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7 Articles to Fuel Your Missions Fire

2/3/2020

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It’s been a while since I’ve put together a post for the 7 Series and so today I want to share seven articles that have been a part of shaping a great commission heart in me and in thousands around the world.  I’d encourage you to take some time in the coming month to read each of these articles and then pray about one or two friends at your church to whom you can send the article with an encouragement for them to read it as well. 

Most of these are the bread and butter articles from the Perspectives course and so while many were written a generation ago, they continue to impact the church in powerful ways. I hope they will challenge and inspire you and remember, pass them on to others.
  1. The Story of His Glory by Steve Hawthorne
  2. The Bible as a Missions Story by The Traveling Team
  3. The Living God is a Missionary God  by John R. W. Stott
  4. The Kingdom Strikes Back: Ten Epochs of Redemptive History by Ralph Winter 
  5. The Harvest is Plentiful but the Laborers are Few by The Traveling Team 
  6. To Be a World Christian by David Bryant 
  7. Reconsecration to a Wartime, Not a Peacetime, Lifestyle by Ralph Winter

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7 Books To Fuel A Movement Paradigm Shift

9/23/2019

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It was early 2008 when I was first introduced to movement thinking at a world wide gathering for the mission agency I was working with at the time.  I was new to the mission field, to church planting and so the week long seminar I attended rocked my world.  There were so many paradigm shifts in what I was hearing, so much that was counter intuitive to what I'd done my entire church life in the U.S.  It was disorientating at first but it struck a chord deep in my soul.  

Church planting movments (CPM), disciple making movements (DMM), the spontaneous expansion of the church - all of it seemed born in the pages of  scripture.    Reading the case studies of movements happening in Asian and Africa looked like the book of Acts far more than my own church experience.  And we we living in a country that was less than 0.01% Christian. 


Doing what we'd always done was just not an option.

Over the next several years, we got some great training, had a great coach and dove into our own personal journey of rewriting the paradigms of church that had been embedded in us by a lifetime of North American church culture.  I also began reading everything I could get my hands on in order to help me  grow in my understanding and practice of all that it would take to see a church planting movement birthed where we were.

The first book that I read over and over again was the book of Acts.  It is where everyone should start.  But after that I began to find other books that helped me learn what God was doing in the book of Acts.

And so here are seven books that I found helpful on that journey.
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Church Planting Movements by David Garrison

This was the first book I ever read that dealt with church planting movements and multiplication. The first half of the book was filled with case studies of movements around the world. The second half taught about the Biblical principles that were found in movements around the world.

You can find out more about the book, including free pdf files of the book in many languages at the CPM website.
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http://www.churchplantingmovements.com/  
T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution by Steve Smith with Ying Kai

T4T follows the story of an unfolding church planting movement that grew up in China.  This book shares that story but then goes into detail unpacking the Biblical principles, strategies and methods that allowed Ying Kai to be used by God to catalyze a movement that saw over 1.7 million baptisms and 150,000 new churches in a ten year period.
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What Jesus Started by Steve Addison

Steve Addison is a long time researcher of and practitioner of movement thinking.  With What Jesus Started, he begins with the character, strategies and methods of Jesus.  He then walk through the apostle's work in the book of Acts, focusing on the Apostle Paul.  Laying a clear Biblical foundation for movment principles and strategies, Addison then moves into case studies from the last 2,000 years where movements happened across the globe.  

Addison's website and podcast are exceptionally helpful as well.


https://www.movements.net/​
There's a Sheep in my Bathtub by Brian Hogan

This book tells the story of a movement that Hogan and others helped catalyze in Mongolia.  It is a riveting story that unpacks movement principles through the on the ground lessons learned in the cauldron of ministry.  
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Giving Up Control by A. J. DeJonge

Giving Up Control follows the journey into multiplication and movement principles by a group of Cru staff working on college campuses in Australia.  As they apply the counter intuitive principles they learn valuable lessons that they share as ten coaching proverbs .  This is a super helpful book and is just $0.99 as an ebook at Amazon.  

Miraculous Movements by Jerry Trousdale

Miraculous Movements tells the powerful stories of movements spreading among highly resistant Muslim tribes in East and North Africa.  These stories are interspersed with chapters teaching movement and multiplication principles.  It is both an inspiring and helpful book.
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Contagious Disciple Making by David Watson and Paul Watson

David Watson was one of the early pioneers of catalyzing movements in the modern missions era.  The lessons he learned in northern India have been invaluable in helping others apply Biblical principles to gospel work around the world.  In this book he unpacks those principles in applicable lessons.  

