Mere Missions

INTRODUCTION

A church which is not deeply penetrated by the faith that the crucial center of all human history is what God has done, in and through Christ, will hardly undertake a sustained missionary effort, and its witness will never have the toughness and resiliency, the patience and the endurance without which missions cannot accomplish their task.

~ G. W. Peters, A Theology of Missions

For I see violence and strife in the city. Day and night they prowl about on its walls; malice and abuse are within it. Destructive forces are at work in the city; threats and lies never leave its streets. ~ Psalm 55.9-10 I understand these verses. I have seen the violence and strife in the city both day and night take place. Gang members shooting at each other during a Bible Club taking place on my front lawn; Being threatened when attending a black Muslim meeting at my local community center; hearing the gun shots and arriving first to see the lifeless body of a young pregnant girl slumped in the front seat of her car. Or what would cause a young teen to shave

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