FIRST-PERSON: I want to be the pastor
“I want to be the pastor,” said the woman in our church. It was 1985, and I was a first-term missionary in Tanzania. The lady was a graduate of Tanzania’s Baptist seminary and the wife of a government official, while the other candidates were uneducated men. I explained to her why this was not biblical.
FIRST-PERSON: Remember the mission
Letters arrived in New England in 1813 with troubling news for two groups of churches. For Congregationalists, their new missionaries had resigned from their mission board, claiming now to be Baptists. On the other hand, Baptist churches in the United States were thrilled to hear Adoniram and Sarah Judson had joined their ranks, but there was no denomination, no mission board, no nothing, to support them.