These seven books will do much to help anyone interested in multiplication and movement.  The paradigm shifts needed to begin to apply the Biblical principles of multiplication are enormous.  These books will help you make those shifts.

A few other helpful books:
  • The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church by Rolland  Allen
  • Spent Matches by Roy Moran
  • From Megachurch to Multiplication by Chris Galanos
  • Stubborn Perseverance by James Nyman
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7 Books for Cross Cultural Ministry

3/25/2019

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Jesus instructed his followers - which includes us - to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to observe all that He had commanded.

It was the last instruction that he gave to his first disciples and as they obeyed, the gospel quickly spread out from Judea and into all of the surrounding regions and it kept going.  

In the process of moving out, the disciples who carried the gospel, quickly began to cross linguistic and cultural barriers and they began to wrestle with how to communicate the gospel well.  This has been an ongoing challenge for every generation of disciples as they strive to obey Jesus.


​It is a challenge for our generation as well.  


Doug Birdsall says that, "The Great Commission is for every church in every culture in every generation. There are no exclusions. But . . . every church in every culture in every generation must determine the way in which they respond to this responsibility -- in a way that is appropriate to time and context."

Here are seven books that I think you will find helpful for learning how you should respond as you have opportunities to cross cultural barriers with the gospel.


Getting Started
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Culture Smart Series.  The Culture Smart guidebook series are a instructional guide books for particular cultures.  They unpack cultural norms, customs, etiquette and more. Getting the Culture Smart guidebook for the country you’ll be heading to or of the country your new friends have come from will do much to help you begin to understand a bit more about how to interact.  Culture Smart Turkey was an invaluable resource as we went to Turkey.
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​Foreign to Familiar by Sarah Lanier. This short book is one of the most helpful introductions to understanding cultures and the worldviews that drive them that I’ve read.  Sprinkled with stories to highlight the different topics she touches on this is the first book I’d encourage anyone to read as they begin to interact cross culturally.  It is a great starting place too because it packs a lot into a small book at just 128 pages.

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The 3D Gospel by Jayson Georges.  This book too is packed with incredible insight to help you understand the underlying worldviews that permeate different cultures of our world.  Next to Foreign to Familiar, this would be one of the first books I’d recommend to anyone beginning to build relationships and minister to non-Western people. It is also an short book at 82 pages but it is important.

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Digging Deeper
Global Humility by Andy McCullough.  This book is powerful, insightful and a must read for anyone interested in cross-cultural ministry.  Broken into six different sections, Andy explores all facets of cross cultural work through the lens of what he believes is the most important aspect of this work: humility.  Filled with first hand experience, personal stories, Biblical insight and sharp observation, Global Humility is a must read for anyone interested in learning from the global church and in moving cross-culturally as an ambassador of Christ.

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A Geography of Time by Robert Levine.  The tagline of this book - the temporal misadventures of a social psychologist - sums up the theme of this book.  Levine is not writing from a Christian perspective but his observations, experiments and research are incredibly helpful if you’ve ever run into the reality that folks from other cultures have some different thoughts about time and how it should be handled.  This is one of the most entertaining and engaging books that I have read and it’s also incredibly helpful.

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Issues in Contextualization by Charles H. Kraft.  I first read Kraft’s tome Appropriate Christianity ten years ago and so was excited to see a somewhat trimmed down and more accessible volume.  The focus of the book is the idea of contextualization, a topic that anyone who crosses into another culture with the hope of sharing the good news of Jesus needs to become familiar with.  This should be a helpful book though is perhaps the most academic of the books on this list.

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South Asian Bible Commentary.  A few years ago I began to wonder how it might be helpful to read Bible commentaries written by theological leaders who grew up in non-western contexts.  I now will often check in with this commentary when wrestling with certain passages of scripture to see how South Asian Bible scholars deal with the texts.  It’s been helpful. There are many such commentaries which could be helpful: Native American, African American, African.  Here is a whole list of non-Western Bible commentaries.

