The phrase
"mission field" refers to a place or environment where a group or organization carries out a specific task or purpose related to their beliefs or goals. It often involves spreading a message, providing aid, or working towards a particular mission or objective in that specific area.
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In that sense, they are an
easier mission field because they don't resist the gospel with a false feeling of Christian security.
If you want to start a mission out in this
fast mission field, you need to know who to send and where to begin.
We supported one another, we offered hope to each other and our lives were, for the most part, happily engaged in the
hardest mission field we will ever face.
I think that our homes are our first and most
important mission field, but it is hard sometimes to live our walk at home.
An interesting development is the program which sends recent college graduates to
mission fields for periods of three years or more.
«Inappropriate» mission training refers to the situation that results when mission instructors don't have experience
in mission fields and can only speak theoretically.
Could football fans — this group of people gathering in weekly congregations, building community, worshipping and putting their money where their mouth is — be the great untapped
mission field of the UK?
He cites the late British missiologist Lesslie Newbigin, one of the first to describe the West as a
new mission field: «How can this strange story of God made man, of a crucified savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible?
Urbana, Operation Mobilization and many other instruments, including several working with teen - agers, have been raised up to channel converts toward the
foreign mission field.
In short, we needed to train missionaries to reach this
untapped mission field that gather together in church basements all over the world.
Marriage and motherhood are not the only way to biblical womanhood, as we see in so many of our spiritual mamas, despite our collective evangelical habit of treating single women and men as our personal match -
making mission field.
I am aware of a
related mission field, where the people being winessed to, are amazed by the discongruence btween the Gospel message, and the way so - called Christians treat the Christians witnessing to them.
I am available to advise any missionaries interested in doing a mission work in Africa on how to be cost effective, yet with great results / fruits for the Lord's kingdom as
per mission field they are going / or are interested in.
And there are evangelical Christians, who love Lin for loving Christ and, in his own quiet way, turning NBA courts across the nation into his own
private mission fields.
I envision a cadre of Christian cosmopolitans — similar to the «Fab Five» —
whose mission field is fashion - challenged clergy — aren't they all?
On a somewhat lighter note I was reminded of one of our erstwhile «missionaries» once telling us that someone had put used tea bags in a goodie pack for them on their return to the
African mission field.
It is true that Galilee is omitted in the list of stages in the
expanding mission field of the early church set forth in Acts 1:8; but this is to be explained, according to Professor Lohmeyer, by the hypothesis that Galilee was already terra Christiana, as the result of the work of Jesus himself.
I think when the current cultural crises have had some time to die down, the Nones will be a
fruitful mission field for evangelicals.
Biggest Surprise: Her.Meneutics with «The Newest
U.S. Mission Field: Women» [So can we PLEASE stop talking about the «feminization» of the Church already?]
Their drive for the honored and well - compensated positions contributes to the weakening of congregations located
in mission fields.
What about the
foreign mission field or a local Christian community, living in solidarity with the poor and dispossessed?
And perhaps my favorite: «With its 195 million unchurched people, America has become the
new mission field.
Another friend who works for a large Christian missions organization told me that the number of participants they were sending into
the mission field this summer was down by 60 percent, which translates into a few thousand missionaries for them.
Students are sometimes so wrapped up in their plans to honor God years later in
the mission field, or even later in the day at a Bible study, that they forget to honor Him in the classroom.
Kirill has challenged the Church to see all segments of Russian society — from bikers to rock music fans, from drug addicts to political candidates — as
its mission field.
$ 16.99 The author heads a California group called Christians United for Reformation (CURE) and his thesis, aimed especially at politicized evangelicals, is that Christians must choose between viewing America as a battlefield or
a mission field.
The mainline establishment sees a Third World with churches everywhere as no longer a «
mission field» in the classic sense.
Islam is
our mission field.
John's
mission field is a Muslim majority country of the Middle East.
Likewise, the response of Jesus to Peter in Matthew 19:29 about leaving wives and family might mean no more than going out on
the mission field and leavingthem for a season.
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