You’re not
one of us –
why should
we trust
you?
Sorry, we
don’t
understand
what you’re
saying.
We don’t
have Internet.
Or TV.
Or time.
We’re not
giving you
a visa just
to make
trouble.
ST
OP
Are you sure
you can
afford this?
These are the five key barriers to the traditional Western
missionary model of cross-cultural evangelism.
A WAY TO REACH THE UNREACHABLE
Westerners who want to take the Gospel to other cultures now face
formidable barriers.
FOUR
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Just look at the road in the diagram above. The problem of getting a visa, for
example, makes it impossible to travel to many parts of the world openly as a
missionary. Strangers, no matter how sincere, will be hard pressed to win trust
or even to be understood. Hundreds of millions still cannot be reached by mass
media or Internet (where Christian websites may well be blocked). Across vast
areas, people are more focused on survival than on investigating alternative
worldviews or belief systems.