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The Problem with Modern Missions (Matt Rhodes)

The Crossway Podcast

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The Importance of Professionalism in Missions

In your book you share a story of your struggle to learn Arabic and even the pressure that you started to feel to stop focusing on the language learning. But I've also seen missionaries in the same place who were asked to leave teams or who were pushed off the field. And something that I would love to say for people, even who don't buy what I'm trying to say here, is that a little bit of extra fluency probably can't hurt. Even if you do think that most of what happens, mostly the spirits are just going to work through dreams or mostly the spirits will be working through miracles, you still can't hurt you to have really strong language.

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