Missionary Motivations: Challenges from the Early Church Burden Matt
Missionary Motivations: Challenges from the Early Church Burden Matt Radical Pursuit of a Christlike Life among the NationsBeginning as an obscure sect in a backwater province of the Roman Empire,…
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Missionary Motivations: Challenges from the Early Church Burden Matt
Radical Pursuit of a Christlike Life among the NationsBeginning as an obscure sect in a backwater province of the Roman Empire, the Christian faith radiated out in all directions. Where some might think the motivations would be the Great Commission or expressions of concern for non-Christians, which are common today, the early church's mission was profoundly Christocentric. What drove this expansion?
Just as the prophets had foretold, the Messianic king had come, and now, reigning at the Father's right hand, he was drawing all nations to himself.Missionary Motivations is the story of early Christianity's startling expansion. The focus was exalting the reign of Christ and the pursuit of holiness. From monks to pilgrims to prisoners, early Christian missionaries filled the earth with their message through the humblest of