How do you define SUCCESS?
I have written in the past that I believe we are now in the early stages of the 4th Era of Modern Missions. Missiologist Ralph Winter has analyzed Missions History since the 1700s and divided the time into 3 Eras: The Era of the Coastlands 1792-1910, The Era of Inland Missions 1865-1980, The Era of People Groups 1934-the future. In 2010 Missiologist Tom Steffen wrote a book called "The Facilitator Era" in which he proposed that around the year 2000, a new Era had begun. This Facilitator Era has specific characteristics that I have talked about in a previous blog from May 20 of this year. It is not my purpose to rehash that here, but I do recommend that you read that specific blog. However, in this article I want to shift to a practical mode and ask the question: In this new Era, how is Success measured? If a leader or a church or a missions agency decides to take up a "Facilitator" role toward completing the great commission, what is ...