The rope can either represent the connection between the missionary and his/her support network. OR The rope can represent the coming together of such support. #1 The Baptist Missionary Society in London on October 2, 1792 included people such as William Carey, Andrew Fuller, John Ryland and more. Carey expressed willingness to go to India …
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I love teaching Missions. As a missions professor, I don't have to be an expert in Biblical Studies. I don't have to be an expert in Theology. That's a shame since Missions should have strong Biblical and Theological underpinnings. Still, it is a bit freeing that expectations of others is low in these areas. Additionally, …
Suppose I needed to contact people but I had no load on my phone. It's a problem because it is an emergency. Perhaps someone would come by and share a load with me, or give me money to get a phone card. I would be grateful but now I am in debt. So I offer …
I will be teaching a two-week module on "Missionary Member Care" starting next week. So I decided to provide an excerpt from “William Carey: Missionary Pioneer and Statesman” by F. Deaville Walker pg. 125-129. It is a fairly old book, published in 1925. This passage describes some of the many challenges, externally and internally, that …
In the late 1700s in England, Baptist churches were generally “Particular.” “Particular” meant Calvinist... focusing great import on the doctrine of divine sovereignty, and minimizing or even denying human freedom of will. There were “General” (Freewill) Baptists since the beginning of the Baptist Movement in the early 1600s but during the late 1700s they had …
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