With the current political climate in the USA, the topic of socialism is a hot-button issue on talk radio and cable news networks. If you are like me, you grew up on the heels of the Cold War. Communism was the enemy, and Reagan was the hero. As a missionary all things change. Chile is [...]
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Socialism and Communism on the Mission Field
December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Missionary thoughts
Tags:culture adaptation·foreign politics
Get trained!
November 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Missionary thoughts
A recent comment by Justin Long on the “Multiply, don’t add 2” post got me thinking about the obstacles of world evangelization. He mentioned some of the traditional barriers we face as missionaries – geographic, linguistic, and cultural barriers, as well as restricted access in “closed” countries. Although all of these obstacles are real, they [...]
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Multiply, don’t add – part 2
November 16th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Missionary thoughts
I couldn’t wait until tomorrow. So, here’s part 2. From the title you probably already know where I’m going with this. In multiply, don’t add part 1, we looked at the typical missionary model. Following this model, it will take forever to reach the goal, require thousands of missionaries, and literally millions of support dollars! [...]
Tags:reaching the world
Multiply, don’t add
November 16th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Missionary thoughts
A couple of post ago I wrote about incredible numbers. Using the raw numbers, you can see the mammoth task we have as missionaries to reach a country with the gospel. So, how can we do this? We often speak of literally reaching the world with the gospel, but do we believe in it? Let’s [...]