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The Crossway Podcast

The Problem with Modern Missions (Matt Rhodes)

The Crossway Podcast

Crossway

Books, Arts, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8653 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In today's episode, Matt Rhodes considers what it should look like to pursue cross-cultural missions with a focus on long-term success and why the American church should be asking itself that very question today. Matt is the author of No Shortcut to Success: A Manifesto for Modern Missions. Read the full transcript. If you enjoyed this episode be sure to leave us a review, which helps us spread the word about the show! Sign up for our mailing list here.

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0:00.0

What does it look like to pursue cross-cultural missions with a focus on long-term success?

0:09.0

My guest today thinks that's a question the American Church needs to ask itself afresh

0:15.0

in the face of new mission strategies and techniques that promise easy shortcuts and quick results on the mission field.

0:22.3

Today I'm speaking with Matt Rhodes, but that's not his real name. Matt works as a missionary

0:27.5

in North Africa and writes under a pseudonym for his own safety and for the safety of those to whom

0:33.2

he ministers. Matt has worked in cross-cultural missions for over a decade and is the author of

0:38.6

No Shortcut to Success, a Manifesto for Modern Missions from Crossway. Let's get started.

0:49.1

Well, Matt, thank you so much for joining me today on the Crossway podcast. Yeah, really glad to.

0:55.3

So the title of your new book with Crossway is, it's pretty provocative, I would say.

1:00.9

It's called No Shortcut to Success, a Manifesto for Modern Missions.

1:06.4

And I think anyone reading that title could pretty reasonably assume that you see some problems

1:12.0

with how missions are often pursued today, that maybe we're trying to take some shortcuts

1:16.4

that are indeed problematic in your mind.

1:19.9

But before we get into what some of those shortcuts might be, I want to focus on that

1:23.9

word manifesto in the subtitle.

1:26.9

That would, I think in my mind and maybe in many listeners' minds, seem to suggest that the problem,

1:32.8

whatever it is, is actually pretty severe.

1:35.3

It's pretty important.

1:37.3

Is that the case?

1:39.3

Yeah, the problems with modern missions have gotten fairly widespread.

1:44.2

I think a lot of the larger missions organizations that I'm aware of that are working in most of the unreached world now

1:52.6

are following fairly similar approaches to missions, and a lot of those approaches are taking, or do seem to be taking shortcuts.

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