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Yes the Koreans are coming and so are the Chinese, Indians and Brazilians, and Nigerians.

As Philip Jenkins points out “the missionaries won”. They planted the seed of the gospel, it took root and now is growing and multiplying beyond their wildest hopes.

But here’s the scandal: the missionized are becoming missionaries to the West.

I was working [...]

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Only the United States sends out more cross-cultural missionaries than South Korea: 16,616 missionaries to 173 countries. By 2030 the Korean church wants that number to be 100,000.

The largest churches in the world are to found in a country that had hardly any Christians a century ago. The capital Seoul contains eleven of the world’s [...]

I caught up with Martin Robinson for lunch this week in Melbourne. Martin is a prolific author on the church and it mission and heads up Together in Mission. He’s based in Birmingham, England.

He’s in Australia on a national tour, running a series of church planting seminars.

1. Question: What’s new?

Answer: Church planting is back on [...]

As most church planters if there’s an issue that has kept them awake at night, if the answer is yes, chances are it was a conflict.

Unresolved conflict is in my top three reasons what church plants fall over.
Question: When should a church planting team discuss how to resolve conflict?
Answer: Before they need to.In Hemingway’s “The [...]

From GK Chesterton:

Once I remember walking with a prosperous publisher, who made a remark which I had often heard before; it is, indeed, almost a motto of the modern world. Yet I had heard it once too often, and I saw suddenly that there was nothing in it.

The publisher said of somebody, “That man will [...]

Here’s a wonderful piece of writing from tallskinnykiwi on how to recognize where God is at work and get involved:

“What did you go out to see?” Jesus asked the crowds, in reference to a popular desert pilgrimage to John the Baptist. They expected a monarch, but God sent a monk. Outmoded expressions of prophetic ministry, [...]

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As we saw in Aztec collapse, while it took just two years for the Spanish to conquer the mighty Aztec and Inca civilizations, the Apaches successfully held off the Spanish for 200 years.

According to Tom Nevins the difference lay in the way the Apaches were organized as a society. The Apaches withstood the [...]

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Almost five hundred years ago, Hernando Cortez walked into the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, and presented their leader, Montezuma II with an ultimatum. Give me your gold or you’ll die.

Cortex had been amazed by the great highways leading to the city, it’s complex aqueducts, sheer size and beauty of it’s temples and pyramids.

He [...]

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