Kennedy Martin’s Reviews > To All Nations From All Nations: A History of the Christian Missionary Movement > Status Update

“…It was in the nineteenth century that a messianic ideology was developing in the United States. This saw the nation as a new Jerusalem and its inhabitants as the new chosen people who were to take throughout the world the truth of the gospel and the values of a ‘Christian culture’.”

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[The contribution of women to the mission of the church] is largely ignored, in part because mission is understood as traveling to distant places, which was not a possibility for most women at the time. However…in the sense of fully living out the gospel, showing the love of Christ among the marginalized and dispossessed, medieval women played a vital role in mission.”

“The reason for us going [on missions] is the universal lordship of Christ…there is no place where he is not present. Thus, the most believers can do as they bear witness and invite others to believe is to present the name of Jesus, his teachings, his promises. But they are not taking him anywhere he was not!”