Much like there have been times in church history where people have embraced the idea of "holy language" (Hebrew, Koine Greek, Latin, Middle English) there have been periods of time and places where a similar sanctification has been placed on culture. The Jerusalem Council struggled with this during the first century. Does a Greek have …
Tag: Didache
Missionary Member Care, and the Didache
Been teaching a class on Missionary Member Care. I have enjoyed it--- I make no promise that my 12 students share that opinion. After the student group presentation of Missionary Member Care in the light of the Carey Mission (especially as it relates to William Carey, John Thomas, Dorothy Carey, and Felix Carey), we had …
But I’m Called!!
While this might surprise many, there are a lot of people who want to go into missions. Perhaps they want to because they want "adventure" (whatever that is). Some want to because it is an escape from the stress and drudgery of what they are presently doing ("maybe in a foreign place, people won't know …
Missionaries or Apostles? (Part 2)
(See Part 1 first) ... A church-based model for missionaries and missions appears to avoid a lot of confusion in other ways as well. If missionaries are those who leave the local church to work outside the local church, then they are simply “apostles”... and “apostle” is simply another term for missionary. This of …
Missionaries or Apostles? (Part I)
Good scholarship of the term “apostolos” shows that the term appears to best fit what we now call missionaries. It should not be thought of as strictly a position of the distant past. However, it also should not be viewed as a church office in any period of time, as the term is now used …