How Can I Support International Missions?

How Can I Support International Missions?
Author: Mark Collins
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2021-10-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433572346

9 Practical Ways to Support International Missions Many new believers have questions about what it means to live as a Christian in the context of a local church, and pastors are looking for resources to pass along to their congregations to help them think biblically about the Christian life. Church Questions is a series by 9Marks that seeks to provide Christians with sound and accessible biblical teaching by answering common questions about church life. Each booklet offers biblical answers and practical applications with the goal of nurturing healthy church practice and commitment. In this concise booklet, Mark Collins addresses the essential role of the local church in furthering global missions. He shows how Christians can participate in the global cause by sharing the gospel locally with friends and neighbors; studying the work of missionaries throughout the world; investing in the global missions work supported by a local church; praying for missionaries; and more. This helpful resource reminds readers how fundamental they are to the spread of the gospel throughout the world and offers practical ways for them to participate.

Missions

Missions
Author: Andy Johnson
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2017-08-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433555735

Every local church should be engaged with global missions, even if most individuals in the church aren't called to go overseas. But what does this engagement actually look like? How can local churches train, send, and support missionaries well? Unpacking principles from the Bible and applying them in the context of real life in a local church, this new book in the 9Marks: Building Healthy Churches series is filled with practical steps and advice for supporting missionaries, forming international partnerships, sending short-term teams, and engaging with the nations here at home. This book casts a vision for the local church as the engine of world missions—for the joy of all people and the glory of God.

Serving As Senders

Serving As Senders
Author: Neal Pirolo
Publisher: Authentic
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2006-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781850786771

It is plain even from Paul's own writings that other presentations of the Christian message than his own were current during his apostolic career. With some of these other presentations he is quite happy; against others he found it necessary to put his readers on their guard.In these four studies originally presented as the inaugural series of Didsbury Lectures at the British Isles Nazarene College Manchester F.F. Bruce discusses what we know about the history of non-Pauline Christianity in the first century. Judiciously drawing upon material from the whole of the New Testament he relates it to other early Christian literature in order to provide a highly readable outline of an important area.But as he warns this book does not study the literature for its own sake. Instead it focuses on the leaders of early non-Pauline Christianity with their associates from whom the literature provides indispensable evidence.The topics covered are Chapter 1 Peter and the Eleven Chapter 2 Stephen and Other

Miraculous Movements

Miraculous Movements
Author: Jerry Trousdale
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 141854728X

This close look at what the Lord is doing to spread the gospel highlights the key scriptural principles that help Christians reach out in love to share the gospel in their own community.

Evangelism

Evangelism
Author: J. Mack Stiles
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2014-04-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433544687

Christians often struggle to know where to start when it comes to telling others about God, Jesus, sin, and salvation. In this short book, J. Mack Stiles challenges us to view evangelism as something we do together instead of something we do alone, helping churches cultivate a culture of evangelism that goes beyond simply creating new programs or adopting the latest method. The seventh volume in the 9Marks: Building Healthy Churches series, this book will help Christians joyfully embrace evangelism as a way of life as it equips them to share their faith with those who don't yet know Jesus. Part of the 9Marks: Building Healthy Churches series.

Friend Raising

Friend Raising
Author: Betty Barnett
Publisher: YWAM Publishing
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2003
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781576582831

Many, after having responded to God's call to missionary service have struggled unsuccessfully to raise and maintain support. Friend Raising is essential reading for anybody involved in missions!Strong, godly relationships are the pillars of lasting support raising. Discover the friendship principles that are uniting thousands of missionaries and senders in their work for God's kingdom.Bearing one another's burdens Mutual love and sharing Generosity Communication Prayer with promises

Finish the Mission

Finish the Mission
Author: John Piper
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2012-09-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 143353486X

This is no ordinary missions book. The theme isn't new, but the approach is refreshing and compelling, as contributors David Platt, Louie Giglio, Michael Ramsden, Ed Stetzer, Michael Oh, David Mathis, and John Piper take up the mantle of the Great Commission and its Spirit-powered completion. From astronomy to exegesis, from apologetics to the Global South, from being missional at home to employing our resources in the global cause, Finish the Mission aims to breathe fresh missionary fire into a new generation, as together we seek to reach the unreached and engage the unengaged.

Great Commission, Great Compassion

Great Commission, Great Compassion
Author: Paul Borthwick
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2015-11-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830844376

Go and do. Jesus commands it, and the world needs it. Mission mobilizer Paul Borthwick shows how proclamation and demonstration of the gospel go hand in hand, bringing together the Great Commission of Matthew 28 and the Great Compassion of Matthew 25, while offering practical, holistic ways for us to live them out in every sphere of our lives.

Western Christians in Global Mission

Western Christians in Global Mission
Author: Paul Borthwick
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2012-10-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830866051

Missions specialist Paul Borthwick brings an urgent report on how the Western church can best continue in global mission. Providing current analysis of the state of the world and Majority World opinion, Borthwick offers concrete advice for Western churches who want to avoid the pitfalls of colonialism.

Ministry in the Image of God

Ministry in the Image of God
Author: Stephen Seamands
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2009-09-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830876359

Merit winner in the 2006 Christianity Today Book Awards! "As the Father has sent me, so I send you." Those of us called to Christian ministry are commissioned and sent by Jesus, just as he himself was called and sent by the Father. Thus we naturally pattern our ministries after Christ's example. But distinctively Christian service involves the Spirit as well, just as Jesus himself accomplished his ministry in the power of the Spirit. Thus the whole Trinity--Father, Son and Holy Spirit--gives shape to truly authentic Christian ministry. Though as Christians we all affirm the doctrine of the Trinity, many of us might struggle to explain how understanding the Trinity could actually shape our ministry. Stephen Seamands demonstrates how a fully orbed theology of the Trinity transforms our perception and practice of vocational ministry. Theological concepts like relationality and perichoresis have direct relevance to pastoral life and work, especially in unfolding a trinitarian approach to relationships, service and mission. A thoroughly trinitarian outlook provides the fuel for our ministry "of Jesus Christ, to the Father, through the Holy Spirit, on behalf of the church and the world." Essential reading for pastors, parachurch workers, counselors, missionaries, youth ministers and all who are called to any vocation of Christian ministry.