My wife and I were able to join the EMS 2026 Southeast Regional Conference, April 11, 2026. It was held at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC. Like last year (the only other one I have so far attended). it was really a lot of information jammed into too little time. Nevertheless, it …
Category: Mission Theology
Trying to Align Current Events with Prophecy was Bad Enough, BUT…
I used to be very involved in End Times prophecy. I suppose this depends on how you use the word "Very." I certainly read a lot and listened a lot back in my college days (40 years ago). Back then Hal Lindsey and Jack Van Impe were all over the place. This was before the …
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Defining Christian Missions… Again
I was looking at an old post of mine from 2011 (Missions: A Self-Reflection – Missional Thoughts and Theology). I saw there some comments I had written on defining missions, and I really liked them. I am not sure I would use them to replace some other definitions I have come up with (such as …
Were There Evangelists in the Early Church?
So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. -Ephesians 4:11-13 This …
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When is the Great Commission “Finished”?
Since the late 1800s, it has been common in Christian mission circles to have slogans or rallying cries around "finishing the task" or "fulfilling the Great Commission." Whether it be "this generation" or "2000 AD" I have never liked the slogans. For one, they have often been used to promote one-sided missions (evangelism rather than …
Reading Revelation Differently and It’s Impact on Missiology— Part 2.
So in the previous post I gave reasons for why I moved from a position of Dispensational Premillennialism (DP) to something else. Now I want to speak about how such a change may have a positive role in missiology. But first, you may ask what my view is. If I sort of reject DP, then …
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Reading Revelation Differently and It’s Impact on Missiology— Part 1.
I went to a Christian college back in the 1980s. At that school, Hal Lindsay was all the rage. He promoted a certain type of understanding of the future, and particularly a way of reading he Book of Revelation in the Bible. I knew this understanding as "PreTrib PreMill" but the more formal encapsulating term …
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My “Best” Posts Over the Years
I decided to embrace a bit of curiosity and figure out what posts of mine were the most popular (best?) for each year this website has been in existence. It just hit 15 years. In terms of calendar years, then, I have posts from 2010 to 2025 2025Inculturation, Enculturation, Acculturation, and Morehttps://munsonmissions.org/2025/02/06/inculturation-enculturation-and-acculturation/2024Sermon: “Every Christian is …
Christian Missions and the Three Flaws of Thanos
Before I start talking about missions and its awkward relationship to Thanos, I must clarify that I am speaking of "Movie-Thanos." Others have noted this, but Thanos in comics was very different. I used to collect comic books, and one series I collected was "Captain Marvel." This was the Captain Marvel of the 1960s Marvel …
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Five Marks of Mission
I began teaching "Foundations of Holistic Missions" at Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary. It is a class I enjoy, and I think it is useful for any Christian seeking to serve God in the world--- not just for Mission Students. As I was prepping for the class, I reviewed the Five Marks of Mission that was …