Paul BorthwickDevelopment Associates

International

• How can we be like the biblical ‘men of Issachar’

• People who “understood their times and knew how the people of God should respond”?

• I Chronicles 12:32

World religions versus pluralism Religious fundamentalism increasing some

places Abandonment of Absolutes elsewhere “JIHAD” vs. “McWorld”

 

Increased materialism / Increased poverty

Diseases and Disasters

Urbanization & Youth

Persecution and Nominalism

The new faces of mission – “from every nation to every nation”

Given these realities, how do we respond?

The open door of opportunity• Revelation 3:8• I Corinthians 16:9• Colossians 1:6; 4:3

People of INTEGRITY can walk through

the door

INFORMED people can walk through the door

INTERCESSORS can walk through the door

INCARNATIONAL people can walk through the door

INFLUENCERS and INFILTRATORS can walk through the door

INNOVATORS can walk through the door

INSPIRED people can walk through the door

INTREPID (fearless) people can walk through the door

INTERNATIONAL people can walk through the door