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7 MISSIONARY BIOGRAPHIES TO FUEL THE MISSIONS FIRE

2/5/2019

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What is it that has shaped the way you think about the world around you? 

What is shaping your worldview right now?


I often say that we are all, always being discipled by something.   We don't have a choice.  The things we listen to, watch and read are shaping us. They are shaping how we think, forming our character and driving our interests. 

It is a reality.

If we go to church for an hour and a half each week and then spend two hours every day watching Oprah or listening to Rush Limbaugh, guess what?  Our thinking, character and interests will look a lot like Oprah or Rush.  We don't have a choice.  That's just what happens.

The choice we do have is in the content of what we listen to, watch or read.  We are in control of those choices.

Our Multiply team was reflecting today on the desires of our heart.  It was during this time that I began to think back over my life and the things that shaped some of my strongest desires.  One book in particular came to the forefront of my mind.  I read it first in college and it began to shape my thinking in powerful ways.  It was the missionary biography Through Gates of Splendor by Elizabeth Elliot.

There are others as well and with today's post I want to share with you 7 missionary biographies that I think will fuel your missions fire.  They certainly have for me!

You'll probably be able to find most of these in a church library near you, but if not, you can purchase them from Amazon at the links given.

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​Through Gates of Splendor by Elizabeth Elliot is the story of five missionaries determined to share the gospel with a remote tribe in Ecuador with a history of violence.  This story has inspired generations of missionaries from across the world and was one of the most formative books in my young life.

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Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret by Dr. and Mrs. Howard Taylor follows the life of Hudson Taylor, known as one of the founders of modern missions and the leader of the move to share the gospel with the people of China.  The book tells the story of his life but also the spiritual truths that Taylor discovered along the way.

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​Chasing the Dragon
by Jackie Pullinger tells the story of Pullinger's work in Hong Kong's walled city.  I have not read this book but watched a documentary about her life and work and was challenged by her faith and how much her life reminded me of the life of Jesus.  I look forward to reading this book soon.

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​Jungle Pilot
by Russell Hitt is the biography of Nate Saint, the Mission Aviation Fellowship pilot who, along with Jim Elliot and three others, gave his life as a martyr on a jungle river beach in Ecuador.  His life of commitment and service and faithfulness is inspiring and challenging.  

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Bruchko is the biography of Bruce Olson, who as a young man traveled alone into the jungles of South America to carry the gospel to tribes who had never heard the name of Jesus.  His suffering is intense: shot through the leg with an arrow, capture, disease, loneliness, torture and loss.  Despite overwhelming hardships, he is used by God to bring the love of Christ to those who did not know.

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Peace Child is the story of Don Richardson's engagement with a stone age child who upon hearing the gospel story for the first time, began cheering for Judas as he betrayed Jesus.  How do you share the good news of Jesus with a tribe who revere deception?  Through the story that God wove into their culture centuries earlier.  This is a fascinating story of discovering the fingerprints of God in the stories of a primitive tribe.

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A Chance to Die by Elizabeth Elliot is the intensely personal biography of Amy Carmichael.  This Irish missionary spent fifty three years in the south of India and never once came home.   There she founded a refuge for underprivileged children and gave her life to the service of her Lord.

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I in no means intend to say that these are the seven best missionary biographies that are out there, but they are seven that get me excited and they are stories that will both inspire you and help to shape your heart for the nations.  I hope you will find time to read them all in the next year!

Perhaps you have a favorite missionary biography - if so, please share it in the comments below.
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7 Smart Phone Apps for Reaching the Nations Among Us

10/4/2018

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As we head out into diverse neighborhoods in our city, we often run into new Americans, people who've just recently come to North America and who have yet to master the English language.  Like first generation immigrants from years past, they'll probably never master English, working rather to earn a living and give their children a chance at a better life than they had.  

As someone interested in sharing the good news of Jesus with these new neighbors, this poses an interesting challenge. 
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  • How do we communicate? 
  • How do we build relationship? 
  • How do we tell the story of Jesus?

Technology offers a way around this challenge.  There are some amazing apps that you can use to help  share the good news of Jesus with the nations among us.  These can be found by searching for the apps below on either your iPhone or Android phone.  

Here are seven smart phone apps for reaching the nations among us that we have found helpful.  As always, if you know of others, please share them in the comments below.

