Travis and Jeremy pondering which ‘Cream of…’ soup to buy at H-E-B.

From “Beyond Bosch: The Early Church and the Christendom Shift” by Alan Kreider
Printed in the International Bulletin of Missionary Research Vol. 29, No. 2, April 2005 p. 59-64

Yes, it has been a few months since the last e-mail. So let’s briefly catch up. Most of you knew I spent the summer in ‘East Asia’ aka China. In a sentence, we learned how to live out the book of Acts. As for present things, we’ve now all moved in to the house. This ‘we’ being Joe, Nathan, Cal,…

One of the hardest parts of Jesus’ life for me to grasp is His perfect, endless, tender mercy for all people. In the Gospel of Matthew, this theme of mercy is very prevalent. Two times Jesus quotes Hosea 6:6,
For I desire mercy and not sacrifice,
And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. (see Mt 9:13 and 12:7)…

Should all Western missionaries pull out of Asia forever? Of course not. God still sovereignly calls Western missionaries to do unique and special tasks in Asia. But we must understand that when it comes to in which Western missionaries are no longer able to do church planting as past eras allowed, the priority must then be to support efforts of…