In our Mission Research class it came up a second time. Should there be missionaries serving here in the Philippines? After all, if over 90% of Filipinos self-identify as Christians, are they needed? If one identifies missionaries in terms of the Biblical role of apostle-- evangelist and churchplanter-- they are unnecessary in much of the …
II. A Missionary is one involved in cross-cultural work. I mentioned three traditional understandings of missionary... One is that of being called, a second is that of being cross-cultural, and a third is that of being professional or full-time. Dave Mays has a good article that addresses the issue of being cross-cultural. He compares his …