For the Multitude » Theology of Mission

The Task Remaining

Dave Baylor — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:35:01 +0000

It is about 40 days after the resurrection of Jesus. Acts 1:3, tells us that Jesus used the time between His resurrection and His ascension back to the Father to teach His disciples more about the Kingdom of God. Near the end of this time, Jesus gave His disciples what is now popularly called the [...]

Empowering the Church

Dave Baylor — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:56:12 +0000

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Yesterday evening (New Years Day), I watched one of my favorite movies, End of the Spear. If you have not seen it, you need to. The movie centers on the events and aftermath surrounding the tragic loss of 5 missionaries in the Ecuadorian jungle in 1956 during an attempt to bring [...]

How to Enhance Your Short Term Mission Trip

Dave Baylor — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:35:06 +0000

As you know from my last post, my family and I are currently attending pre-field training at Mission Training International in Palmer Lake, CO. This week we have been attending our final week of the PILAT (Program in Language Acquisition Techniques) program. During this week we have been learning about how to choose a language [...]

Importance of Indigenous Languages

Dave Baylor — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:00:05 +0000

One of the stickier issues in mission circles is the use of indigenous languages versus a second language such as English. One of the groups involved in this discussion is the Alliance for Vulnerable Mission (AVM). Among other things they advocate the use of indigenous languages whenever possible (which I happen to [...]

Book Review – Giving Wisely?

Dave Baylor — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:36:57 +0000

Martin, Jonathan. Giving Wisely: Killing with Kindness or Empowering Lasting Transformation? Sisters, OR: Last Chapter Publishing, 2008.

Generosity. How does one be truly generous? Is it merely a matter of giving money? Is there a right way and wrong to be generous? Is it possible to kill someone or something with generosity? These are some of the [...]

Cultural Intelligence – A Review

Dave Baylor — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:24:21 +0000

Livermore, David A. Cultural Intelligence: Improving Your CQ to Engage Our Multicultural World (Youth, Family, and Culture). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009. ISBN# 978-0-8010-3589-0.

Cultural Intelligence is the second book in a Youth, Family and Culture Series edited by well known youth minister/educator Chap Clark at Fuller Theological Seminary. This second book is [...]

What is Your Role in Missions?

Dave Baylor — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:10:14 +0000

Jesus entrusted His disciples (and that includes us) with the mission to “make disciples of all the nations (Mt. 28:19)” and to be His “witnesses (Acts 1:8)” at home and to the very ends of the earth. While this end goal may be clear, the specifics of how this is to be accomplished are less [...]