Avant’s Shanna DiPaola, a fellow Moody grad interviewed my dad on his book. You can read about it here. I’m even mentioned at the end.
One sample:
avant: The book suggests that a team can create a sense of urgency by limiting the time they’re in a certain field. They have five years, and at the end of that time they should have a church that is able to sustain itself. How is this fundamental to Short-Cycle?
Nyquist: There are two elements that legitimately create urgency in missions work. One is the immanency of Christ’s return. It is reality, it’s biblical, and it creates its own sense of urgency that we tend to ignore. The second is the unraveling political scene. In many of the most unreached countries the political climate is extremely unstable, presenting short windows of opportunity. Those two elements create urgency. We can choose to ignore them. But if we do, we severely limit our effectiveness.
By limiting the teams to five years, we’re trying to create the same sense of urgency that is dictated by those realities. It is an artificial deadline but it forces them to think intentionally and strategically about every day, knowing that time will pass quickly and they have a job to get done.
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