I have been teaching Missions History this term... one of my favorite subjects, although I am not sure whether I do a good job with it. It is hard to make history "come alive." But had a couple of interesting insights that came from the class... particularly from comments made by the students. There …
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Some notes from Stephen Neill's book, "A History of Christian Missions," regarding early missions: A. Neill speaks of three things that occurred in the first century that radically affected the expansion of the church. 1. The first was the realization the Jesus was not going to return quickly. After a fairly frenzied attempt to evangelize …
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