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The Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions contains more than 1,400 articles on the theory, practice, theology, and history of missions. A comprehensive, one-volume reference, it not only provides a wealth of information on the topic of world missions, it also offers a contemporary study of the subject from an evangelical perspective. Over three hundred missionaries, theologians, and educators...

Missionary. Few terms within the evangelical missiological vocabulary generate more diverse definitions. For some, “everybody is a missionary,” but STEPHEN NEILL is right in saying that if everybody is a missionary, nobody is a missionary. A few argue that a select category of persons are honored with this title; but still others discard it totally and substitute “apostolic messenger” instead. The Biblical Root and Uses. In the New Testament the Greek term apostellō (with a related one, pempō) emerges
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