You know you're a pioneer missionary when...

Written by Karl Dahlfred on 01 May 2015.

I can identify with a number of these indications that you you are pioneer missionary from Forrest McPhail’s book, “Pioneer Missions: Meet the Challenges, Share the Blessings” (read my review here). Perhaps some of my fellow missionaries can as well. Forrest writes…

You know you're a pioneer missionary when:

Your neighbor thinks that you have magical powers as a holy man
You suddenly come across a little girl in the countryside and, screaming, she runs away from the foreigner
You apply passages of the Bible referring to food offered to idols to actual food-offered-to-idols scenarios
Almost every believer you know is a first-generation Christian
You wonder whether a bag of rice given to someone in compassion might obscure the Gospel
Many of the new believers confess to having seen demons, even after conversion
You can quote Genesis 1:1 in a foreign language before you can remember how to quote John 3:16 in English
When you present the Gospel, you have to address the issue of persecution