Revolution In World Missions

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An important, challenging, convicting, and sobering read if only gaining a perspective of our affluence vs the third world, on India and those with... (show more)

An important, challenging, convicting, and sobering read if only gaining a perspective of our affluence vs the third world, on India and those without Christ in Asia, and to keep our pride in check. If you are traveling to or plan to minister to mainland Asians and Asia (especially India), I would definitely recommend reading it. I would also challenge you to read the entire book, even if you don't agree with everything; you will miss out if you don't finish it. K.P. Yohannan has a grand and inspirational story. I hope this book will profoundly affect and change me as time passes. Great in addressing cross-cultural partnering of churches, missionaries, and overseas ministries and the issue of how much (or should we) to trust native missionaries, and cross-cultural (or of our own sent-out missionaries) accountability. Great lessons all throughout, even though I don't 100% agree with him.

Read with discernment, with a grain of salt, but don't automatically or quickly judge, reject or resist the messages, cautions, challenges offered, or the themes (there is more to the book than just his endorsement and justification of his own organization...please don't get caught up just with that, and judge by that alone). (show less)

 

 

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challenging read...ya gotta get past the guilt of being a "westerner" if you are one...eye opening to the great abundance we take for granted her... (show more)

challenging read...ya gotta get past the guilt of being a "westerner" if you are one...eye opening to the great abundance we take for granted here in America. Scary insights on the reality of spiritual warfare, and how we are so desensitzed to it's happening here in our Nation. truly inspiring to what God can do if we allow Him to work through us, on his terms. (show less)

 

 

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  Yohannan's stories have touched me much, and some of the statistics came as a shock to me. This book's encouraged me to give more, and more significantly, to live with hell in mind. I bet if I took a trip to hell AND made it back, life would have changed radically. And I don't have to literally have that to know how filthy and doomed we are..sometimes life on earth is like hell with all the injustice and sin we inflict on ourselves and others.

  Yohannan seems to portray a racial division o... (show more)

  Yohannan's stories have touched me much, and some of the statistics came as a shock to me. This book's encouraged me to give more, and more significantly, to live with hell in mind. I bet if I took a trip to hell AND made it back, life would have changed radically. And I don't have to literally have that to know how filthy and doomed we are..sometimes life on earth is like hell with all the injustice and sin we inflict on ourselves and others.

  Yohannan seems to portray a racial division of missionary work, which I am uncomfortable with. His solution of native missionaries is a great alternative to countries disillusioned by this social, "white man's burden" thing. But it is problematic to assume, by race, that the Anglophone's missionary work in the field is now over.

  What I believe is a greater problem is the (often Anglo) missionary's complacency and idleness, and cultural obtuseness - all for which they will have to account for on the Day of Judgment.

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  by Daphne Tan on Sep 29, 2009 at 01:44PM

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  An extraordinarily challenging look at missions and the role of those who claim to be followers of Christ. I work in missions and was encouraged and challenged by K.P.'s passion. The resistance he has encountered is, unfortunately, something that I have also seen in the church and I hope this book is used to bring to light the prejudice and bias the Western Church as a whole seems to have towards native missionaries. I have long believed it would be the natives, not the Westerners, that would... (show more)

  An extraordinarily challenging look at missions and the role of those who claim to be followers of Christ. I work in missions and was encouraged and challenged by K.P.'s passion. The resistance he has encountered is, unfortunately, something that I have also seen in the church and I hope this book is used to bring to light the prejudice and bias the Western Church as a whole seems to have towards native missionaries. I have long believed it would be the natives, not the Westerners, that would see the Great Commission fulfilled and I hope to one day be a part of this growing movement. (show less)

   

   

  by Danielle Salter on Jun 16, 2009 at 04:28PM

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