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Stop Sending Missionaries: Why More Isn’t Always Better

Jim Mon, 12/21/15 8:30 pm
Church & Ministry
Missionaries

“To be sure, the workers are few, and the harvest is great. But that does not mean that more workers are necessarily better. It seems that the impatience that so marks the current generation has infiltrated the missionary movement under the guise of ‘urgency.’ This impatience, rather than being curbed by church leaders, is often fostered and even encouraged.”

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