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Religions and mission in the Arab world
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A.W. Tozer said that ‘Only a disciple can make a disciple’. The Capetown Commitment includes this statement: ‘We need intensive efforts to train all God's people in whole-life discipleship, which means to live, think, work, and speak from a biblical worldview and with missional effectiveness in every place or circumstance of daily life and work.’ Continuing with our papers on discipleship we present further papers from the Workshop on Discipleship held in September last year.
The first paper explores the way mission agencies articulate their vision and purpose, and asks where discipleship is placed in the work of the gospel today. The second paper explores the way the early church went about the task of discipleship and draws us back to consideration of the centrality of the Church in the discipleship of God’s people. Then we explore one of the significant tools for discipleship today, Theological Education by Extension (TEE). Case studies explore the way TEE has been used n the Mongolian context and the impact when it is part of the programme of the Church.
There are two other papers. One studies the Riggs Report on evangelism and asks whether this was an early experiment into contextualisation. The second invites us to look at the meaning of adoption and its implications for ministry in among Muslims today.
As you read and examine these papers, we invite you to search the scriptures and wrestle with ministry the gives evidence of the Kingdom of God come among us.
Melanie McNeal
Contributing Editor
Please note: the views expressed in these papers do not necessarily represent the views of St Francis Magazine or its sponsoring organisations.
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Mission Paradigms: Is Discipleship Important? By Melanie McNeil >>Download the pdf
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Discipleship in the Early Church by Rev Dr Jos M. Strengholt >>download the pdf
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TEE, Church-Planting and Discipleship in Two Mongolian Churches by Graham Aylett
>>download the pdf
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The 1938 Riggs Report on the “Near East Christian Council Inquiry on the Evangelization of Moslems”: an aborted beginning to the Insider Movement strategy By Duane Alexander Miller >>download the pdf
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Adoption in Christ: the best gift ever By Salaam Corniche >>download the pdf
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Complete Issue St Francis Magazine Vol 9, No 2 | April 2013 >> Download the pdf
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Newsflash |
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Muslims turning to Christ |
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A conference paper on how the environment of the 20th C. has changed, which has created a situation wherein more Muslims than ever are becoming Christians.
The paper can be found HERE
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Egypt- Azhar and churches embrace |
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Interesting developments in Egypt: Al-Azhar publishes a 'bill of civil rights' and the churches love it. |
Middle East Cincern just released a report on the tensions in Sudan due to the upcoming referendum. Download the pdf here
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Good report on the status of Islamic Televangelism HERE
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On this website you can find Bart Barber's musings on The Camel Method, including many discussions with his readers.
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Good article on contextualization |
Here a good article on the history and dimensions of 'contextualization' in muslim evangelism. >>download pdf
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