Discipling Nations

Disciple Nations Alliance I have just returned from a week long conference in South Africa hosted by Disciple Nations Alliance (DNA). My connection with DNA came from a providential meeting with one its founders Darrow Miller in Manila last year. I attended the conference to find out first hand what makes DNA tick and what [...]

One tract, one verse and a village transformed

This is a story of community transformation reported by Vishal Mangalwadi. Vishal is from India and has been described as the Indian C.S Lewis. Vishal is a scholar who founded a community to serve the rural poor in his homeland. He has authored many books – one of the latest is “Truth and Transformation” which [...]

Kingdom vs Church mindset

December 2010 Contrasting Kingdom mindset with a church mindset by Paul Mattera “Kingdom” denotes the rule of God over the whole cosmos, not just a single entity on the earth, like the church. In spite of this, most preaching today has as its goal to get people to make a weekly two-hour commitment to come [...]

Doesn’t Wholism Just Send Well-fed, Clothed People to Hell?”

by Gary Brumbelow That assertion is sometimes made of a comprehensive approach to Christian ministry such as taught by the DNA. At one level, this is a straw-man argument, an attack of a caricature of wholism. The DNA is not among those who promote feeding the hungry while ignoring their spiritual dimension. But there’s another [...]

Christian Faith and Chinese productivity

October 2010 At first glance, it looks as though it could be any other factory driving the rapid development of the Chinese economy. But this is no ordinary enterprise because here religious faith is as important as profit. In fact, the owner of the Boteli Valve Group in Wenzhou would like to see all his [...]

Evangelism is not working … but it could be

September 2010 Evangelism is not working But it could be… by Mark Greene Amongst all the huff and puff, wailings and gnashing of teeth about the state of the Church, one central fact has been overlooked… the bulk of church-generated initiatives have nothing to do with the way people spend the bulk of their waking [...]

Transformation: Dream or Reality

June 2010 Transformation: Dream or reality? Many people involved in missions are wondering, “Shouldn’t we be seeing more transformation in our societies after all the apparent conversions and new church plants? What has gone wrong? Should we do something differently?” These are important questions that need to be addressed. In this article Bob Moffit, founder [...]

Discipling Nations

May 2010 Discipling Nations I have just come back from a visit to the Philippines. On my first morning in Manila I had the joy of meeting Darrow Miller over breakfast at the guest house we both were staying at. Darrow is the author of the book ‘Discipling Nations’ and is the co-founder of the [...]

Creating a Culture of Influence

April 2010 Creating a culture of influence by Mal Fletcher Mal Fletcher is the founder of Next Wave International a faith-based communications group based in London which is training organizations to engage the future and move society forward in a positive direction. Prior to this role Mal worked in Australia and was the pioneer of [...]

Business as mission

March 2010 Missional shift within churches Leadership conducted a survey in May 2008 asking nearly 700 evangelical pastors how their perceptions of the gospel and mission currently compare with their understanding a decade ago. The results clearly indicate that pastors’ attitudes and beliefs are shifting. When asked if “the kingdom of God is a present [...]

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