Missionaries Go with the Flow of History

I had a T-shirt in high school that said, “Go Against the Flow,” and showed a Christian fish swimming the opposite direction of all the other fish. That shirt asserted my independence from the dominant trends in my public school and reminded me that to live for Jesus is countercultural in any age. “Do not be conformed to this world” (Romans 12:2) tells us that it takes effort to stand apart from the natural flow of a sinful world.Motivation for missions certainly includes a desire to swim agains