Over recent centuries, the development and refining of missiology has helped the Church focus on the missional task at hand. It may have begun in the colonial context with a geographical focus but has been considerably refined in recent decades to direct our attention to people groups and today to the more than 7,000 people […]
Max Chismon
Max Chismon is the International Director of Simply Mobilizing International (SMI). He and his wife founded the organization in response to a clear call to help mobilize the Filipino Church towards cross-cultural ministry to unreached peoples.
Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing, in 2023
New year’s resolutions are a common talking point in early January of each year. They range from more prayer to weight loss and everything in between! But how about, for 2023, a special focus on ‘keeping the main thing the main thing’? Minoring on majors and majoring on minors is a recipe for, at worse, […]
My Recent Trip to the Philippines and Europe
I have been away (from NZ) for just under two months. The first three weeks was spent in the Philippines with the SMI Center team. This was a great time of catching up with everyone and it was so good seeing the Center Team doing so well! My main purpose for this travel was to […]
Mobilizers – Preparing a People for Eternity
This ‘age’ is as much about the perfecting of the Church as it is about making disciples of all nations! An idea, we Mobilizers, often neglect at our peril! These two great themes run like parallel tracks throughout scripture! God taking out of the world a people for His name (Ac 15: 13-18) and God perfecting […]
Has Mission Come Full Circle?
Have we come full circle? Do we find ourselves, today, in a mission context very similar to that of Paul and the early Church? Mission in Paul’s day was E1* and E2*. Cultural adaptation of the message was necessary, but learning a new language was not! The cities of the Roman world, such as Ephesus, […]
Interpreting Scripture in the Context of Mission
Scripture must be interpreted in the context of mission! Wow, quite a statement, and one that not all seminary professors might be comfortable with, nor most pastors, I would hasten to add! In fact, I would surmise that the vast majority of church leaders today, regardless of their field of leadership, would quite possibly find […]
Mobilization – As a Journey
Mobilization is a journey, not an event. Seminars, courses and other mobilization programs are the events. The journey into active and fruitful participation in the world Christian movement is a journey that demands many ‘events’ and a lot of personal processing of what these events provide, in the form of new information and challenges. […]
Understanding the Nature of Missions Today
Never before in mission history has the world existed as it does today – never before have the opportunities for harvest been so favorable, and never before has the need for mobilization been so urgent! Through the amazing efforts of the missionaries laboring in the first and second eras of the modern missionary movement (1792 – […]
Critical Issues: Defining ‘Mission’ and Mission Terms
The word ‘mission’ has been defined “both by theology and context. The context, for the past two hundred years, has been the ‘modern missionary movement’ that began, developed and grew during the Colonial period of world history. This period has shaped much of the way we have interpreted biblical passages that speak of the ‘mission […]
The Things That MUST HAPPEN Before The Lord Will Return
Personally, I have never believed the second coming of Christ depended on the arrival of a fixed date. That is not to say that God, in His infinite knowledge, doesn’t know the exact day when Jesus will return (Ac 1:7). THAT DAY, I believe, is determined far more by the fulfillment of God’s purposes than […]