A professor of world Christianity offers three aspects of the Great Commission that are all too often neglected.
Author
Brian Stanley
Brian Stanley is a professor of world Christianity and the director of the Centre for the Study of World Christianity at the University of Edinburgh. He has written or edited six books, including most recently “The World Missionary Conference: Edinburgh 1910.”
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