 Now you can experience the life-changing, paradigm-expanding teaching that has impacted thousands of Christians worldwide! Now on DVD is the entire Vision Conference as presented by Disciple Nations Alliance co-founders and master trainers, Bob Moffitt and Darrow L. Miller. These five DVD disks contain more than 20 hours of teaching designed to help Christians practice a wholistic, incarnational ministry in their own communities!
Newly Released!
Purchase your copy today!
|
Papers & Articles
The Haiti Disaster: The Need for a Cultural TransformationHow should the church respond in the aftermath of January 2010 earthquake that devastated much of Haiti? Darrow Miller argues that our response must be driven by a heart of compassion, but also a "hard-headed analysis" of the root problems. He offers a positive, hopeful path for church-based change in Haiti. |
Haiti-Disaster---Need-for-a-Cultural-Transformation.pdfThe Future of Evangelicals in MissionIn this seminal 2007 article, renowned missiologist Ralph Winter provides an insightful overview of 300 years of missions history, and argues that the evangelical Church worldwide is today, recovering the same comprehensive, transformational Kingdom theology that animated the British and U.S. churches during the Wesleyan revival in England and Great Awakening in the U.S.—a theology of Christian involvement in society that led to, among other things, the abolition of the British slave trade. |
The Rise, Reduction and Recovery of Kingdom Mission, 1800-2000An important revised and expanded edition of the late Ralph Winter's 2007 article, "The Future of Evangelicals in Mission." In this article, Winter looked back over 200 years of missions history and traced the decline and rebirth of the wholistic "Kingdom" mission championed by the Disciple Nations Alliance.
|
Transformation: Dream or RealityIn this article, Disciple Nations Alliance co-founder Bob Moffitt explores the concept of transformational ministry and the central role of the church in the healing of communities and nations. Published by Evangelical Missions Quarterly in 2006. |
Recovering a Vision for Kingdom TransformationScott Allen and Darrow Miller put forward a call for evangelical missions and Christian relief and development to reunite around a common vision for Kingdom Transformation. However to realize this vision, it will be necessary to recover and build upon the foundation of the Biblical worldview. This article was published in 2004 by the Association of Evangelical Relief and Development Agencies (AERDO). |
To Change the WorldJames Davidson Hunter, Professor of Sociology & Religious Studies, and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia examines some essential elements for cultural transformation. |
What is Wholistic Ministry?Wholistic ministry is a seamless combination of preaching, teaching and healing—substantial healing in every area where brokenness exists as a result of the Fall. |
The Power of an Undivided LifeIn this article, Scott Allen shows how the Biblical concept of wholism holds the power to free us from a debilitating mental dualism and enable us to enjoy embodied human life in all its wonder. It liberates us to explore vocational alternatives outside of “full time Christian service” and still know that we are both serving and glorifying God. As churches gain a wholistic perspective, they begin to infiltrate the culture, taking with them the power of God’s Word lived out in human flesh. |
Agriculture and the Kingdom of GodIn this paper, Darrow Miller lays out a Biblical theology for sustainable agriculture and creation care. Originally published in the 2003 book Biblical Holism and Agriculture: Cultivating our Roots, David J. Evans, Ronald J. Vos and Keith P. Wright, ed. (Published by William Carey Library) |
Culture: Where the Physical & Spiritual Converge"God made humankind to be culture makers, and it matters hugely what kind of culture we create. Whatever our vocation, whatever domain we are called to, as Christians our work is ultimately to create Kingdom culture--culture that reflects the nature and character of God." This paper is adapted from Darrow Miller's book on biblical theology and vocation, forthcoming from YWAM Publishing. |
The Local Church: Minimum vs. MaximumThe Disciple Nations Alliance equips the Church to transform the world, but what exactly is the Church? In this helpful article adapted from a 1981 sermon, John Piper, Pastor of Preaching at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota concisely answers this question by looking at seven "minimum" qualifications as well as the "maximum" vision that God has for His Bride. |
England Before and After WesleyIn this paper, Professor Donald Drew summarizes the monumental volume by J.W. Bready entitled England Before and After Wesley, published in 1939. It provides a detailed and inspiring case study of how God transformed an entire nation and culture through John Wesley and the revival that bears his name. Could God be working such a transformation thorugh the Church in our generation? |
Awakening the Cultural Dimension of the Great CommissionWe are living at a Kairos moment in Church history--a pivotal time where old paradigms are giving way and new ones are emerging. God is awakening within His Bride--the Church--a vision for comprehensive transformation, says Scott Allen in this paper that lays a historical context for the ministry of the Disciple Nations Alliance.
|
The Buses Will Wait: The Emergence and Rise of Neo-EvangelicalismIn this very helpful paper, Pastor Wayne Wager makes useful distinctions between Christian fundamentalists and their evangelical counterparts. He examines both the strengths and weaknesses of the New-Evangelical, identifying two major weakness compared with their earlier spiritual fathers. The Neo-Evangelicals were marked by anti-intellectualism and by a limited view of [w]holistic ministry, or engagement in social action. Wager concludes his paper with a call: "What I sense we need is faithfulness to those few core values that make evangelicals what they are. Living true to the teaching of Scripture, being obedient to Jesus Christ, a brave engagement with the world as it is, and a continuing to pray for the genuine conversion of people."*Note: This paper is a draft, not the final product. Stay tuned for the final edition of this paper. |
Worldview and Art: A Call for Balladeers"Where does the impulse for human creativity come from? What are the implications of this impulse for Christians who have a call to the arts, especially as it relates to the issue of culture and discipling a nation? Why is it that some people are born with music in their soul, dance in their legs, a poem on their lips, or hands longing for a canvas and brush or for the touch of clay? Where does human longing for beauty, goodness, and Truth come from? Does my worldview provide a basis for art and music?"These questions and more are addressed in Darrow L. Miller's article, Worldview and Arts: A Call for Balladeers. Miller explores the answers different worldviews give, and explains what the Biblical worldview says in answer to these questions. |
Reflections on the Global Economic CrisisDarrow L. Miller responds to the current economic crisis by examining its root causes and urging Christians to return to a biblical virtues of thrift, hard work, saving, and contentment as an anecdote to the current crisis. |
Music that Writes Culture: Reflections on "Joy to the World", the Messiah's Coming, & KingdomDarrow Miller challenges all of us to strategically influence culture with biblical principles through the avenues of art as he explores Isaac Watts' classic Christmas hymn and the profound worldview and theology that inspired it. |
The 21st Century Mission: Discipling NationsIn this January 1998 article, published by Evangelical Missions Quarterly, Darrow Miller explains that evangelism and discipleship, while essential, are just the beginning of the task. |
The Lordship of Christ over All of LifeThe first of our DNA Core Beliefs is the Lordship of Christ. As pastor Barry Seagren says in this powerful sermon, "This is one of those things that no [sincere Christian] can object to. No one believes in the Lordship of Christ over half of life. But it is not as straightforward as it may seem. Why not? Because in Western culture there is a dichotomy, a sharp division which has affected us deeply." |
Our Target, God's GloryToo often, our efforts at church planting and evangelism fail to bring about the transformation that we hope to see in communities. Nevertheless, Bob Moffitt encourages us with the biblical truth that transformation is possible and exhorts us to focus our efforts thoroughly on the obedience that results in God's glory. |