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Google Translate

Google translate is getting crazy good at translating. It's not perfect and it is capable of making interesting and at times embarassing mistakes, but it is very helpful for communicating with those whose languages we haven't mastered yet.  

The "conversation" function allows you to simply set your phone in between you and your new friend and talk.  It picks up your English and quickly translates it audibly to most target languags.  Your friend responds and it translates to English.  No typing. No pushing buttons.  

Google translate is not perfect but it can be a useful tool to begin a conversation.  You can use it online here:  https://translate.google.com/
Bible.is

There are a lot of Bible apps out there and others are probably better than Bible.is for functionality and reading plans and other bells and whistles.  Bible.is has more languages available than any other app though and so it is a must have for anyone interested in diaspora ministry.  With over 1,400 languages available, the Bible.is app is helpful when beginning to build relationships with new friends whose native language is something other than English. 
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Bible.is has a number of features that are helpful.  If there is an audio version of the particular language, you can use it to listen to the language.  I know a friend who was doing a creation to Christ Bible study with a Somali family and he'd simply place his phone in a bowl on the table (for amplification) and play the chapter of the Bible they were exploring that week.  The family would listen in Somali and then they'd discuss the passage. 

Learn more here:  
http://www.bible.is/
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 Jesus Film Media

The Jesus Film has been used by the Lord for nearly 40 years and through it, millions of people all across the globe have come to faith in Christ.  Now the Jesus Film has found it's way onto your smart phones and the app is really pretty amazing.  

The Jesus Film has been translated into oveer 1,600 languages and by using the app's "Map" function, you can simply find the country your friend is from on the map of the world, click on the country pin and find the Jesus film in their language.  Push play and within seconds, they will hear their language being spoken as the Jesus film begins.  

Learn more here:  https://www.jesusfilm.org/
5 Fish

5 Fish is an app that has consolodated all the available audio and video gospel resources available for each language.  You can search by country name or language name.  When you find the language of your new friend, it will give you access to whatever resources are availble in that language.  

​A good way to explore the resources is to search for the resources in English.  This will allow you to listen in English first so you know what they are listening to.   5 Fish brings a lot of great resources (including the Jesus Film) into one place.

Learn more here:  ​https://5fish.mobi/
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God Tools

Devleloped by Cru, the God Tools app has six great "tools" for sharing the gospel.  The app allows you to search through the list of tools and select the ones you want to use.  You can find apps in parallel languages that allow you to see each page of the particular study in English and in the other language with the click of a button.  

One tool that will be helpful is called Honor Restored and it shares the gospel through the lens of honor and shame.  This app is simple to use and there are tools available in over 70 languages.

Learn more here:  ​https://godtoolsapp.com
M28 Global Discipleship

When beginning to engage new friends with the word of God when you don't know their language,  discovery Bible study (DBS) is a helpful way to go.  With DBS, you don't need to rely on your ability to explain concepts but rather focus on allowing the Word of God and the Holy Spirit to be the teacher.  

The M28 Global Discipleship app will help you facilitate a DBS with your new friends.  It will equip you to lead a DBS and walk you through the process.  Coupled with the Bible.is app and Google translate, anyone can lead a creation to Christ DBS even if you don't know how to say anything more than hello in your new friends language.

Learn more here:  http://www.m28global.org/
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Google Earth

​This may seem like a strange app to finish out our list with, but there is something special that happens when you open up Google Earth and find your friends home village on the map.  When you zoom into their neighborhood and perhaps even to their house -- well it's pretty special and a lot of fun.  

It also expresses a level of concern and shows that you want to really know about them and their story.  It allows you to enter into their story, to walk the streets of their home town, a place that they've left, probably for good.   And then it's interesting to show them the street that you grew up on.  

Learn more here:  https://www.google.com/earth/

We hope that these smart phone apps will help you out in the harvest among the nations.  If you know of other helpful apps, be sure and share them in the comments below.

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7 Resources To Fuel Your Missions "Prayer" Fire

9/26/2018

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We pray because our vision exceeds our ability. Prayer is the soul's deepest cry of rebellion against the way things are, seeing the lost of this world and crying out, "This does not glorify God, and so, by God's grace, it must change!" Prayer comes from God and ascends back to God on behalf of those who do not know God. Extraordinary prayer lays a firm foundation for a movement of God."
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I was reading in Luke 11 today, through the passage where Jesus teaches us His prayer and then goes on to tell us to, "ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks, recieves, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened."

