This series of pages are thoughts and reflec­tions by an active mis­sion­ary and pas­tor about mis­sions and churches in rela­tion­ship to our cur­rent state of Chris­tian­ity. Things just are not right with our churches and mis­sions pro­grams, and some­one needs to call atten­tion to these prob­lems, and to pro­voke reflec­tion upon them. A mis­sion­ary is the last per­son who would nor­mally do this, so I am “stick­ing my neck out”, and tak­ing the risk of being the one who says, “the emperor has no clothes.”

I am a “tra­di­tional” mis­sion­ary in the sense that I went to a nor­mal Bible Uni­ver­sity, stud­ied the major of mis­sions, joined a mis­sion board, and went to the field. I have since left that mis­sion board and am now under a local church, con­tin­u­ing to do the work of missions.

These med­i­ta­tions are some of my frus­tra­tions and reflec­tions on the cur­rent state of affairs, with some of the con­clu­sions I per­son­ally have come to. My desire is not to con­demn every­body else (although if they are not fol­low­ing the Bible, what else are we as obe­di­ent Chris­tians to do?) but rather to pro­voke thought so that true and obe­di­ent Chris­tians will change their lives and min­istries to con­form them­selves to God’s word on the matter.

Pastor-Missionary
David Cox
Mex­ico City, Mexico

What bib­li­cally is “a mis­sion­ary”? Sept 30, 2010