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When Helping Hurts: How To Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting The Poor And Yourself (Book Review), John Visser Mar 2011

When Helping Hurts: How To Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting The Poor And Yourself (Book Review), John Visser

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Reviewed Title: Corbett, Steve, and Brian Fikkert. When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor and Yourself. Chicago: Moody, 2009. 230 pages. ISBN:978-0-8024-5705-9.


Missão Integral [Holistic Mission Or The ‘Whole Gospel’] Applied: Brazilian Evangelical Models Of Holistic Mission In The Arab-Muslim World, Edward L. Smither Jan 2011

Missão Integral [Holistic Mission Or The ‘Whole Gospel’] Applied: Brazilian Evangelical Models Of Holistic Mission In The Arab-Muslim World, Edward L. Smither

Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary (1973-2015)

In this article, I will first show the historical development of this theological approach within the Brazilian and Latin American evangelical spheres through the work of the Latin American Theological Fraternity – a movement founded in 1970 that maintained historic evangelical values (i.e. a high view of Scripture, the necessity of conversion) whilst also taking Latin America’s great social needs into account. Nurtured by thinkers such as René Padilla (Ecuador), Orlando Costas (Puerto Rico), Samuel Escobar (Peru), and later Valdir Steuernagel (Brazil), the movement has not only responded to the concerns raised by Liberation theologians, but it has also influenced …


The Missional Status Of African Christians In Diaspora: A Case Of The African Christian Fellowship And African-Led Churches In The United States Of America, Stanley Nwoji Jan 2009

The Missional Status Of African Christians In Diaspora: A Case Of The African Christian Fellowship And African-Led Churches In The United States Of America, Stanley Nwoji

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The God-Equipped Magnificent Obsession: A Christ-Centered And Values-Based Strategic Intent, Allen H. Quist Jan 2008

The God-Equipped Magnificent Obsession: A Christ-Centered And Values-Based Strategic Intent, Allen H. Quist

Journal of the American Society for Church Growth

It was the first-century believers’ Christ-centered core values that drove their evangelism behavior. Core values still drive the behavior of present day believers. For present day followers of Christ to maximize the work of Christ’s Great Commission, Christians need Christcentered core values held at an obsessive level, plus God’s preparation and provision. Believers making up the first-century church, engaged their world through touch points of their time; the Roman political system providing relatively safe travel and quality roads, the widely-used Greek language, and scattered post-Pentecost new Christian believers. Today’s Christians need to engage our world through the touch points of …


Good News To The Poor: The Place Of Microeconomic Development In Discipling And Poverty Alleviation In Nairobi, Kenya, Philip Kairu Thuo Jan 2007

Good News To The Poor: The Place Of Microeconomic Development In Discipling And Poverty Alleviation In Nairobi, Kenya, Philip Kairu Thuo

ATS Dissertations

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Christ At Work : Reflections On Market Economics And The Mission Of God, David B. Doty Jan 2006

Christ At Work : Reflections On Market Economics And The Mission Of God, David B. Doty

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.