The Church-Shaped Gap in Our Missions Strategy

When I arrived as a new missionary to Japan thirteen years ago, seeking to minister to the world’s second-largest unreached people group, I believed fervently in the importance of the church. I was a founding elder at an international church plant, our church was evangelizing and baptizing new believers, and I taught church polity and ecclesiology courses to seminary students. Nevertheless, for all my love for the church, I gradually discovered a church-shaped gap in my missiology.This gap can b