Contributors Guidelines

Well-written articles are welcome from a wide variety of evangelical, charismatic
and Pentecostal perspectives providing they fit within our aims and beliefs and are written with an interdenominational flavor and in a spirit of Christian unity. Articles should be:

Biblically based and demonstrate a respect for the Scriptures.

Have a relevant ministry focus of some sort.

Clear, concise, well-written and between 800 to 5000 words.

In MS-Word, HTML or Text format.

There are four levels we are trying to minister on, each with its own style of writing and instruction. Your article should fit into one of these four categories and its target audience. The four levels are:

Wisdom for Living
The sort of training given in the book of Proverbs, marriage and family material, encouragement to godliness. Specific help with life problems such as budgeting, finances, work and career, conflict , friendship, personal boundaries etc. The target audience here includes overseas foreign workers, and Christian leaders in business, government, academic and cultural life. Contributors at this level should be mature Christians preferably with some professional qualifications (such as psychology) in the area concerned.

Bible and Theological Training:
Similar to conventional bible colleges – OT and NT overviews, eschatology, theology, apologetics, etc. The target audience are new pastors, deacons, elders, missionaries and those seeking bible and theological knowledge to equip them in ministry. Contributors at this level should have done some formal theological training.

Specific Ministry Skills:
Such as “Children’s Ministry” or “How To Share The Gospel With Buddhists”. Training in a specific area of ministry for people who are already practitioners or wish to take up that area of ministry. Should be solidly biblically based while imparting the necessary practical skills and knowledge. Contributors at this level should have considerable experience in the area of ministry they are training others in.

Ministry Formation:
For those who have been in ministry for a while and who need a forum to reflect on their theology and practice and to develop a deeper knowledge of God, themselves and their ministry. Contributors at this level should possess post-graduate qualifications and have at least ten to fifteen years experience in ministry and generally be in mid-life or older.

Global Christians.Org is not able to financially remunerate contributors.
Authors will retain copyright and all intellectual property rights over the course material that they personally produce. However they will give GlobalChristians.Org written permission to use it for free during the time the course is being run through GlobalChristians.Org. They shall allow GlobalChristians.Org to put the material online and in ebook format for students to download. Contributors may tactfully mention their seminars, books, training materials, church, mission or NGO as long as they do not go over the line into blatant salesmanship. Contributors should not ask for money or aggressively promote a particular ministry.

You are encouraged to write well and creatively and to produce clear, useful and practical articles that will help pastors, missionaries and Christian leaders in Asia . GlobalChristians.Org aims to be both biblical and useful. Articles that serve this aim will be well received. Articles should be sent to the Executive Director or relevant sub-editor first. Material designed to fit into a particular GlobalChristians.Org course should be approved by the senior lecturer for the course first.

Contributors shall refrain from direct criticism of persons or ministries even if they strongly disagree with them. It is fine to criticize the practice but not the person or organization. For instance its Ok to say: “Strong emotional evangelistic appeals in crusades aimed at young children are an inappropriate and manipulative form of children’s ministry” as long as you do not say “Organization X led by Miss Y is doing it all wrong”. Students need to know the right and wrong approaches to ministry but they do not need to learn how to label and criticize other ministries.

Divisive and extreme views of any kind are unwelcome, these include non-Trinitarian views, baptism for salvation, speaking in tongues for salvation, keeping the Sabbath for salvation, extreme prosperity teaching, extreme legalism such as condemning all make-up, liberal theology, liberation theology, occult practices and beliefs, hyper-faith, requiring Christians to keep Jewish laws and festivals, and syncretism with pagan cultures and practices. If you are in doubt about an aspect of your teaching please check in either Millard Erickson’s Christian Theology or Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology - these are well known and trusted standard theologies.

Still interested? Well, we are keen to have your work online so just send me an email right now!

Blessings in Christ Jesus,

John Edmiston

Executive Director Global Christians.org

This article may be freely reproduced for non-profit ministry purposes but may not be sold in any way. For permission to use articles in your ministry, e-mail the editor, John Edmiston at johned@aibi.ph.