For the Love of the American Church
What makes the church a sanctuary, a safe place, a place of refuge? It is only the presence of God alone or do Christian leaders have a responsibility to create and maintain the environment? I believe it is both. Leaders are...
Responding Biblically to the Moral Failure of Pastoral Leadership
What happens when a Christian leader you love, trust, and respect breaks your trust and does something so heinous and morally repugnant that it shakes the very foundation of your faith? Now what happens when you are the leader responsible for investigating him or her,...
Godly Influence in Leadership
What does it mean to have Godly influence as a leader? It starts with the right foundation…
Miraculous Testimony: Chinese Woman Saved by Jesus Before She Ever Knew Him
Mei was an atheist living in China when a near drowning experience and encounter with a demonic spirit almost took her life. "I saw a big wave come and on top of the wave there was a big face, an ugly face. The minute I saw that face I knew it was (a) devil. It was...
Missions: Lost People vs Unreached Peoples
What's the difference between those who are lost and those who are unreached? This video from the team at Pioneers answers the question well.
First Year Priorities for Global Missionaries
If our relationship with God and our family fails, then our ministry fails. Our priority in the first year of mission work should always be to love God, keep a strong relationship with Him, and make sure our family is settling on a solid foundation. When you are...
Discerning Your Mission Calling and Preparation
Looking at the world’s needs today, someone with a passion to see Jesus worshipped among the nations, could easily be overwhelmed. Just narrowing a location down to a certain continent or people can be unnerving. But once you decide on a place, how do you prepare? I...
The Cost Effectiveness of Native Believers vs Americans in Global Mission
God does not see things as man sees them. I believe that there is no limitation in the area of finances when it comes to His kingdom. If God did not spare His own Son…the mostly costly gift that could be given, how much more would it not deter Him to send an American...
Native Missionaries Are Not Enough
There are God fearing and God loving people who do seek to reach their own people for Jesus, but in many nations their numbers compared to the population who don’t know God are very small. For instance, In Thailand where my family and I used to serve, less than 1% of...
American Missionaries Still Needed
Are American missionaries still needed in global missions work? Missionaries from all nations are still needed! There are over 7,000 unreached/least reached people groups totaling 3.19 billion people in the world today. This means that that these people have little to...
The Present Imbalance of Access to the Gospel in the World
The imbalance of the Gospel message in the world has been a burden in my heart over the years. A wise man once said, “The things that anger you are the things that you are assigned to change.” When God puts a healthy and holy anger in your heart, it is a clue to...
Why Go to the Frontiers of Mission When America Still Needs Jesus?
We, as the Church, should always be looking out for where God is working, wherever we are in the world, and seek to join Him in that work. We have all been called as ambassadors of Jesus Christ, calling men and women everywhere to be reconciled to God because of what...
Why Should I Care About Other Nations?
John Stott is quoted as saying, “We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.” Jesus tells us that the greatest commandments are to love God and to love our neighbor as ourselves. This leads to the question, “well then, who is my...
Wrestling with the Need for Evangelism and Missions
If people are good _______________, (fill in the blank with a religious affiliation) then why not just leave them alone and let them live according to their own consciences or according to the way they think is right? We must understand that Bible says, “There is a...
John Lambert
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Chapter 14: People of Power
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