How to Have an Effective Missionary Encounter with Culture
(By Tim Keller, The Gospel Coalition). Early Christians before Constantine were highly persecuted for being too exclusive, narrow, and strange, and yet at the same time they were fast growing, especially in the urban centers. (See, for example, Alan Kreider’s chapter “The Improbable Growth of the Church” in The Patient Ferment of the Early Church.) This has been called an…