INTRO-TO-MISSIONS ARTICLES FROM THE TRAVELING TEAM
The three following segments of study are essentially elements of a whole introduction to missions study. Not as complete as the Perspectives course, but excellent nevertheless.

BECOMING A WORLD CHRISTIAN
Twelve Lessons

BIBLICAL BASIS OF WORLD MISSION
Five Lessons

HISTORICAL BASIS OF WORLD MISSION
MUST READING! The first of this series of articles is titled: Four Thousand Years of Missions History (Also titled: The Kingdom Strikes Back) by Ralph D. Winter. Find out how God has gotten the Good News to more and more people groups… in spite of the frequent failures of His people to understand His unchanging purpose of seeing every people group on earth blessed to be a blessing.


BIBLICAL BASIS OF MISSION

GENESIS TO REVELATION: GOD'S HEART FOR THE WORLD by Paul Borthwick
Many people who think themselves to be "missions minded" still need to look at the whole of Scripture to see God's entire witness. Missions is not a New Testament idea; it permeates Scripture. A careful study of Scripture reveals God's consistent, purposeful, and merciful desire to see all peoples come into fellowship with Him.


MISCELLANEOUS

The following articles don't neatly fit into any of the other Mission Resource Directory categories ... but we wanted you to have access to them.

CHRISTIANITY TODAY’S ARCHIVES OF MISSIONS-RELATED ARTICLES
A mixture of both missions-related and evangelism-related articles. Some very good reading found here.

THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK by Don Richardson
One of the jost amazing stories you will ever read, regarding the Karen, a tribal group in Burma, whose oral tradition contains the basic elements of the beginning of man, the entrance of sin and its consequences, as well as a prophecies of white men bringing a book that would tell them the way back to Y’wa.

DO MISSIONARIES DESTROY CULTURES? by Don Richardson
James Michener’s austere Abner Hale, a missionary in the novel (and movie) Hawaii, has become the archetype of an odious bigot. In the book, Hale shouts hellfire sermons against the “vile abominations” of the pagan Hawaiians. He even forbids Hawaiian midwives to help a missionary mother at the birth of “a Christian baby.” As a result, the mother dies. Hale forbids Hawaiians to help his wife with housework lest his children learn the “heathen Hawaiian language;” his wife works herself into an early grave. And when Buddhist Chinese settle in the islands, Michener has Hale barging into their temples to smash their idols. (Read more)

LOST MISSIONS by Robertson McQuilken
The official representative from Saddleback Church had just finished his powerful presentation of Rick Warren's P.E.A.C.E. plan. Afterwards, I told him that I use The Purpose-Driven Church in a doctoral-level course, and also how much I appreciate Warren's impact on the church. But when I mentioned the critical omission of missions in the book, this rep grinned in agreement. That's why he and I welcomed the P.E.A.C.E. plan (CT, October 2005, p. 32), which outlines a holistic approach to the church's responsibility to the world, conquering the "giants" of poverty, illness, and ignorance. The plan is marketed as a wholly new paradigm for doing missions. (Read more)

PASSION FOR JESUS by Oswald Chambers
“Ye shall be witnesses unto Me.” These words of our Risen Lord (Acts 1:8) were spoken just before His ascension. We have to be careful lest we make the passionate watchwords, “a passion for souls” and “a passion for Christ,” into rival cries. (Read more)

DIVINE LOVE CONQUERED by Rosalind Goforth
The day had been an unusually strenuous one, and I was really very tired. Toward evening, a crowd of women burst open the living-room door and came trooping in before I had time to meet them outside. One woman set herself out to make things unpleasant. She was rough and repulsive and, well, just indescribably filthy. I paid no attention to her except to treat her as courteously as the rest. But when she put both hands to her nose, saying loudly, “Oh, these foreign devils, the smell of their home is unbearable!” my temper rose in a flash and, turning on her with anger, I said, “How dare you speak like that! Leave the room!” The crowd, sensing a “storm,” fled. I heard one say, “That foreign devil woman has a temper just like ours!” (Read more)

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