangelism as Risky Negotiation: Hiebert's Critical Contextualization
  http://www.cegm.org.au/articles/risky-negotiation.html

   

• A Dutch Antagonist of Islam Waits His Premier

  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/world/europe/22wilders.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=all

 

• The Vatican and Globalization: Tinkering with Sin
  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/opinion/07mon4.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

  

• Egypt's Identity Impasse
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/april/23.60.html 

  

• The World Food Crisis
  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/opinion/10thu1.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin  

 

• The Gospel for All People: It's Not Your Father's Mission Movement - Interview with Michael Pocock
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/outreach/articles/gospelforallpeople.html

 

 

• When Language Can Hold the Answer
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MIN-202 PERSONAL EVANGELISM AND DISCIPLESHIP

 

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• Beyond Casual Christianity: Tried and true methods for discipleship have their roots deep in history

 

• Finding Focus through Spiritual Disciplines
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• How I Learned to Love My Gay Neighbor
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• Hour of Decision: "How can I know I'm a Christian if I can't remember when I first responded to the gospel?"
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/december/29.56.html

 

• How Do I Uncover My Spiritual Gifts?
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/biblestudies/areas/biblestudies/articles/071226.html 

 

• Roots Matter: Defending the faith in today's cultural climate means not only knowing our Bible but also knowing our history
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/2007/004/4.42.html

 

• What Evangelism Isn't
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• Take Time to be Holy
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/2007/004/12.96.html

 

• Coming Home: Do you neighbors go to church? If not, do you know why?
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/outreach/articles/cominghome.html

 

• God Came Down: Interview with Rebecca Manley Pippert
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/outreach/articles/godcamedown.html

 

• Gospel Talk: Entire area Young Life staff out after evangelism mandate
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/february/1.13.html

 

• The Developint Ministry of Sharing Christ Online
  
• A Hole in our Holism: Why evangelicals might be shy about sharing their faith
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/january/28.56.html

 

• Reveal Revisited (Links to Willow Creek's [Bill Hybels] Repentance on Failure in Discipleship)
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• Do All Pets Go to Heaven? (New tract useful in evangelism?)
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/tc/2004/005/4.31.html

 

• Hide it in your Heart: Five Ways to Keep the Bible in Mind
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/tc/2000/003/6.63.html 

 

• Slimming Down the Body of Christ for Effective Witness
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/tc/2005/001/1.18.html 

 

• Hot Theology - Hell Preaching and Evangelism
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/2008/001/2.102.html

 

• Lima Bean Gospel: The Good News is so much bigger than we make it out to be
  http://christianvisionproject.com/2008/01/the_lima_bean_gospel.html

 

• The Developing Ministry of Sharing Jesus Online: The Internet Evangelism Coalition
   http://www.webevangelism.com/

 

• Singing in the Chains - To be saved means more than we might think
  http://christianvisionproject.com/2008/02/singing_in_the_chains.html

  

• You Cannot Keep People Out of Hell
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• Making Disciples, Not Just Converts: Evangelism without discipleship dispenses cheap grace
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/biblestudies/areas/biblestudies/articles/080213.html

 

• God Does Not Count Our Converts: He examines our faithfulness and rewards our labors
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/biblestudies/areas/biblestudies/articles/060315.html 

 

• Premature Harvest: Personal evangelism means planting, watching carefully, and waiting
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• Ask Before You Answer: How to talk to skeptics, unbelievers, and mule-headed friends and family about God
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• An Efficient Gospel?
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• Emergent Evangelism - Mclaren and Litfin Square Off
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• Live to Tell - Book Review by Phillip Heinze (p. 62-63)
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• Are You Listening?
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• Larry Norman - Coffee Shop Evangelist and Christian Rock Legend Dead at 60

 

• Larry Norman - Coffee Shop Evangelist
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• Overcoming Obstacles to Evangelism
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• Authentic Fellowship

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• Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind

  http://www.nytimes.com:80/2008/04/02/opinion/02aamodt.html?th&emc=th

 

• Multifaceted Gospel
  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/april/17.66.html

 

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• The Violence of Evangelism
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