Posted on June 13th, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Cross • Culture • God • Gospel • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Missions • Northwest • Prayer • Seminary • Theology
Categories: Cultural Issues • Missiology
Jarrod Haas is a student in the Cross-cultural Leadership Training Program, CLTP @ Northwest, working towards an undergrad level diploma in preparation for cross-cultural ministry among Asians. CLTP is a one year, mentored, experienced based program that prepares the student for Master’s level seminary studies as well as equips them for ministry either internationally [...]
Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Bible • Church • Cross • Culture • God • Gospel • Jesus • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Missions • Northwest • Seminary
Categories: Cultural Issues • Missiology
Jarrod Haas is a student in the Cross-cultural Leadership Training Program, CLTP @ Northwest, working towards an undergrad level diploma in preparation for cross-cultural ministry among Asians. CLTP is a one year, mentored, experienced based program that prepares the student for Master’s level seminary studies as well as equips them for ministry either internationally [...]
Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Bible • Church • Cross • Culture • God • Gospel • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Missions • Northwest • Prayer • Scripture • Seminary • Theology
Categories: Cultural Issues • Missiology
Jarrod Haas is a student in the Cross-cultural Leadership Training Program, CLTP @ Northwest, working towards an undergrad level diploma in preparation for cross-cultural ministry among Asians. CLTP is a one year, mentored, experienced based program that prepares the student for Master’s level seminary studies as well as equips them for ministry either internationally [...]
Posted on June 4th, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Cross • Culture • God • Jesus • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Missions • New Testament • Northwest • Prayer • Seminary • Theology
Categories: Cultural Issues • Missiology
Jarrod Haas is a student in the Cross-cultural Leadership Training Program, CLTP @ Northwest, working towards an undergrad level diploma in preparation for cross-cultural ministry among Asians. CLTP is a one year, mentored, experienced based program that prepares the student for Master’s level seminary studies as well as equips them for ministry either internationally [...]
Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Cross • Culture • God • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Missions • Northwest • Seminary
Categories: CLTP • Cultural Issues • Missiology
Jarrod Haas is a student in the Cross-cultural Leadership Training Program, CLTP @ Northwest, working towards an undergrad level diploma in preparation for cross-cultural ministry among Asians. CLTP is a one year, mentored, experienced based program that prepares the student for Master’s level seminary studies as well as equips them for ministry either internationally [...]
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Bible • Church • Cross • Culture • Discipleship • God • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Missions • New Testament • Northwest • Old Testament • Religion • Seminary • Theology
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Program Outline
FIRST STAGE: Diploma in Cross-Cultural Leadership - (30 credits)
Fall Semester (12 credits)
This Semester is completed in a Canadian intercultural ministry setting
CCT 401 The People of God and the Practice of Ministry (4)
CCT 402 A Biblical Theology of World Missions (4)
CCT 403 World Religions (4)
Spring Semester (12 credits)
This Semester is completed with the Gateway Trax [...]
Posted on April 16th, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Cross • God • Ministry • Missions • Seminary
Categories: _Uncategorized
Serious Missions:
“Reaching Ahead”
at
Camp Qwanoes
1148 Smith Road, Crofton BC
Friday Supper February 6, 2009
thru
Sunday Lunch February 8, 2009
For adults 50+ who want to make a difference
by being involved in God’s mission to the world
What will this retreat do for you?
1) Help you discover what your role in God’s mission to the world should be
2) Inform [...]
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Bible • Church • Cross • Culture • Jesus • Leaders • Leadership • Prayer • Seminary
Categories: Cultural Issues • Culture • Leadership • Missiology
The Power Distance Contrast
In Pakistan there is a strong tradition of "holy men" who are called Pirs. One day I had a visit from a young man who informed me that he was the Pir of his village. I was puzzled by this because he was dressed in modern clothes and did not have the [...]
Posted on April 4th, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Cross • Culture • God • Seminary
Categories: Church • Culture
In the book UnChristian (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007), which deals with research from the Barna group, David Kinnaman refers to a survey which asked the participants to agree or disagree with the statement, “Christian churches accept and love people unconditionally, regardless of how people look or what they do” (p. 185). 20% of [...]
Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Cross • Jesus • Ministry • Theology
Categories: Cultural Issues • Missiology • Missions
The Christ of the Indian Road by E. Stanley Jones, 1925. Abington Press
E. Stanley Jones was a highly influential missionary who worked in India during the time of Gandhi. The principles for cross-cultural ministry presented in this classic are as valid today and in any context as they were when this book was written. His [...]
Posted on February 26th, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Bible • Cross • God • Jesus • Leaders • New Testament • Religion • Seminary
Categories: Christian Life • God's Love • Godliness
I came across an interesting theory. People act according to their conviction about the nature of God. If God is perceived as an autocratic patriarch whose rules must be followed without question, then that is how the leaders of that group will act. If God is viewed as a stern judge who is inflexible concerning [...]
Posted on January 17th, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Cross • Culture • God • Gospel • Jesus • Marriage • Seminary
Categories: Cultural Issues • Evangelism • Missiology
It feels impolite and invasive to challenge someone on a personal level
I am uncomfortable with direct methods of evangelism that early on present the hearer with an invitation to accept Christ as Lord and Savior. Part of my unease has to do with my Canadian upbringing. It feels impolite and invasive to challenge someone on [...]
Posted on January 10th, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Bible • Cross • New Testament • Scripture • Seminary • Translation
Categories: Bible • Hermeneutics • Missiology • Translation Issues
section headings … can be misleading
I like section headings in Bible translation. They are not part of the original text, but added by the translation team to assist the reader in three ways: “1. to help those already familiar with the Bible to find a passage they know; 2. to help those unfamiliar with the [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2007 by Dr. Lyle Schrag
Other tags: Church • Cross • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Seminary
Categories: _Uncategorized
Over the last couple of years I have compiled a massive list of internet resources. The amount of material that is available is huge. Some of it is helpful, a lot of it…well, it’s the internet after all.
As I’ve looked for material to use in Leadership Development, one of the best sites I’ve found comes [...]
Posted on December 28th, 2007 by nav
Other tags: Church • Cross • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Missions • Northwest • Seminary
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Centre for Leadership Development (NCLD)
Director: Dr. Lyle Schrag
NCLD operates at the intersection between the Seminary, local church and denominational ministry centre and serves to support good relations among these entities, so that together we can encourage the equipping of emerging ministry leaders within our churches. The traditional Seminary serves a very small percentage of the [...]
Posted on December 15th, 2007 by nav
Other tags: Alumni • Church • Cross • God • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Northwest • Seminary
Categories: _Uncategorized
Welcome Alumni! Our hope is that you will find this website a great resource for you. Click on the links to the left or follow the drop-down menu from the top to select areas of interest to alumni. Here is a greeting from Dr. Larry Perkins, our president.
Northwest is enjoying its 66th year of educational [...]
Posted on December 4th, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Cross • Culture • Jesus • Seminary
Categories: Cultural Issues • Evangelism • Missiology
The Common hunger of Humanity
What we as human beings search for and value in life is the “meaningful” and the “good.”
With regard to the “meaningful,” we are always trying to make sense of our world. Hopelessness, which is what we seek to avoid, is the antithesis of the “meaningful” and happens when the [...]
Posted on December 3rd, 2007 by Dr. Lyle Schrag
Other tags: Bible • Church • Cross • Jesus • Leaders • Ministry • Seminary
Categories: Church
As full disclosure, I should confess that I’ve been a fan of Willow Creek before Willow Ceek was Willow Creek. In the mid-1970’s the youth pastor of my home church in Park Ridge, Illinois was a Trinity College student named Bill Hybels. I always enjoyed coming home on holidays from Seminary just to see [...]
Posted on November 23rd, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Cross • Gospel • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Northwest • Seminary
Categories: CLTP • Church • Cultural Issues • Evangelism • Leadership
Joy’s (1) emotional pain was evident as she related her move from her family’s mono-ethnic Chinese church to a multiethnic congregation. She felt guilt as if she had somehow betrayed her home church.
