When I reach for my Bible, I ask myself which one. I have several Bibles, in several versions, basic texts and study...
Missiology Articles
On Minneapolis Allowing The Islamic Call To Prayer
Recently, Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota, allowed the Mosques in the city to broadcast the adhan...
False Teachers Among Us: Why Your Behavior Matters
The Lord Jesus warns against false teachers, and explains how they can be identified. As recorded in Matthew...
Tyndale’s Unfinished Revolution
William Tyndale had a profound impact on English Bible translation. His translation of the New Testament—the first...
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A Bibliography for the Proclamational Approach to Church Planting Overseas (and Critique of Movement Methods)
Introduction We wanted one document listing key resources for proclamational missionaries needing to find tools on planting healthy churches in a missionary context. This bibliography is only a primer, and so it is limited to a few pages worth. It contains...
“Son of God” Unresolved: Ten Years After a Landmark Petition, Translators Continue to Remove “Son of God” and Insert Islamic Teaching into New Translations
Ten years ago, Biblical Missiology led a petition asking Wycliffe Bible Translators, SIL International, and Frontiers to stop replacing or removing the terms “Father” and “Son of God” from Bible translations. The petition came only after years of efforts to address...
The Missionary Review of the World: A Journal Worth Rereading
I am thrilled to call your attention to an invaluable resource for all Christians who care about the Great Commission (Matt 28:18-20) – open access to digitized copies of every issue of The Missionary Review of the World (a.k.a. The Review) available at...
What Is Islam’s Relationship to Christianity? The Theological Analysis of the Bible and the Quran
The Quran is a book of the utmost importance and influence in the world today. It is the foundational text of Islam, and through the Islamic sharia it shapes legal systems, politics, ethics, cultures, and worship for a quarter of the world’s population. The intriguing...
Worlds Apart: Biblical Perspectives on “Muslims” and “Islam”
Introduction Christians have interacted both with Muslim persons and the religion of Islam for fourteen centuries. Yet, those interactions have largely increased in the past half century. If the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran did not bring the religion of Islam to...
Sex Trafficking and Slavery in Southeast Asia: To Free Captives
This article originally appeared in the Liberty University Journal of Statesmanship and Public Policy, and has been reprinted here with permission. Abstract Millions of people derive income from the sex industry in Thailand. Some claims estimate that the sex industry...
Should Christians Use the Quranic Name of Jesus in Arabic Bible Translations?
This response article originally appeared on the website of the Jenkins Center for the Christian Understanding of Islam, and has been reprinted here with the author's permission. Click here to download this article in PDF format. The Quran refers to...
The Mission of the Church
This essay originally appeared on The Gospel Coalition. It is reposted here with permission from the author. DEFINITION The mission of the church is the task given by God for the people of God to accomplish in the world. SUMMARY After defining the terminology this...
The Culture of Missions: Choosing to Be Mistreated
Reprinted by permission of the Asia Mission Association. Originally published April 2020 in the journal, Asian Mission Advance. INTRODUCTION If one were to scan the globe in order to evaluate the health of world missions, there would no doubt be many good...
Yesu or Issa? (Part 1 of 4)
By Ian Westmark Several compelling reasons for transliterating the name Jesus in all Bible translations, even in languages deeply impacted by Islam For many, the advantages of employing the name Issa in Islamic contexts are rather obvious. Why employ Yesu,...
Bridging the Gap for Muslims
Bridging Concept A bridge is a link that connects two opposite sides of a gap. The purpose of a bridge is to transport people or vehicles from one side to the other. "Building bridges" has been used extensively as a missionary strategy aimed at reducing the resistance...
Arabic-speaking Christians Condemn Muslim Idiom Translations & Liberal Commentaries Produced By Western Missions Agencies
A number of Coptic and Evangelical churches and organizations in Egypt recently released public statements condemning The True Meaning of the Gospel of Christ, a “Muslim Idiom Translation” (MIT) of the Gospels and Acts, its companion volume, The Bold Proclamation of...
When Your Church’s Missions Heartbeat has Flattened
All church leaders feel the tension. No matter how passionately we plea for our church members to be committed to the Great Commission, it seems to fall flat. The greatness of the Great Commission seems to be lost in the sea of a...
Show Me Thy Glory
Amy Carmichael (1867-1951) served for 55 years in India without furlough, becoming one of the pioneers of the modern missions movement. In this excerpt from her book, Things As They Are, Carmichael describes the biblical motivation behind missions. What is God's...
Diversity, Monoliths and Essentialism
Preparing servants of Christ to participate in the Great Commission is an important task which requires continual evaluation and honing. We live in an exciting time in history in which Muslims in various contexts have opened their hearts to the gospel. Coming from a...
Redeeming Missiology
What is Missiology? Missions is the central theme of the Bible. From Genesis to Revelation, God reveals his love for his creation and calls his people to be a light and a blessing to all nations. (Genesis 12:1–3; Isaiah 49:6) Missiology was driven by the need of...
The Unoccupied Mission Fields
By Samuel Zwemer. Zwemer, known as the "Apostle to Islam," served as a pioneer missionary to Arab nations at the turn of the 20th century. Below is an excerpt from his book The Unoccupied Mission Fields of Africa and Asia. The challenge of the unoccupied fields of the...
“Adam the Son of God”: Why Literal Meaning is Essential
Some of the greatest gems of truth lie in the Bible’s genealogies. The end of Luke 3:38 contains one such treasure, equally exquisite for both its richness and rarity: “Adam, the son of God.” Inherent within this description of our very first forefather is a witness...
Did the Apostles Proclaim an Honor Shame Gospel Part 2
Read Part 1 here. Having (1) looked at the honor-shame movement’s understanding of the gospel as a message that changes based on the target audience’s predominant cultural outlook and also (2) gained a better, if not brief, understanding of how the movement views...
Did the Apostles Proclaim an Honor Shame Gospel? Part 1
As I was writing this article my wife and I were reading The Soul of Shame. I say “reading” but we were doing more than reading. We also shed tears and talked at length about how we had both listened to and transmitted shame to others, not the least of which were our...