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Power-Restrained Missions and the Temptations of Christ

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I have sought to promote "Powerless" Missions. While this sounds strange to some people, it is not far from mainstream missions. Vulnerable Missions is a movement that is popularized and missiologists and missional theologians commonly promote an avoidance of missionaries utilizing money or authority to control and manipulate. But I also get the problem. The …

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Four “L”s from Missions History

On By missionmusingsIn History in Missions, Mission Theology2 Comments

Successful missionaries, mission programs, and mission movements in Christian history seem to have four characteristics. They don't always have all three, there is a priority to them. Now some that have been numerically successful (such as the invasion and subsequent colonization and "Christianization" of South America) fail to meet the criteria of sound Christian missions, …

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