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Mainstreaming Christianity by Rev. Dr. Danny
McCain, International Director-at-Large, International Institute for Christian
Studies (IICS).
Hearts And Minds Aflame For Christ: Irish Monks - A Model For
Academic Missions by Dr. Daryl McCarthy, President, International Institute for Christian Studies
(IICS).
A Testimony For Missions: Respect or Rejection? by Dr. Richard L. Smith, Former Teaching Fellow, International Institute for Christian
Studies (IICS).
Measuring Ministry Effectiveness - International Institute for Christian
Studies.
How does IICS measure its effectiveness for the Kingdom of God? This is an important and necessary question, one that every ministry must ask regularly. According to The World Leader's Almanac, for the first time in history, over 95 percent of all world leaders and heads of state possess a university degree. If you want to reach a nation, you must reach its leaders, and tomorrow's leaders are in today's university classrooms. Reaching these future leaders is the mission of the International Institute for Christian Studies.
Jesus uses several metaphors to describe the kind of influence that
Christians and Christianity are to have on the society and the nations of which
we are a part. Dr. McCain calls these "mainstreaming metaphors" because they
tell about the kind of mainstream effect that individual Christians and the
church should have upon the society, the culture and the governments of which we
are a part. The thesis of this paper is that individual Christians have a
responsibility to "mainstream Christianity."
Over the centuries between 600 and 1300, scores of Irish monks left their
homeland and spread out across Scotland, England and eventually all across the
European Continent, preaching the Gospel to pagans, teaching Scripture,
literature, the arts, and the sciences to kings and peasants alike and
establishing monastic communities which served as centers for education and
culture. Their teaching brought God's Word and civilization back to a Europe
which had been conquered and ruined by barbarians.
The Church in Africa in the Twenty-First Century by
Rev. Dr. Danny McCain, International Director-at-Large, International Institute
for Christian Studies (IICS).
Characteristics, Challenges and Opportunities: the twenty-first century will
be a time of excitement for the African Church as it continues to grow and
begins to assume a major role of leadership for Christianity as a whole.
Samuel P. Huntington predicted that the new century will be dominated by discord and instability as peoples and civilizations realign themselves according to "blood, language, religion, and way of life." What do Huntington's insights and recent world events tell the church about the Great Commission for this new era -- for this new century? How should missions proceed within the clash of civilizations? How should American missionaries operate within the context of anti-Western sentiment?
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