REVOLUTION IN WORLD MISSIONS
One man’s journey to change a generation
By K.P. Yohannan
GFA Books. 230 pages
ISBN 978-1-59589-061-0
Available from www.gfa.org/store
‘KP’ founded Gospel for Asia, and his premise is that Asia can only be effectively reached by indigenous nationals.
Several challenges to the North American church flow from that. He asserts a lost sight of judgment, and that socially focused work is ineffective in bringing lost souls to Christ. (He points out that Jesus fed after preaching.) He claims that the church’s thinking is still ‘colonial’, and details the downsides of sending foreigners to Asia. For example, the enormous cost of sending overseas compared to that of supporting a national, and the perpetuation of a ‘Western religion’ view with imperialistic intentions. Language and cultural barriers need to be overcome and there can be huge lifestyle inequalities which feed an increasingly anti-Western mindset.