Bob pastored a multi-ethnic congregation but was frustrated by his inability to recruit leadership from certain groups.
Jane enjoyed belonging to a church [...]
Posted on November 14th, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Bible • Cross • Culture • God • Jesus • Seminary
Categories: Bible • Cultural Issues • Culture • Hermeneutics • Missiology
Three ways to understand the Bible
My wife, Karen, heard a message by a young woman with no theological training on Jer 29:11, “I know the plans I have for you….” The young woman spoke of the verse as if it was addressed to us today and talked about the plans God has for us. Although [...]
Posted on November 6th, 2007 by Mr. Loren Warkentin
Other tags: Church • Cross • Northwest • Seminary
Categories: Internet • Website 101
…where does one start when planning a church website?
Today I am launching a series of articles for churches on the topic of church websites. Have you grappled with how to start, develop and maintain a good church website? Have you learned some great secrets that you would be willing to share? I hope to add a number of [...]
Posted on October 31st, 2007 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other tags: Cross • Culture
Categories: Culture • Hell
Tonight is Halloween.
The weather reports in our area give a 60% chance for rain this evening. Visibility will be worse than usual. I expect that we’ll all need to drive home especially carefully in the darkness tonight. Children, normally safe at home after dark, will be costumed and out tonight; more mindful of the prospects [...]
Posted on October 16th, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Cross • Ministry
Categories: Christian Life • Discipleship
During the time we lived in Larkana, Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto became prime minister of Pakistan. Since Larkana was her family home town, there were some obvious perks. One of the most obvious was the construction of several fountains at key intersections. Each fountain had a plaque proclaiming the name of the patron who had funded [...]
Posted on October 8th, 2007 by Mr. Loren Warkentin
Other tags: Cross • Jesus • Thanksgiving
Categories: Internet • Salvation • Thanksgiving
Warning!!
"if you don’t know what an alpha release is, don’t use this software!!"
I love the concept of free web software - a web application that has been designed by someone out there in cyberland who has put it up on the net to be downloaded and used freely (donations always appreciated). It is in this [...]
Posted on October 1st, 2007 by Dr. Kenton Anderson
Other tags: Cross • Seminary
Categories: Evangelism • Preaching
I heard Jeff Arthurs from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary read this little parable at an Evangelical Homiletics Society gathering many years ago. Afterwards I asked him for a copy so that I could share it with my classes. It was published in 1919 by William Eleazar Barton, otherwise known as “Safed the Sage”. The piece has [...]
Posted on September 21st, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Cross • God • Leaders • Ministry • Missions • Northwest • Prayer • Seminary
Categories: _Uncategorized
Best Practices For Church Missions
Developing effective and impacting Missions participation in FEBCC Churches
Basic Workshop:
Vision, Strategy and Planning
The workshops held on March 1 (Vancouver Island, Victoria), and March 8 ( Lower Mainland, Langley), 2008 were a success. A total of 13 churches participated guided by competent and enthusiastic facilitators experienced in missions.
"[The workshops have exceeded [...]
Posted on September 21st, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Bible • Church • Cross • Culture • God • Leaders • Ministry • Missions • Northwest • Seminary
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Support, Workshops and Resources
Many churches are presently involved in short term missions projects. These STM trips provide “teachable moments” that can be utilized to expand a person’s commitment to what God is doing in the world. Northwest Baptist Seminary and FEBInternational would like to be of service to our FEBCC churches by enhancing their efforts [...]
Posted on September 19th, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Cross • Culture • God • Gospel • Jesus • Ministry • Missions • Prayer • Scripture • Seminary
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Significant Conversations
… where “heaven overlaps with the earth.”
God loves words
He started the world with words
Let there be light!
His words became conversations
Adam, where are you?
And his conversations continued
I am the LORD your God, I delivered you. You are my people
But when God wanted to speak his deepest message of love, [...]
