Jim Ruff, D. Min.

The two-way hardships and dangers of missionary service.

In his own brilliant way, historian of missions Andrew F. Walls, wrote that the fundamental qualification of the missionary service is that of a readiness to live “on terms set my someone else.” The first “Someone” is of course the Lord, and the second “someone” would be the people of the culture in which the missionary serves. Since missions requires the presence…