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John Stott concludes his chapter on dialogue in Christian Missions in the Modern World with three illustrations of dialogue in action. They include dialogue with Hindus, Moslems, and with the unreached masses of industrial Great Britain in the mid-1960s.
In each of these examples Stott builds his case around a missionary to a particular culture [...]

We continue our summary of the contents of John Stott’s Christian Mission in the Modern World. Having made the case against dialogue, Stott walks across the aisle in an effort to build up the defendant he has just ravaged.
Before introducing us to the marks of true dialogue, Stott invokes a unique word to describe [...]

How about a pic of a young John Stott? We were all there at some point in time. You can already see it in his eyes can’t you? He must be thinking, “Now if I can just get those silly Catholics to sit down at a table with me and chat,” or [...]

For the last couple of weeks Champ and I have been reviewing John R. W. Stott’s book Christian Mission in the Modern World (IVP, 1975). Having hit the themes of mission and evangelism, the focus this week is on dialogue. To summarize our conclusions: 1) mission primarily involves the proclamation of the [...]

On Memorial Day, we pause to remember those men and women who have served our nation, even at the cost of their own lives. But today is also a good day to remember those who have given their lives to serve the kingdom of God.
Martin Luther lived a very full and fascinating life for God [...]

As we’ve been going through Stott’s book on mission(s) and have learned that it’s best not to bait our evangelistic hook with the lure of social help, the following scenario has come up in conversation.
If you were running a homeless shelter in your town, which provided temporary room, board, and work skills training to men [...]

A tract strategically placed on the sink counter (or worse) at a highway rest stop. Leading three kids to pray a sinner’s prayer through the screen door while their parents are away and unaware of the door-to-door visit. Forty-five minute long invitations designed to get someone, anyone forward. Shouting at bar patrons [...]

The second half of John Stott’s chapter on “Evangelism” (in Christian Mission in the Modern World) sets forward the content of the good news we are to proclaim. “In a single word, God’s good news is Jesus. . . . Jesus Christ is the heart and soul of the gospel.” (Acts 8:35; Romans 1:1-4) “But [...]

Last week, we began a series of posts based on John R. W. Stott’s book, “Christian Mission in the Modern World.” Stott’s book has five chapters, each one addressing a key word related to mission(s)—mission, evangelism, dialogue, salvation, conversion. Last week, Jon reviewed the first chapter (mission—part 1, part 2, and part 3), and this [...]

In the wider discussion of the relationship between Gospel proclamation and social action, there are two general schools of thought. In his book, Paradigms in Conflict, missiologist David Hesselgrave calls these two approaches (1) “holism” and (2) “prioritism.”
In an article on the Lausanne Pulse.com website, Evvy Campbell describes holism this way:
Holistic mission can be defined [...]

In Jon’s excellent post yesterday on “mission(s)”, he described how John Stott outlines three ways to relate evangelistic proclamation and social action. (1) Social action as a means to evangelization. (2) Social action as a manifestation of evangelism. And (3) social action as an equal, yet independent partner with evangelism.
And as Jon mentioned yesterday, Stott [...]

Having established that Stott in Christian Mission in the Modern World advocates a missional third rail between the concepts of “mission as strictly evangelism” and “mission as only social action,” namely, that mission entails everything God sends His people into the world to accomplish, let’s explore the relationship Stott perceives between evangelism and social action.
Three [...]

This post is a continuation of the review begun yesterday here. On the way to wrestling with a biblical view of “mission” in Christian Mission in the Modern World, John Stott points out two views he believes are mistaken.
The first is to define mission exclusively in terms and actions related to evangelistic proclamation. [...]

Al Mohler and Alan Jacobs on An Evangelical Manifesto. HT: BM
“Living Weak,” a thoughtful blog post by a believer dealing with cancer.
Evangelicals answer the question, “What is the most crying need of the church today?” I bet I could have told you the theme of each guy’s response before I read it. [...]

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