Posted on September 19th, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Cross • Culture • God • Gospel • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Northwest • Seminary • Theology
Categories: _Uncategorized
Contact Mark Naylor at mark.naylor@twu.ca for further information. All workshops, seminars and interactive programs are available to our FEBBC/Y on Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland upon request and dependent upon Mark’s schedule. There is no fee attached to these programs, although there may be some incidental costs.
Resolving Intercultural Conflicts
Gleaned from the experiences of [...]
Posted on September 19th, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Cross • Culture • Jesus • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Religion • Translation
Categories: _Uncategorized
Resources
Intercultural Network Canada has a number of interesting and innovative resources for developing effective cross-cultural relationships. Their mission is to cross cultures to reach, resource and release ethnic leaders for Jesus Christ. For those who like to throw parties as a means of creating new friends, check out the Party Hints Package.
How does one Grow as [...]
Posted on September 19th, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Cross • God • Leaders • Leadership • Missions • Northwest • Prayer • Seminary
Categories: _Uncategorized
The following code of best practices for church mission mobilizers is provided from a desire to start a conversation about how Church mission mobilizers can be most effective in engaging their congregations with the global mission. Please contact us for your input.
Code of Best Practices for Church Mission Mobilizers
A guide for facilitators of church [...]
Posted on September 19th, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Cross • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Northwest • Seminary
Categories: _Uncategorized
Based on a minimum of 2 years undergraduate studies as a prerequisite to entering the program, the student will first earn a one year diploma which can sequence into the MACS program at ACTS.
Northwest Baptist Seminary curriculum is coupled with practical leadership development in the context of ministry.
CLTP’s experienced based training provides opportunity for the [...]
Posted on September 12th, 2007 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other tags: Cross • God • Jesus
Categories: Bible • Faith • Resurrection • Salvation • The Cross of Christ
Yesterday was the sixth anniversary of 9/11. Many media pieces featured some aspect or other of the tragedy. Some were retrospectives of the event itself. Others covered planned commemorations. I watched one that discussed the engineering implications of 9/11 for high rise building safety.
Among them, two reports in particular struck me. One was a radio [...]
Posted on September 7th, 2007 by Mr. Loren Warkentin
Other tags: Cross • God • Leaders • Leadership • Northwest • Seminary
Categories: Internet
We have added a new search routine to our site so that all of our online resources can be searched from a single search. It is a Google Custom Search and it will search our NBSeminary.com (main site) plus Dr. Larry Perkins’ Internet Moments With God’s Word plus Mark Naylor’s Cross-cultural Impact for the [...]
Posted on September 6th, 2007 by nav
Other tags: Cross • God • Leaders • Leadership • Seminary
Categories: _Uncategorized
You can use this page to search all of NBSeminary.com. This includes all Posts, Articles and sub-pages on NBSeminary.com as well as Internet Moments with God’s Word (moments.nbseminary.com), Cross-cultural Impact for the 21st Century (impact.nbseminary.com) and Leadership Issues .
The search will open a new Google search page
Posted on August 27th, 2007 by Mr. Loren Warkentin
Other tags: Bible • Church • Cross • God • Jesus • Ministry • Seminary • Translation
Categories: Godliness • Gospel • Grace
Have you ever been bemused by God’s way of doing things? I have, and in the end have stood in awe of His timing, patience, grace and goodness.
A number of years ago (in another world) I taught at a Bible college deep in the jungles of Kalimantan (formerly known as Borneo). For several years I [...]
Posted on August 9th, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Bible • Cross • Culture • God • Seminary
Categories: Hermeneutics • Missiology • Translation Issues
“That’s just NOT right!” exclaimed a woman in a Bible study I was conducting. The object of her disapproval was Naomi’s instructions for Ruth to approach Boaz while he was sleeping (see Ruth 3). She was correct in that she recognized the inappropriateness of such an action within our society. She was incorrect because she failed to recognize [...]
Posted on August 2nd, 2007 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other tags: Cross • God • Jesus • Theology
Categories: Bible Study • Conversion • Evangelism
Yesterday, August 1st at 6:05 pm, an extended section of the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota suddenly collapsed, sending dozens of vehicles, together with their drivers and passengers, plunging into the Mississippi River. The images yesterday were of emergency personnel and citizens on the scene scrambling amid the tons of twisted metal and broken concrete [...]
