Mere Missions

FOREWORD

As one who counts it a great honor to be Bob’s colleague and friend, I believe him to be one of the foremost global missions leaders in the Church of Jesus today. I am convinced that after carefully reading and engaging his reflections on missions in this book you will agree with my assessment. Why? I could easily offer several tangible reasons to support this claim. First, Bob has served in various roles of missionary responsibility for nearly forty years, evangelizing and discipling in some of the most difficult communities of poverty in America. Also, he has planted churches in the city which grew to become healthy and effective outposts of kingdom display in tough, neglected neighborhoods. And, besides this, Bob has mentored, coached, trained, and released dozens of church planters and coaches called to plant healthy churches in communities of poverty, here in America and around the world. Truly, I cannot think of another single individual so well respected by the finest of the Lord’s apostolic leaders around the world as Bob. His experience, humility, strategic passion, and burden for Christ and his Kingdom is compelling and evident, from the first moment you encounter him. In the language of the street, Bob is legit!

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