Misadventures in Missions
Judd Birdsall Wednesday, 1 March 2006
David A. Livermore, Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-term Missions with Cultural Intelligence (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2006). 188 pp. $12.99.
The democratizing impulse in American Christianity has extended to its missionary enterprise. The "mission field," once the nearly exclusive domain of elite seminary-trained theologians who dedicated their entire careers to advancing the gospel cross-culturally, is now accessible to anyone who can raise the funds to purchase a plane ticket. In the eyes of many evangelicals, foreign mission is no longer a life-long calling but a one-week adventure.
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