Posted on July 24th, 2007 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other tags: Cross • God • Gospel • Jesus • Missions • Old Testament
Categories: Bible Study • Church
Our house has been a-hum with guests most of this month. But as busy as we’ve been, the joy has been greater. Sitting around the crowded dinner table laden with good things this week, I’ve been reminded of how many times in the past my family and I have been the beneficiaries of God’s great [...]
Posted on July 23rd, 2007 by Dr. Larry Perkins
Other tags: Church • Cross • God • Gospel • Holy Spirit • Jesus • Leaders • Leadership • Marriage • Ministry • New Testament • Northwest • Old Testament • Prayer • Scripture • Seminary • Theology • Translation
Categories: _Uncategorized
The application of literary criticism to the Synoptic Gospels has stimulated many new readings of Mark’s[1] Gospel. In particular one application of rhetorical criticism[2] invites the interpreter to discern the various ways in which the author seeks to direct the implied reader to a specific conclusion. In the case of Mark’s Gospel attention has turned [...]
Posted on July 19th, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Bible • Cross • Culture • Discipleship • God • Jesus • Ministry • Prayer
Categories: Evangelism • Missiology
One of the primary responsibilities of the cross-cultural Christian worker is to discover how God’s revelation of himself in both the written word (the Bible) and the living Word (Jesus) resonates with the cultural group with whom she or he is developing a relationship. In our ministry among the Sindhi people, we discovered that [...]
Posted on July 18th, 2007 by Dr. Lyle Schrag
Other tags: Church • Cross • Ministry • Northwest • Seminary
Categories: _Uncategorized
TUITION FEES: For Academic Students
It is expected that students enrolling in The Diploma in Christian Ministry as Academic Students [for course credit] will do so with the blessing of their local church.
The Northwest Baptist Seminary has developed an arrangement with the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches to distribute the cost of tuition in [...]
Posted on June 28th, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Bible • Church • Cross • Culture • Ministry
Categories: Cultural Issues • Missiology
In The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community, and Small Groups (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003), Joseph R. Myers challenges evangelicals to think creatively about how people belong. He utilizes the work done by Edward Hall explaining that there are four “spaces†or levels of connecting in which people relate and commit: Public, Social, Personal [...]
Posted on June 27th, 2007 by Mr. Loren Warkentin
Other tags: Bible • Cross • God • Jesus • Ministry • Prayer • Scripture
Categories: Godliness
A friend e-mailed me a response to my June 18 article on the topic, “Godliness in Everyday Shoe Leather.†After describing the lives of Christian friends, family and acquaintances, with some of the accompanying struggles and issues that Christians can and do face, the following was the observation made and the question posed in the [...]
Posted on June 19th, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Cross • Culture • Marriage • Seminary
Categories: Cultural Issues • Missiology
What is the appropriate relationship of a Christian to a local church? How should followers of Christ “belong”? This is an important consideration when ministering cross-culturally, because cultural forms shape the way people understand “belonging”. For example, a helpful, if somewhat simplistic, diagram is provided to demonstrate three levels of relationships in which people experience [...]
Posted on June 8th, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Cross • God • Ministry • Missions • Northwest • Prayer • Seminary
Categories: _Uncategorized
The world of Christian missions as an expression of God’s mission to the world is constantly developing. Churches struggle to understand their role in this swiftly changing landscape. How can their efforts make a difference in cross-cultural ministry? How can priorities for support, prayer and participation be established? How can people be [...]
Posted on June 8th, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Bible • Cross • Culture • Gospel • Scripture • Theology
Categories: _Uncategorized
Mark completed his Master of Theology through the University of South Africa in 2004. About his thesis on Contextualized Bible Storying Mark writes:
"Chronological Bible storying is a method of presenting the gospel cross culturally and is especially effective among oral cultures. The weakness of the Chronological Bible storying method is that it generally assumes [...]