|  | Title: "My Hope Thailand" Evangelistic Project
Description: A critical assessment of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's "My Hope" evangelistic campaign in Thailand
Subject: Evangelism
Type: Article
Year Published: 2010
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| | Title: A Brief Survey of Thai Bible Translations
Description: A survey of the available Thai Bible translations and an evaluation of their relative merits
Subject: Bible
Type: Article
Year Published: 2009
Pages: 4 Filesize:
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| | Title: A Chick Tract Contextualized for Thailand?
Description: In the Chick tract, “The Tycoon,” (read here), a wealthy Thai Buddhist businessman is commended for his large donations to the temple. Periodically through his life, Christians try to tell him the Gospel but don’t get very far because they are quickly ejected from his presence, or he himself ridicules them. He dies in a car wreck and is condemned before God’s judgment throne. Is this tract contextualized well for Thai Buddhists?
Subject: Evangelism
Type: Article
Year Published: 2012
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| | Title: Animism and the Prosperity Gospel
Description: Some reflections on how animism may be influencing Thai Christians towards an interest in the prosperity gospel
Subject: Syncretism
Type: Article
Year Published: 2009
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| | Title: Finding the Real Reason Thai People Become “Christians”
Description: When new believers disappear from church and seemingly give up the Christian faith, it is often a disillusioning and discouraging time for those who introduced them to the Gospel, and perhaps even led them in saying the sinnerʼs prayer together. Great expectations and high hopes are dashed. Why do people seem to come in and come out of the faith so easily? The author reflects on some observations on conversion from Thai pastor Wan Petchsongkram
Subject: Evangelism; Syncretism
Type: Article
Year Published: 2009
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| | Title: How do You Say “Godliness” in Thai? (2 Peter 1:3)
Description: A difference in Bible translations causes the author to question the best way to express the biblical idea of "godliness" in the Thai language
Subject: Bible
Type: Article
Year Published: 2009
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| | Title: Illustrating the Gospel from Thai History
Description: Because the concept of substitution is largely absent from Buddhist thinking, there are a couple of illustrations from Thai history that I will often use to explain to people how Jesus could die on the cross, not for his own sin (which he didnʼt have) but in order to save others. I take no credit discovering or coming up with either example, but I have found them useful and hope that anyone else doing evangelism among Buddhists, particularly Thai Buddhists, might find them useful.
Subject: Contextualization; Evangelism
Type: Article
Year Published: 2009
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| | Title: Syncretistic Use of the Sinner’s Prayer in Thailand
Description: Leftover baggage from an animistic worldview and a superficial reading of Romans 10:13 contribute to a magical view of the effectiveness of getting someone to say the sinner's prayer in Thailand
Subject: Evangelism; Syncretism
Type: Article
Year Published: 2010
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| | Title: Talking About the Resurrection with a Thai Chinese Buddhist
Description: A conversation with a Thai Chinese man highlights the centrality of Christ's resurrection in Christian faith and proclamation
Subject: Evangelism
Type: Article
Year Published: 2010
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| | Title: Thai Christian Books (or the lack thereof)
Description: A visit to a seminary and a Christian book publisher in Bangkok reveals the startling lack of resources available for the Thai church
Subject: Discipleship
Type: Article
Year Published: 2009
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| | Title: Thai Church Denominations
Description: A brief overview of the various church denominations that exist in Thailand
Subject: Church History
Type: Article
Year Published: 2009
Pages: 1 Filesize:
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| | Title: The Buddhas Footprint
Description: The author finally finds an answer to the question of why the Buddha's footprint at a local temple is four feet long when the Buddha himself was a man of normal proportions
Subject: Buddhism
Type: Article
Year Published: 2008
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| | Title: The Peculiar Conversion of Nan Inta
Description: One of the most unique and peculiar accounts that I have encountered is the story of Nān Inta, the first convert in the ministry of Daniel McGilvary. Regarded widely as the Father of the Church in Northern Thailand, McGilvary gives an account in his autobiograph
Subject: Church History | 1800-1900
Type: Article
Year Published: 2010
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| | Title: The Playboy Bunny and Contextualization
Description: The use of the Playboy bunny symbol in Thai fashion illustrates the challenge of deciding the meaning of certain cultural items in the process of contextualization
Subject: Contextualization; Culture
Type: Article
Year Published: 2009
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| | Title: The Sinners Prayer in Thai Churches
Description: Every year there are hundreds, if not thousands, of Thai people who pray to receive Christ but never become involved in a church. Is it possible that the sinnerʼs prayer, which is supposed to signal conversion to the Christian faith, actually fails to challenge the animistic worldview of Thai people? What if instead of helping them find new life in Christ, it confirms them in their basically animistic worldview, but merely adds a temporary Christian veneer on the top of their existing beliefs?
Subject: Evangelism
Type: Article
Year Published: 2009
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| | Title: Theological Education in Thailand: An Interview with Daniel Kim
Description: An interview with Daniel Kim, director of Chiang Mai Theological Seminary, about the needs and challenges of theological education in Thailand
Subject: Discipleship; Leadership
Type: Article
Year Published: 2011
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| | Title: “You Can Be a Christian, but You Can’t Get Baptized”
Description: The signficance of ceremony in Thailand is applied to the speed and requirements for baptism in Thai churches
Subject: Evangelism; Discipleship; Church Planting
Type: Article
Year Published: 2011
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| | Title: A New Hope for Understanding: Adapting the Buddhist Paradigm of Merit Transference to Explain the Substitutionary Sacrifice of Christ
Description: This paper aims to examine the implications, benefits, and challenges of using the Buddhist concept of merit transference to explain the redemptive work of Christ to those with a karmic worldview, with particular attention to the Theravada Buddhist context. The first part of the paper will examine the nature of karma, merit, and merit transference as they exist in the minds of Buddhists, particularly Theravada Buddhists. The second part of the paper will deal with adapting the merit transference paradigm to explain the cross of Christ, followed by an analysis of the potentially positive and negative consequences of presenting the Gospel in this way.
Subject: Contextualization; Evangelism
Type: Research Paper
Year Published: 2003
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| | Title: Animism, Syncretism, and Christianity in Thailand
Description: To gain a better understanding of the forces at work in shaping Christianity in the global South, the following study will look at the nature of animism and syncretism in general, and then focus in upon Christianity in Thailand as a case study of the effect of animism upon Christian belief and practice in the global South. 8 We will then look at examples of efforts being made by both missionaries and Thai Christians to move beyond syncretism. Our study will conclude with some recommendations for further work.
Subject: Syncretism; Contextualization
Type: Research Paper
Year Published: 2011
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| | Title: The Life and Ministry of Daniel McGilvary: Missionary Pioneer to Northern Thailand
Description: A research paper summarizing the life and ministry of American Presbyterian missionary Daniel McGilvary, who pioneered the church in Northern Thailand
Subject: Church History | 1800-1900; Biography
Type: Research Paper
Year Published: 2002
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| | Link: Gleanings from the Field
Description: Missionary blog site addressing issues in evangelism, theology, church, Thai culture, life and ministry in Thailand... from a Reformed perspective
Subject: Missionaries
Type: Website
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