It reminded me of the Garrison quote above and of the many resources available to help the body of Christ focus "extraordinary prayer" on the nations.  And so today I want to share Seven Prayer Resources To Fuel Your Missions "Prayer" Fire.

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Hindu World Prayer Guide
The Hindu World Prayer Guide will take you on a journey of learning about and praying for the world's 1 billion Hindus.  This fifteen day prayer journey is scheduled for October 28th - November 11th but you can use the guide to pray at anytime during the year.  Guides can be ordered from World Christian for $3.00 but there are substancial discounts if you order in bulk.  We'd like to encourage you to consider ordering 10 today and mobilizing nine others to join you in praying for Hindus to come to faith in Christ this fall.
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Muslim World Prayer Guide

Every year during Ramadan, thousands of Christains around the world use the 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World to interceed for those following the religion of Islam.  This year Ramadan is from May 5 through June 4.  Take  a moment to set a reminder on your calendar for April 1st to order your prayer guides.  Talk to your pastor about ordering a box for your church.  Order ten yourself and mobilze nine others to join you in praying.  This guide will do much to help you learn about Islam while you pray for Muslims to come to faith in Christ.
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Buddhist World Prayer Guide

This will mark the fist year of the Buddhist World Prayer Guide.  Much like the Hindu and Muslim World prayer guides, it is sure to be both a great resource for learning about and praying for the Buddhist world this coming year.  It will be availble starting in January, so like the Muslim world guide, set a reminder on your calendar to order yours then.  
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Prayercast

Prayercast is a unique prayer resource that is helpful for group prayer events.  Prayercast produces short videos for each nation on earth.  Each video features a montage of images and video from the country while a national believer prays for their nation.  The videos end with a few prayer points for the nation.  We use these videos to pray for the nations throughout each E2E training event we host.  They also have a number of theme based videos for different religions.  We try and post at least one Prayercast vidoe each week at the E2E Facebook page.  Check out the Prayercast for North Korea at the bottom of this article.  Each video is 3-4 minutes in length.
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 Operation World

Operation World is a great resource that every family should have on their coffee table.  Originally a resource guide that had information, maps and prayer topics for every nation on earth, Operation World, while still publishing a book, has expanded to offer a variety of online prayer resources as well.  Be sure and order the latest prayer guide for your home and encourage your praying friends to do the same.  
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Mission Organizations

Many mission agencies and organizations have great resources to help you pray for the nations.  If you support a missionary through a particular agency, be sure and check out their website for prayer resources.  Here are a few organizational prayer resources that we're excited about.
  • MB Mission
  • Crescent Project
  • Frontiers
  • OMF​
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​Prayer for SF Muslims

This email prayer guide will lead you through 30 days of praying specifically for God to bless and reveal himself to the Muslim community of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  You'll get one email each day for 30 days.

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We hope that these prayer resources will help you do your part in fostering extraordinary prayer for the nations.  If you know of a helpful prayer resource, be sure and share it in the comments below.

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Prayercast Video for North Korea
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7 Books to Fuel the Missions Fire

9/2/2018

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One of the biggest influences on my heart for the nations and the fulfillment of the great commission has been books.  As I first read biographies of missionaries and now more and more often, educational and inspirational non-fiction about missions, books have shaped the way I think about the world, my values, and the place in my heart that missions holds.

And so I'd love to encourage you to consider reading these books to fuel your missions fire.  They are not necessarily in any order and aren't in any way thought to be the best seven books - it certainly isn't an exhaustive list. 

As always, if you have a book that has been instrumental in growing your heart for the nations and the completion of the great commission, mention it in the comments.


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Jungle Pilot
Author: Russell T. Hitt
Nate Saint was one of the  five missionaries killed in Ecuador by the Waodani Indians in 1956.  Their story caught the attention of the church and God used their martyrdom to ignite a new passion for frontier missions - it certainly did for me.  While Through Gates of Splendor  is the most famous of the books on this incident, Jungle Pilot is an inspiring look into the life of Nate Saint and the motivations and love that drove him. 


Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret
Author: Dr. Howard Taylor
A missionary biography classic, this book about Hudson Taylor's life looks into a time when missionaries were first pressing into the inlands of places like China, Africa and India.  Filled with stories of risk taking obedience to Jesus and great faith, this missionary biography is one everyone should read.


