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“Christianity is the only world religion whose primary source documents are in a language other than the language of the founder of the religion. This is unheard of among world religions. Muhammad spoke Arabic, and the Qur'an is in Arabic; the Brahmin priests in India spoke Sanskrit, and the Upanishads are in Sanskrit. Jesus spoke Aramaic, and yet the primary documents that record Christ's teachings are not in Aramaic but in Koine Greek, the language of Gentile Hellenism.”
― Invitation to World Missions: A Trinitarian Missiology for the Twenty-first Century
― Invitation to World Missions: A Trinitarian Missiology for the Twenty-first Century
“The first Baptist missionary (and the first missionary from the United States) was the African-American George Liele, the Baptist pastor of the first African Church of Savannah, who was able to purchase his own freedom and then went to Kingston, Jamaica, in 1783 as a missionary to African slaves. By the time Carey left for India, Liele already had planted the African Baptist Church of Kingston with more than five hundred”
― Invitation to World Missions: A Trinitarian Missiology for the Twenty-first Century
― Invitation to World Missions: A Trinitarian Missiology for the Twenty-first Century
“Theologically, this commitment to full mobilization was possible only because of the Moravian ecclesiology, which emphasized the central role of the laity, downplayed denominational affiliation, and refused to associate the church with the state, as was the common practice in Europe at that time.”
― Invitation to World Missions: A Trinitarian Missiology for the Twenty-first Century
― Invitation to World Missions: A Trinitarian Missiology for the Twenty-first Century
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