Because we must hear and obey the word of God in a specific context, many Christians are seriously asking after the divine command for them in a world largely poor and hungry.
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When this article appeared, Samuel Escobar had been a leading evangelical theologian in Latin America.

Fred Morris went to Brazil in 1964 as a missionary of the United Methodist Church and served for nearly five years in southern Brazil near Rio de Janeiro.

Free people are not having an easy time in the world today nor are we likely to in the decades ahead.

Anticipate the all-pervasive, all-encompassing nature of God’s call to give him your lives unconditionally (1 Peter 4:2).

To people interested in establishing a new community I would encourage them to see 1) who the leaders are, 2) what the purpose of the community is, and 3) what the commitment among them is.

Looking at failure experiences in community is like rereading the Old Testament. God is at work, and there is a certain revelation of his will.

Fellowship of Hope began six years ago with a vision of church life that was characterized by commitment and discipline.

Prayer is the acid test of personal faith. When there is no prayer there is no faith relationship.

The right to amass capital and its concomitant power has been maintained and practiced by many Christians. It is not without cause that Marx connects Christianity with capitalism.

Those who possess money and property usually feel they have the right to use these things for their own benefit. But this is not the way of Christian love.

The ugly agony of Indochina is made all the more tortuous by the delusive refusal of this nation to accept the culpability for decades of a morally indefensible policy whose final failure is now being revealed.

There are two renewal movements gaining momentum and creating widespread impact in the evangelical churches and across the face of the entire Christian community today.