Date First Published:
1969
Resource Type:
Conference paper
Topics / Themes:
Contextualisation, Evangelism and witness, Mission
Overview:
A conference paper providing principles for a holistic mission to Muslims.
Content:
In advance of the Teheran Conference of June 1969, fellow missionaries in Lebanon asked Missionary Virginia Cobb to prepare their position paper on missionary methods for work among Muslims. (See The Commission, November 1969, for a conference report and related stories.) Detained in Beirut, Lebanon, by illness, Miss Cobb did not reach Teheran in time to present her paper to the conference. It was read for her by Missionary J.W. (Bill) Trimble and by conference consensus was named “the” paper of the meeting. The hope was expressed by all present that Miss Cobb’s paper could be given wide circulation among Baptists and other Christians.
This paper might well be called a part of the legacy of the late Miss Cobb. Its message is by no means limited to missionaries among Muslims, or just to missionaries, for that matter. Its advice is so scripturally basic that it can apply to Christian witness anywhere. At the same time, because it seeks to avoid traditions in order to major on the Person of the gospel, it may be adversely criticized or even rejected by some.
Academic Discipline
Missiology