The Bible and Foreign Missions

Every book in the New Testament was written by a foreign missionary. Every epistle in the New Testament that was written to a church was written to a foreign missionary church. Every letter in the New Testament that was written to an individual was written to the convert of a foreign missionary. Every book in the New Testament that was written to a community of be- lievers was written to a general group of foreign missionary churches.

The one book of prophecy in the New Testament was written to the seven foreign missionary churches in Asia. The only authoritative history of the early Christian church is a foreign mis- sionary journal. The disciples were called Christians first in a foreign missionary community. The language of the books of the New Testament is the missionary language.

The map of the early Christian world is the tracings of the missionary journals of the apostles. The problems which arose in the early church were largely questions of mis- sionary procedure. Of the twelve apostles chosen by Jesus every apostle except one became a missionary. That one became a traitor.

Only a foreign missionary could write an everlasting gospel. According to the apostles the missionary is the highest expression of the Christian life.