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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