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Missionaries go into all the world and make disciples of all nations, while monks live cloistered in a monastery and focus their lives on prayer and studying Scripture--correct? Not exactly. When we study the history of Christian mission, especially from around 500 to 1500 CE, the key missionaries that we constantly encounter are monks. In fact, if we don't have monks in this period then we have...

the Armenian monarch Trdat was baptized in 301 and declared his kingdom to be a Christian nation. The church was also expanding into Persia and India at this time. Towards the end of the first millennium, the gospel took hold in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, as well as Russia. The spread of Christianity is even more remarkable when we consider the political and religious contexts that the church encountered. As noted, prior to Constantine’s reign in the Roman Empire, Christians were not tolerated
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