Too Important Not to Share

One Mercedes Benz TV commercial shows their car colliding with a cement wall during a safety test. Someone then asks the company spokesman why they do ...

Arithmetic from Hell

A kind of arithmetic has been spawned in the counting rooms of hell. This kind of arithmetic is always interested in reaching the masses but somehow never ...

Just Tell Who Jesus Is

My family and team have gone to over sixty countries declaring the glory of God. When I first went to the Muslim-, Hindu-, and Buddhist-majority nations, ...

Crisis as Opportunity

The modern world is said to have made discipleship harder. But it has also made evangelism easier. Today's world is said to be multiplying crises all ...

The Power of Humble Clothing

Missionaries who dressed like the Chinese suffered a few snags. In the gossipy colonial enclaves of Shanghai and Hong Kong, "going native" caused ...

Making a Good Impression

When as a young man Robert Morrison had first sailed to China, he was asked, "Do you really expect to make an impression on the idolatry of the great ...

Analogies for Evangelism

Evangelism is like strong horseradish: people praise it with tears in their eyes.

There are other word associations we could make with the concept of evangelism. ...

Paying the Price of Evangelism

Judy Anderson, whose husband is the West Africa Director of the World Relief Corporation, grew up as the daughter of missionaries in Zaire. As a little ...

Invitation to a Banquet

Evangelism is witness. It is one beggar telling another beggar where to get food. The Christian does not offer out of his bounty. He has no bounty. He ...

Preaching and Sweating

The British missionaries who led my family to Christ made all the cultural mistakes in the book. I remember as a little boy sitting in the front row, ...