to step back in time and live the way it had done before. No, God spoke in each generation in that generation’s ways. Most of us know one of the major failures of missionary work was the unfortunate (if naïve and good-intentioned) imposing of Western ways on African or Asian ways. We now know that the gospel has the power to generate expressions of the gospel in every language, in every culture, and in every ethnic group. If we know this about current missionary work, doesn’t that warn us about the