Eternity in Their Hearts
Author: Don Richardson
Don Richardson was a missionary in Indonesia in the 1960s and while there, discovered a principle: God has been preparing the peoples of the world to know him.  Through the lens of twenty five uniques stories from all across the globe, Eternity in Their Hearts proves the truth in the words of Ecclesiastes:  He has made everything beautiful in its time.  He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end (Ecclesiastes 3:11).

Let the Nations Be Glad
Author:  John Piper
With deep Biblical insight and reflection, Piper forcefully makes the case that, "Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is.  Missions exists because worship doesn't.  Worship is ultimate."  This is a great resource for everyone interested in learning more about why we do missions and why it should be in the mind of every follower of Jesus.  


In the Gap
Author: David Bryant
In the Gap lays a foundation of understanding for what it means to be a world christian, those who are (in Corrie Ten Boom's phrase) tramps for the Lord who have left their hiding places to roam the Gap with the Savior.  They are heaven's expatriates, camping where the Kingdom is best served.  


Out of the Comfort Zone
Author: George Verwer
George Verwer is the founder of Operation Mobilization where he now serves as the "Special Projects Dude".  This small book has been used to mobilize many to the mission fields of the world.  You can even get this book and others free when you email  George.


Western Christians in Global Mission
Author: Paul Borthwick
As the state of Christianity increasingly shifts to the global south, our missionary strategies and thinking will need to adapt to new realities.  Borthwick presents a thoughtful book to help the church navigate these new realities with honest self reflection and missional determination.

This list of seven books is in no way exhaustive and so I want to encourage you to share the book that has helped you catch the missions vision in the comments below.


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7 Video Channels to Fuel the Missions Fire

8/28/2018

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​Last week we shared seven podcasts that we have found helpful to fuel the missions fire.  Today we’d like to add to that list of resources and share with you seven video channels that will help you train unto the harvest and cast vision for the great commission.   Some are focused purely on training and equipping the local church.  Others are focused on helping the local church catch God’s vision for the nations.  All have been inspiring and helpful and we hope they will do the same for you.

Everywhere to Everywhere (E2E) works to multiply healthy disciples and raise up missional leaders.  We are challenged to inspire believers to cultivate a heart for the least reached locally, nationally and globally and to provide tools that will help them make a difference.

We hope that these seven video channels will support that effort.


At the bottom of the post, we’ve shared one video from each of these sites to give you a bit of the flavor of their content and we hope you will explore more.

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MB Mission
https://vimeo.com/mbmission

MB Mission believes in the power of story.  Their videos will take you into the heart of mission all across the world, telling the stories of God’s engagement with and through his people.  Powerful testimonies will encourage and inspire you.

Global Frontier Missions
https://www.youtube.com/user/gfmvideos​
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Their GFM 101 series of videos have been especially helpful for casting vision with local churches and individuals.  These short videos do a great job of unpacking the great commission and some key concepts that missionaries are wrestling with today.

Frontiers USA
https://vimeo.com/frontiersusa
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Frontiers is one of the largest mission agencies focusing specifically on the Muslim world.  These inspiring videos tell the story of God's working through his people across the Muslim world.

No Place Left Training
https://www.youtube.com/npltraining
The No Place Left Network are a group of like minded individuals and churches who are working to see movements of disciples making disciples spread across the globe until there is no place left (Romans 15:23).  In order to work toward that goal, they have been developing simple and accessible training tools.  These they freely give to anyone who is interested in being a disciple who makes disciples and we have incorporated these tools into our Everywhere to Everywhere training events.  The 411 Training module is a key component of E2E. 

Curtis Sergeant Training for Multiplication
https://www.youtube.com/curtissergeant
Curtis is one of the foremost trainers in movement methodology and has been a catalytic part of movements across the globe.  His 28 multiplication concepts videos are a great first step into thinking about multiplication.  They are accessible and easily understandable and at less than 10 minutes, each can be watched over a lunch break or after work. 


Engage Africa
https://www.youtube.com/engageafrica
Engage Africa has put together a series of five videos unpacking their work to see multiplying movements happen across Africa.  Hosted by African pastors and practitioners, these videos allow us to learn from local leaders on the ground in Africa.  Filled with powerful teaching and amazing testimony, these videos are a great tool for learning about missions and movement.

