Here's what you'll find in Evangelical Missions Quarterly
EMQ explores key topics in world missions today. Our writers are veteran missionaries and mission leaders who bring years of experience to the table as they research, reflect and write on select issues.
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Latest Issue: Jan 2012
Articles
Point/Counterpoint
Jonathan McNeil and Kevin Higgins
Point: A Muslim-born Pastor’s Response to a 2009 Insider's Conference by Jonathan McNeil. Counterpoint: Asking Questions: A Response to Jonathan McNeil by Kevin Higgins
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Contextualization of Essential Christianity: Three Points
Charles H. Kraft
The essence of Christianity does not lie in the religious structures that are so obvious, but in something deeper, which Kraft shares using three key characteristics.
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MK Education Consultants: Keeping Families on the Field
Melissa Shipman
Shipman gives an overview of why education consultants are vital to missionary families around the world. She includes key characteristics consultants must display.
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Cultural Anthropology to Modern Missions
Anne Blythe
Cultural anthropology can and should be harnessed as a necessary and practical aid for the task of knowing the soils of individual people within cultures and sub-cultures.
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Teaching outside the Classroom: The Power of Relationship
Mike Nichols
After describing his own experience in teaching and mentoring in different contexts, Nichols shares ideas for developing the student-teacher relationship outside of the classroom.
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Asking Tough Questions: What Really Happens When We Train Leaders
Craig Parro
Difficult, thoughtful questions can become tools to help us observe “the evidences of the grace of God.”
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The Missionary as Cultural Pilgrim
Marcus Dean
Being a cultural pilgrim may be the best way to live on this earth, since it reminds us that we belong to God, not to a particular culture.
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Transforming Worldview through Song
Wendy Atkins
Atkins shares how music can be used to confront issues within a believer’s worldview.
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Lean on Me (Part 1): The Problem of Dependency
Daniel Rickett
As the first of two articles on the dependency/ interdependency debate, Rickett presents the main views of Glenn Schwartz and John Rowell.
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Holistic Discipleship: Integrating Community Development in the Disipleship Process
Jay Moon
In holistic discipleship, the ultimate God addresses intimate needs in ordinary areas of life; areas of “non-poor” poverty are exposed; and disciple-makers consider the community growth process from relief to sustainability.
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A Second Look: Editorial by EMQ Editor Gary Corwin
John Stott Finishes His Race
Gary Corwin
Corwin focuses on three things that impress him most about Stott’s engagement with mission issues.
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Perspectives: EMQ Guest Editorial
“Messing Up” Missionary Endeavors: Celebrating Roland Allen's Missionary Methods
J. D. Payne
Payne encourages everyone involved in missions to set a goal in 2012 to read Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours?
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Excellence in Missions: Best Practices from CrossGlobal Link
Going Forward Together: Merging the Leading North American Mission Associations
Marvin J. Newell and Steve Moore
Editor's note: With the merger of CrossGlobal Link and The Mission Exchange, beginning with the April 2012 issue, we will be running an ongoing column from the new mission entity.
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The Tension between Reaching and Teaching
Darren Carlson
We cannot pit church planters against theological educators.
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The Leading Edge: Personal and Organizational Growth from The Mission Exchange
Helping Women Thrive: A Key Component of a Healthy Team Approach
Lorrie Lindgren
The author shares some common concerns among missionary women.
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Book Reviews
The Beauty of Partnership Study Guide (Standard Edition)
Werner Mischke, designer/editor
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Christianity and Chinese Culture
Miikka Ruokanen and Paulos Huang, eds.
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English Language Teaching in Theological Contexts
Kitty Barnhouse Purgason, ed.
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Global Church Planting: Biblical Principles and Best Practices for Multiplication
Craig Ott and Gene Wilson
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Muhammad and the People of the Book
Sahaja Carimokam
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Understanding World Religions: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Irving Hexham
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Other Books Received
Irving Hexham
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