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Lesslie Newbigin

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The missionary calling has sometimes been interpreted as a calling to stem this fearful cataract of souls going to eternal perdition. But I do not find this in the center of the New Testament representation of the missionary calling.
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The Gospel in a Pluralist Society. Eerdmans, 1989 (reprinted 2002),125.

 
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