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Thoughts on StrategyOur world is changing at a breathtaking pace. Technological advancement, urbanization, migration patterns (including relocation of refugees), globalization, and much more make today's mission field dramatically different than yesterday's.

These articles explore effective strategies for making the unchanging news of Jesus' love known in our changing world.

Image courtesy of Gerd Altmann. Used by permission.

Lift Up Your Eyes

By Frank Johnson on April 27, 2020 0

White for harvest

Those Muslims are all terrorists. All they want to do is kill us. I hate them. If there was a Muslim standing right here in front of me, I would show him how we treat terrorists here in America … I don’t understand why we let so many immigrants into our country. All they do is take American jobs. And if they don’t have a job, the government takes care of them. They should go back to where they came from. We don’t want them here.

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You Are Already an Internet Evangelist

By Frank Johnson on October 6, 2019 0

You Are Already an Internet Evangelist

In her excellent article entitled You’re Already Doing Internet Evangelism, so Do It Well, Amber Stamper interviews Tony Whitaker who was the founder of the Web Evangelism Guide and then coordinator of Internet Evangelism Day until his retirement in 2015.

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Jesus Knows Their Names

By Frank Johnson on October 3, 2019 0

Holy Men in Nepal

In a 2010 paper written for the Cape Town 2010 Congress of the Lausanne Movement, S. Kent Parks and John Scott deliver an impassioned plea for the “Forgotten Fourth” — the almost 2 billion people without access to the gospel. These “separate peoples” are mostly Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist, and include significant urban populations.

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Reaching Buddhists

By Frank Johnson on September 30, 2019 0

Buddhist Temple

In an article entitled Proclaiming the Glory of God among Buddhist Peoples, Justin Caudill — a missionary to the Buddhist peoples of Southeast Asia — shares six strategies for reaching Buddhists.

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Muslims and Dreams: Be Discerning, Not Dismissive

By Frank Johnson on September 29, 2019 0

Jesus speaks to Muslims in their dreams

In a May 2018 article at the Gospel Coalition website, entitled When Muslims Dream of Jesus, Darren Carlson cites two studies of Muslim converts to Christianity and notes that many such converts recount dreams they believe came from God that led to their conversions to Christ.

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The Current of God’s Work That’s Flowing in the World

By Frank Johnson on September 24, 2019 0

The Kwasizabantu auditorium in Zululand

Beauty Ndoro and her husband of Zimbabwe were recruited by Servant Partners to serve in Mexico (they have served in both Mexico and Nicaragua). Nairobi Chapel, a non-denominational church in Kenya, has sent church planters to Chicago, London, Sydney, and Christchurch. San Francisco is their next target city.

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Contextualizing the Gospel for Sikhs?

By Frank Johnson on September 24, 2019 0

Satsang

Baptist Press ran an article several years ago entitled Sikhs reached by contextualizing Gospel and described how it was difficult for the Jatt Sikh people of India to convert to Christ because they felt it meant giving up their culture.

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Sharing the Old, Old Story with Old, Lonely People

By Frank Johnson on September 7, 2019 0

Telling the Old, Old Story to Old, Lonely People

What an immense opportunity for the servants of Jesus to build friendships with those in emotional need and ultimately, to share the old, old story of Jesus and his love with old, lonely people — not only in the United Kingdom, but throughout the western world where the elderly are often discarded and ignored.

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Lord Jesus,

This day, we cast our souls upon Your sacrifice as our only hope for purpose, meaning, and fulfillment here on earth and for life in the age to come.

This day, we swear allegiance to You, our King.

This day, we pray that You would set our hearts aflame for Your cause and for the over 3 billion people in this world who have yet to hear Your name.

We long for the day that we will stand before Your throne, surrounded by the most diverse community ever formed — from every tribe, every tongue, every people, and every nation — those whom You have purchased with Your blood — as we cry out together “Worthy is the Lamb!”

Until that day, we commit ourselves to loving our brothers and sisters in Christ — no matter what their people group, no matter what their language, no matter what their race, no matter where they are from — and to living in community with them — that the world may know that the Father loves them and that He sent You to save them.

This day, we devote our lives — our time, our money, our passion, our mind, our strength, our everything — to see Your gospel proclaimed in every corner of this world.

And we thank You for the astounding privilege of playing a small part in carrying Your name to the nations!

Pray for the Tsukuba Express Church Planting Team

Tsukuba Express Line

  1. Please pray for the areas surrounding these twenty rail stations: Akihabara, Shin-Okachimachi, Asakusa, Minami-Senju, Kita-Senju, Aoi, Rokucho, Yashio, Misato-chuo, Minami-Nagareyama, Nagareyama-centralpark, Nagareyama-otakanomori, Kashiwanoha-campus, Kashiwa-Tanaka, Moriya, Miraidaira, Midorino, Bampaku-kinenkoen, Kenkyu-gakuen, and Tsukuba
  2. Pray that God would raise up church planters and send forth laborers into the harvest fields surrounding these stations (Luke 10:2-4).
  3. Pray that God would help these church planters identify persons of peace in the areas surrounding these stations (Luke 10:5-8).
  4. Pray that God would enable these church planters to speak the word of God with boldness in these areas (Luke 10:9b).
  5. Pray that the proclamation of God’s word in the areas surrounding these stations would be accompanied by demonstrations of God’s compassion and power (Luke 10:9a).