Endnotes
INTRODUCTION
Rick
Warren, in The Purpose-Driven Church (Grand Rapids:
Zondervan, 1995), 399 pp. uses the analogy of riding
a wave to great effect. Many are indebted to him
for this contagious insight.
Habakkuk 1:5, 2:14, 3:1-4, 16-19, continues this
theme of imminent judgment echoed by a future hope
of God's glory and redemption. The source of Habakkuk's
hope in the midst of despair is clearly revealed
in Habakkuk 2:20 "The Lord is in his holy temple;
let all the earth keep silence before him."
CHAPTER
1 NEW WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES
"Discovering
a New World," in Time (April 6, 1992), p. 38.
United Nations projections range from 7.7 billion
to 11.2 billion by the year 2050.
"Population Trends" in The 1998 Britannica
Book of the The 1998 Britannica Book of the Year,
p. 298.
Ibid.
Robert Kaplan,"The Coming Anarchy" in
The Atlantic The Atlantic Monthly February 1994,
Vol. 273, No. 2, pp. 44ff.
"Refugees and International Migration"
in The 1998 The 1998 Britannica Book of the Year,
p. 299.
"Tourism," in The 1998 Britannica Book
of the Year, p. 176.
Ibid.
Renato Ruggiero, WTO Director-General, in a speech
delivered in Berlin, Germany October 23, 1997 entitled
"Services in a Borderless Economy" retrived
on-line from www.wto.org/wto/press/press80.htm .,
p. 1 of 7.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Adapted from "Computers" in Borgna Bruner,
ed. The The 1998 Information Please Almanac (Boston:
Information Please, 1997), p. 557.
Ibid., p. 180.
"Machine of the Year" in Time (January
3, 1983). p.1
"Computers and Information Systems" in
The 1998 The 1998 Britannica Book of the Year, p.
179.
Ibid.
CHAPTER 2 NEW GOALS
In
1980, the Foreign Mission Board Recorded 110,032
baptisms. By 1989 the number reached 227,564.
In 1980, the Foreign Mission Board registered 11,510
churches outside the United States. By 1989, the
number had risen to 21,242, and by 1990 climbed
to 24,122.
The high-water mark came in 1994, when we recorded
302,132 baptisms around the world.
This remarkable story is described in Toward a Church
Toward a Church Planting Movement, ed. by Mark Snowden
(Richmond: International Mission Board, 1998). It
is presently an in-house document and can be obtained
through the Media Consultant in the Office of Overseas
Operations.
These are self-described churches with local leadership
and regular worshiping bodies. No attempt has been
made to limit the numbers to those churches which
have been constituted by a local Baptist Union.
Several of these church-planting movements are described
in the booklet Toward a Church Planting Movement.
Final words of the vision statement of the Office
of Overseas Operations.
CHAPTER 3 NEW FOCUS
In
each old Testament case cited, the Hebrew word used
is goyim, which is better understood as people than
what we currently conceive of with modern political
nations.
The New Testament word ethne, like its Old Testament
counterpart goyim, is more accurately viewed as
a people group than a geopolitical entity such as
a nation.
CHAPTER 5 NEW RESOURCES
See
for example, www.Brigada.org
.
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