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 – […]
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.
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 […]
Is this the Most Inspired Idea to Accelerate Missions Today?
The world Christian movement is my term of choice to describe God’s agenda for this age and therefore the Church’s all consuming occupation on planet earth! World means it is a global, Christian means it is all to do with Christ’s Kingdom and movement refers to the spread and advance of Christ’s Kingdom in ever widening circles to […]
The World Christian Movement – A Double Edged Sword
Who really benefits from the world Christian movement? Well, of course the unreached and the unsaved do! They get the chance to hear the ‘good news’, respond, and experience the fulfillment to their spiritual search both as a ‘people’ and as a person! But have you ever wondered why God entrusted the Great Commission to […]
Mobilizers and the ‘Go’ in the Great Commission
Peter Wagner points out that the main verb in the Great Commission is ‘make disciples’ (Mt 28:18-20). However the first verb to appear in the Great Commission is ‘GO! Making disciples, of all nations, for sure, is not possible without the ‘going’. For apostles/ charged with taking the gospel to regions beyond/ this is never […]
The Ministry of Mobilization — A Summary
MOBILIZATION’ is the most helpful term to describe the ministry of the prophet in both Old and New Testaments. Over the past months I have been writing on the subject of ‘The Ministry of Mobilization.’ I have endeavored to explain, as clearly as I could, the biblical, historical and current significance of this ministry – how God used […]
So, What’s Gone Wrong?
So, why don’t all God’s people actively, effectively and enthusiastically participate in the world Christian movement? Is God no longer as generous in giving visions, dreams and prophecies to ALL His people? Has He become more selective over the generations? Has Jesus waned in His enthusiasm to disciple ALL nations? Has the Holy Spirit indeed ceased […]
Understanding the Foundation Upon Which the Church is Built
Paul is very clear – Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which the Church is built (1Co 3:11). He elaborates further, however, when writing to the Ephesian believers and explains that Jesus is the chief cornerstone, and apostles and prophets are included in forming that all important foundation upon which the Church is built (Eph […]
Saved by Grace, Saved for Works: What are the Works We have Been Saved For?
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10b How far ‘in advance’ did God prepare these ‘good works’ and what exactly are the ‘good works’ we are supposed to do? Well, at a bare minimum they were prepared […]