Pioneers USA

https://vimeo.com/pioneersusa
Pioneers is another large mission agency whose focus is on unreached people groups across the globe.  Their videos do a good job of telling the story of what God is doing among the nations. They also have a series of videos to help train and equip sending churches - great for pastors and mission committees.
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7 Podcasts to Fuel the Missions Fire

8/27/2018

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The path of the missional heart is often a difficult one.  The distractions that life will throw at you are many and varied.  The number of fellow sojourners with whom you'll be able to run daily are often few.  There is little in the culture and sometimes even in the church that will encourage your heart for missions and the completion of the great commission.  

Because the challenge is real and because I need all the encouragement I can get to help me stay the course, I want to take the next few blog posts to share with you resources that will help to continuously fuel your missions fire.  Today we will start with seven podcasts that I listen to on a regular basis to stay encouraged, to be inspired and to continue to learn.  

If you have a favorite missions podcast that helps you run the race well, please leave a comment and share it with the rest of us.


With all of these podcasts, if you search in itunes or your favorite podcast service, you'll be able to find them.

Global Missions Podcast
http://globalmissionspodcast.com/

The Global Missions Podcast is hosted by Rob Magwood and in general, each episode is an interview with a missionary or missiologist or author about missions.  The purpose of the Global Missions Podcast is to provide helpful resources and practical information to churches and individuals to help them effectively support and engage in global missions.

My favorites:   What's the role of the North American church in global missions?;
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Ministering to those from honor/shame cultures.


Movements
https://www.movements.net/

Author and mission leader Steve Addison hosts this great podcast which focuses on disciple making movements.  Most episodes are interviews with movement leaders who are making disciples who make disciples.  If you need help believeing that the harvest is plentiful, if you need encouragment to share your faith boldly, this podcast will inspire you.

My favorites:  Ron Surgeon Interview;   God, give us Austin or we die!;   Reaching the world in your backyard;   NoPlaceLeft Manchester


Engaging Missions
https://engagingmissions.com/

Host Bryan Entzminger does a great job of interviewing a wide range of missional people.  Some are experienced veterans and recognized experts while others are young missionary candidates just preparing to move into ministry for the first time.  It creates a great resource for anyone interested in missions.

My favorites:  Brett Butler;   Curtis Sergeant;   C. Anderson

Strike the Match
http://www.jdpayne.org/tag/strike-the-match/
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J.D. Payne is an author of over ten books on missions and his experience and insight make this podcast a great resource to continue learning.  Many of his podcasts are just him sharing his insights and wisdom on missions but he also has great interviews with missiologist and missionaries.

My favorites:   Nathan Shenk on Church Multiplication and Health; John Klassen on Engaging with Muslims


Storyline Podcast
https://www.storylinemissions.org/storylinepodcast/

The Storyline Podcast is part of  Storyline Missions, an effort to equip local churches with great commission vision.  The foundation of this is the Storyline Workbook, an 8 lesson curriculum which is great for Sunday school classes and small groups.  The first 8 episodes follow and supplement the lessons in the workbook. The rest are interviews with global leaders about accelerating the emerging mission force in the world.

My favorites:  Living the Wartime Lifestyle;     Mobilizing the Russian Church for Missions

Crescent Project Radio
https://www.crescentproject.org/podcast

Crescent Project Radio is hosted by Matt Bonner and each episode is an interview with someone involved with ministry to Muslims or with former Muslims who have left Islam to follow Jesus.  This is a great podcast to share with your friends who are struggling to understand how we as Christians are supposed to engage with the Muslim world.

My favorites:  Nasser's Story (part 2); Standing in the Fire with Tom Doyle -Part 1 ;  Tom Doyle: Standing in the Fire (Part 2);  Ajla's Journey to Faith

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The Sent Life
http://sentlives.com/

The host of The Sent Life is J.R. Ammon and he has spent the last several years reaching Muslims in a North American city.  He builds each podcast episode around three rounds through which he unpacks missional principles and ideas.

My favorites:  Status Seeking;    Love for Timothys

I hope that these podcasts will do much to encourage you in your pursuit of the Kingdom.  Listen to them on a run or on your commute and again, if you have one or two favorite podcasts that are about missions and completing the great commission, share them in the comments below.
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