carry guns when they go to church because the church had been bombed ten times by Muslims. This man is on the front line of mission work every day. That is what we need—to be in touch with people like that. We are to live by this same Great Commission. It is our responsibility to make sure that Christ’s kingdom is being witnessed to throughout the world. We are called to be a missionary church. One of the great books of our time is Elisabeth Elliot’s Through Gates of Splendor, which chronicles the