"We are sent . . . not to preach sociology but salvation; not economics but evangelism; not reform but redemption; not culture but conversion; not progress but pardon; not the new social order but the new birth; not revolution but regeneration; not renovation but revival; not resuscitation but resurrection; not a new organization but a new creation; not a democracy but the Gospel; not civilization but Christ. We are ambassadors not diplomats."
-Hugh Thomson Kerr.
Hey, this is a first-rate quote. Too bad more modern missionaries' work isn't in agreement with Kerr's analysis of what fulfilling the Great Commission should look like. Half of what passes for "missions" these days wouldn't even be recognized as such by the apostle Paul!
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