One of the great Christian missions books in the last couple of hundred years is Roland Allen's work, "Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours? A Study of the Church in the Four Provinces." It is a wonderful commentary on colonial-style missions, and contrasting it with missions carried out by St. Paul in the book of …
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<The following is an extended quote from Missions in Samaria by Robert H. MunsonMM-Musings 2020. https://www.amazon.com/Missions-Samaria-Robert-Munson/dp/B087CRN2TG> According to Acts chapter 8, Saul (aka Paul) went around Jerusalem house to house seeking out Christians and dragging them off to jail. So Christians began to scatter and tell others about Christ as they scattered. Persecution is NOT …
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"Translation of the message started from the very beginning of the church. The Pentecost event more than simply demonstrated the movement of the Holy Spirit, and the inauguration of the church. The sign occurred in Jerusalem on a day when the relatively monocultural city would be the most diverse. The sign itself was a gift …
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When we speak of the Biblical basis for Christian Missions, a lot of time is placed on the Great Commissions. Shortly before the ascension of Jesus, He spoke to His disciples. Actually, the different Gospel accounts not only give different versions of such a "commissioning" but there seems to be a difference in the setting …
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"While I have heard the argument made that Jesus considered himself to be a Jewish prophet called to reform Judaism and never saw himself as having any cross-cultural or international purpose, it seems clear that Jesus was internationalizing the movement from the start. He saw himself as inaugurating the Kingdom of God—a movement not tied …
We just passed Christmas 2024 and I felt like trying something new. I decided I want to work through Christian Missions History and share my thoughts. I have shared CMH thoughts before. But this time I thought I would try to do it in historical order. Some will be quotes of what I have written …
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For the first 7 years of my life I could not swim. That wasn't really a problem because I was never really at a place where swimming was needed. One time, however, when I was six years old, I was with my family visiting their friends in Connecticut. We went to a lake to go …
We got our paper copies of our journal now at Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary. They are (I believe) ready for purchase if anyone is interested. The charge is P350. This does not include shipping cost and I am not sure whether we are going to be shipping. For more info contact me at robert.munson@pbts.edu.ph
I have written in the past how Christmas is okay, despite the yearly posts on FB and other places about how it is "pagan" or something. (I have written numerous posts on Christmas. Here is one of many: https://munsonmissions.org/2018/12/17/some-kind-of-ironic-great-things-about-christmas/) I have also written reasons why other holidays that have "pagan connections" may not necessarily be …
Years ago my mom had a friend who had been a missionary with a major missions agency; but back then retirement was not deemed a big concern. She went into missions as a single person. She eventually met a guy who was also a missionary, and they got married but too late to have children. …