The idea implicit in the term cross-cultural ministryis that Christians must minister across cultures to be effective witnesses of Jesus Christ. The passing of two millennia of Christian history has proven that Jesus Christ has universal appeal, in that people from all cultural and ethnic backgrounds become believers in Him. Because Christ has universal appeal, […]
Giving the Great Commission to the Church, Jesus commanded, “Go ye [all of you] therefore, and teach [make disciples of] all nations . . . teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you” (Matt. 28:19-20 KJV). Since the founding of the first Sunday school by Robert Raikes in England in 1780, Sunday […]
At the height of Jesus’ popularity, multitudes of people, sometimes numbering in the thousands, came to see and hear Him, and to be ministered to by Him. While the Gospel writers tell of the multitudes that were attracted to Jesus, they were careful to make a distinction between multitudes and disciples. For example, in Matthew’s […]