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October 2020

October 19, 2020

A Plea to Mission Agencies

Missionaries are not robots. They are not machines that receive the Great Commission as data...

May 2020

May 13, 2020

8 Ways to Help Returning Missionaries

Churches want to support missionaries. They just want to know how. Most mission agencies and...

May 05, 2020

I sacrificed more by leaving the mission field

“I sacrificed more by leaving the mission field.” When my friend recently made this statement,...

December 2018

December 11, 2018

Advice for undertrained missionaries like John Chau

Everyone but the All Nations missions organization seems to agree that John Chau was not...

December 04, 2018

John Chau, Outcome Bias, and the Consequences of Confusion

Sadly, missionary John Chau’s death to the North Sentinelese people will set back the effort...

August 2018

August 21, 2018

Love Lost for the Cause of Christ

"I never made a sacrifice." It doesn't always feel like that. In Love Lost for...

November 2017

November 21, 2017

Why Do We Have “Missionary Wives” But Not “Missionary Husbands”?

A gender divide has always existed among missionaries. We ought to understand the problem before...

May 2013

May 13, 2013

The Dangers of Being an Evangelical Missiologist

I once had a good friend jokingly say, "I can't tell if you are a...

March 2013

March 08, 2013

Is "Reproducibility" a Necessity of Insufficient Training?

In the last post, I suggested that "reproducibility" can subtly disguise a common idol---time. The...

March 07, 2013

Reproducibility: Idol or Necessity in Modern Missions?

Contemporary missions literature places a high value on reproducibility.The acceptability of a methodology is judged...

March 05, 2013

Are Missionaries Ashamed of the Language of Paul's Gospel?

I teach Romans in Chinese. It’s painful sometimes. Don’t misunderstand me. I love Romans. Much...

January 2013

January 28, 2013

7 Reasons to Get to the Mission Field Before You're 30 (from The Gospel in China blog)

Here are some good reasons why you should NOT wait for the kids to get...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

"Should Missionaries Learn Classical Literature as well?" (A Response to a Question)

Someone left a comment on the previous post about Hudson Taylor and the state on...

December 29, 2012

Contextualizing Hudson Taylor (Part Two)

This post interacts with the second part of a blog series posted by Global China...

December 20, 2012

Theology Drives Methodology: Is Evangelicalism a Modern Synthesis of Finney and Nevin?

In a previous post, I summarized Karl Dahlfred's Theology Drives Methodology: Conversion in the Theology...

December 08, 2012

Help with Cultural Transition

Craig Thompson, over at Clearing Customs, has a helpful article with "Eleven Tips for Helping...

December 07, 2012

Encouragement to Language Learners from John Piper

Originally Posted at Desiring God.

December 05, 2012

Not Everyone is a Missionary . . . And That’s OK (Part 2)

In the last post, I said that while I love the emergence of missional language,...

December 03, 2012

One of those thousand cuts….

(This is a follow-up to an on-going series "Death by a Thousand Cuts") chinese traffic...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

Not Everyone is a Missionary . . . And That's OK (Part 1)

If you want to cause a stir among people in the ministry word, one way...

November 27, 2012

Balance in a Missional Life?

Here are some good words for those who seek to live a missional life: Balance...

November 14, 2012

Death By a Thousand Cuts

When people think about the cost of being a missionary, they typically think about being...