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It is obvious that we cannot enter into an anti-Christian culture in Asia and share the Gospel without receiving a violent reaction. In conservative Muslim cultures, evangelizing foreign missionaries will be strongly resisted and even killed, and churches will be burned. In xenophobic socialist nations, foreign missionaries will be expelled and their passports black-listed to prevent A Christian entering a hostile culture in Asia should expect a hostile reaction. A Christian that tries to propagate his faith in such a culture should expect a violent response. This is natural (people don’t like change) and supernatural (Satan is real and is not about to relinquish his control over “his people”). In spite Real missions faces real opposition. The Book of Acts, which is God’s “manual on missions,” teaches us that opposition is normal. However, most missions courses in Christianized countries omit this important truth. We would be shocked if our nation’s army recruited soldiers without telling them that their work would involve danger. But the recruiters of Church-planting in hostile countries in Asia proceeds at a snail’s pace. In fact, most missionaries completely avoid even attempting to plant churches in these countries because they are convinced that it is unfeasible to do so. Worse still, they even discourage missionaries from going to such countries by telling them that it is a waste of |
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