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You Can’t Love Missions without Loving the Local Church

TylerR Wed, 04/19/17 8:30 pm
Church & Ministry
Missions
Local Church

9Marks: When people perceive missions and the local church as two wholly distinct and therefore mutually exclusive Christian lifestyles, we don’t just lose quality people who would have made great missionaries; we build churches who believe that missions is something “those people” out there do, not us.

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