Weāve all experienced the guilt of being made to feel like weāre not doing enough for world missions. Should preachers emphasize statistics on unreached people groups, the urgency of eternity, and lostness, or simply trust the Holy Spiritāor perhaps both? This week, ABWE President Paul Davis chats with Scott and Alex as they wrestle throughContinue reading “Is the Missions āGuilt Tripā Biblical? Guest: Paul Davis”
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Where Did the Gritty Missionaries Go? David Joannes on Missionary Motivations
C.T. Studd is credited with saying, āSome want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell.ā But in todayās world where everyone is encouraged to ālive on mission,ā this classic missionary grit is increasingly absent. What happened, and what are the internal and external motivators that lead someone to risk everything to serve abroad? To answer that question, we invited missionary, author, and researcher David Joannes.