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Since the days of Abraham, God has been calling men to leave their familiar surroundings, their place of belonging, to move out into the unknown, to a new place.

One of the phenomena of our day is that, alongside a spirit of renewal and change that is sweeping through the Muslim world, there is a parallel resurgence of interest in the church in getting involved in the task of evangelizing the Muslim world.

Missiologists, theologians, Christian education directors and church administrators continually face new issues. The latest issue is contextualization.

Guru: Young man, if God wants to mature an indigenous church, he’ll do it without your help or mine. You must get on with the task of being a true missionary. Repent of your truncated church development syndrome.

If there’s anything we want to be sure about in missions, it’s the biblical validity of our work. Yet as one surveys the scene, it is apparent that the biblical underpinnings are not all that solid.

Many have sought to discover through Paul “God’s methodology for missions.”

For a host of eminent leaders from all over the world, Berlin both portrayed and provided a new dimension of truly international missionary concern.

During the past decade the place of the church in missionary outreach has come into prominence through discussions on church/missions relations.

Because multiple life-roles demand our time as missionaries, it is imperative that we give proper attention to our role as a family person. It is a role we live from birth to death, yet it can still be a “walk-through.”

In this article I stress the great importance of making disciples in relation to the missionary task.