Brian Pate’s Reviews > Cross: Unrivaled Christ, Unstoppable Gospel, Unreached Peoples, Unending Joy > Status Update

"The feet of those who leave behind family and friends and familiarity to adapt to language and customs and place are still the most beautiful feet in the world – because they echo with the journey of the nail-scarred feet that are left behind heavens everything to come to us in our nothing." (7)

Mathis seems to begin with too narrow a definition of missions, limiting it only to evangelism among unreached or unengaged people groups (4), neglecting other needed aspects including leadership development.