Five Stones Global Articles
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The "Thinning" Revisited: Dependency and Church Planting in Cambodia
Jean JohnsonJune 1, 2010 -
The Best Way to Plant Indigenous Churches is to Begin That Way
Jean JohnsonSeptember 1, 2016 -
"They Did Business With You Because of Your Great Wealth of Goods"
Jean JohnsonJuly 1, 2016 -
Could Inspiring More "We Did It" Stories Help Break The Dependency Mindset?
Dan CarlJuly 31, 2014 -
Three Things of Importance: Spiritual Renewal, Restructuring, Imagination
Glenn Schwartz
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Social Justice 3 – Is Integral Mission as Integral as We Want? Is Social Justice as Just as We Think?
By Jean Johnson, Director of Five Stones Global The Lausanne Movement describes integral mission as a style of mission that recognizes “no biblical dichotomy between evangelistic and social responsibility.” Putting this concept into the form of an action statement, we might say that integral mission is “integrating the proclamation of the gospel and social action.” […]
Social Justice 2 – How Does Spiritual Justice Play Out?
By Jean Johnson In my last post, we visited God’s heart for social justice by listening in on a conversation between a child and a parent. Additionally, we visited Isaiah 1:17, which is a clear invitation to correct oppression, bring justice to the fatherless, and plead the cause of widows. In certain periods of the […]
Social Justice 1: God Designed Social Justice – Don’t You Dare Hit Her!
By Jean Johnson I was driving down a popular boulevard in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In a grassy area along the boulevard, I saw a man lift up his iron rod that served as a cane to strike a woman over her head. Without thinking, I slammed on my brakes, jumped out of my vehicle, and […]
Habitude 7: Value the Soul Music; Avoid Music Colonialism
My dog howled every time I hit a certain note on my bamboo flute. He would lift up his head and cry as if he were calling upon a sweetheart in another village. I am not musically inclined in any form or fashion, but it was about time I learned more about Cambodian music […]
Habitude 6: Overcome the Spitting Dragon Who Wants to Send You Home
DAY 1 Affects DAY 100: Habitudes* Habitude 6: Overcome the Spitting Dragon Who Wants to Send You Home By Jean JohsnonWhen serving in Cambodia as a vocational missionary, I saw many missionaries come and go. I used to call Cambodia “the spitting dragon,” because it chewed people up and spit them out. In the early […]
What We Can Learn from a Mizo Missionary Sent to Cambodia
Written by Sairengpuia Sailo When in Cambodia, I (Jean Johnson) had the opportunity to meet and interact with Sairengpuia Sailo. He was a missionary sent out from Mizoram, Northeast India as a missionary to Cambodia. Mizoram is known for their locally sustainable and self-supporting churches. So what would it be like to be sent out from […]