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Missions in the Reformation
Topic Started: Sep 17 2006, 09:55 PM (86 Views)
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It seems rather odd, if not shocking, that in the midst of the Inquisition, while the Catholics are furiously trying to force Protestants to recant Christianity and turn back to the mother faith, that they would have more converts through their missionary efforts than they lost to begin with.

Despite the valiant efforts on the part of the Protestants, treachery and lack of knowledge nearly destroyed their missions work. Language was a formidable barrier in Brazil, while the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre decimated the Huguenots on the home front.

Murder wasn’t the only thing hindering the reformers. Divisions amongst themselves gave them anything but a unified front against their common enemy, but few worked to fond common ground for all of them. Added to that was the lack of mission boards, of which the Catholics had quite a few committed solely to the purpose. The Reformers themselves had very misconstrued theories on the purpose, place, time, etc of missions, which certainly didn’t help the cause any.

After the colonization of America, several men felt led to witness to the Indians, Roger Williams and David Brainerd being the most well known.

Back in Europe, Philip Spener was starting the Pietist movement while Count Zinzendorf was relocating the persecuted Moravians. Between the two factions, they did more for the mission cause than almost all the rest combined during the Reformation.
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