By Andrew Scott
Andrew is the Vice President of Recruiting for Operation Mobilization USA.

'You cannot be my disciple ..' Jesus stated to those who gathered to listen. 'Unless.' I can imagine that the listeners waited with baited breath. With a readiness. A longing. This is exactly what they wanted to be. They had followed him for some time now and were totally amazed at what this Rabbi from Nazareth could do. Now he was giving them an opportunity to join him. An invitation to be part of the revolutionary mob, who would change the Roman dominated world. A ticket for the front row seat to miraculous stuff happening every day. They were ready for what would come after the 'unless' because this is what they wanted. Or was it? Would they want it so bad that no matter what came next they would be willing to do it? Would they be willing to count the cost of obedience to the post 'unless' list? As it turns out most wouldn't. In fact  more >

By Michael Oh
Michael is the president and founder of Christ Bible Seminary and Christ Bible Institute in Nagoya, Japan.

I just finished a Skype video conversation with a friend who for security reasons I'll call "Zhang" (which is the third most popular name in China according to my Google search which I performed wirelessly from my laptop borrowing a signal from some generous neighbor).

Zhang is a young house church pastor in China who I met at the Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering that took place two years ago in Malaysia. I had the privilege of giving the opening night talk where I challenged the 550 young leaders from 111 nations (possibly the largest and most representative gathering of young global Christian leaders in the history of the church), "How big is your God?" At the end of my talk, Zhang walked up to me and confessed, "Michael, sometimes my God is so small." He shared about the great challenges Christians   more >

By Stanley Ow
Stanley is the Executive Director of Singapore Centre for Evangelism and Missions.

Together with my wife, we were privileged to be among 470 people groups gathered at the recent 7th World Christian Gathering of indigenous people in the Holy Land, Israel. Representatives from more than 30 nations from Northern American Indians, the Maoris of New Zealand, the Sami People of the Arctic and a large delegate of 200 from Indonesia. They were decked out in their respective ethnic costumes, sang in their native language, dancing and playing on drums and musical instruments made from animal skins and hand-carved from barks of tree in praise to God. We stood amazed that the nations of the world will eventually come to worship God with the inclusion of these special groups of indigenous peoples of to share their unique way of worship to worship Him through their own cultural forms and styles. It is paramount for the church t  more >