A History of Missions
The Gospel reached the world through ordinary believers who were sent, who suffered, and who sometimes failed badly, and the whole story belongs to Christ, who will gather His people from every nation.
The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.
How the Gospel spread in Acts, and how to tell Scripture from tradition
Why Patrick, the free churches, the Moravians, and George Liele matter, and how to speak fairly of Roman Catholic missions
What William Carey changed in 1792, and what those who followed him gave
What some great servants cost their families, and why God never asks for that
Where missions failed under colonial power, and how to answer honestly
Why the center of Christian numbers has moved south, and what the unfinished task asks of you