Discerning the will of Christ for world evangelization
The Deaths of the Twelve Apostles - 1 views
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Historians such as Tacitus, Tertullian, Suetonius and many others recorded how Christianity faced unprecedented persecution after the death of Christ and the rise of Emperor Nero to power. All of the original apostles of Christ faced trials and were put to death either by the Roman Empire or local authority figures - but they all died for their faith.
The Cape Town Commitment - Lausanne Movement - 0 views
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Unreached and unengaged peoples
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thousands of people groups around the world for whom such access has not yet been made available through Christian witness
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Why Does God Allow Suffering? - 1 views
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The questions readily rise to mind and on the surface seem reasonable: yet a candid look at them shows that they carry certain implications. They imply that suffering in human life is inconsistent either with the power or with the love of God: that as a God of love either He has not the power to prevent the suffering, or if He has the power then He has not the will, and is not a God of love. It is assumed that the prevention of suffering as it now affects the apparently innocent is something we should expect from a God of love who is also Almighty. Are these assumptions justified?
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Underlying all the loose thinking on the subject which has been surveyed so far is one basic assumption: it is that suffering is evil in itself.
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suffering is not evil in itself, but a symptom of a deeper evil. The Scriptures portray suffering as a consequence of sin: not necessarily the sin of the individual who suffers, but sin in the history of man and in human society.
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The God Whom We Worship - 1 views
The quality of our worship depends upon our knowledge of the One whom we worship. If we have a poor understanding of God's character and nature, our worship will be very weak. Little knowledge mean...
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