What are the mistakes that Christian missionaries and mission organisations make in Turkey?
The local church has many advantages for missionary work within a country: their members know the culture and the language; they know what is safe to do and what not. Also, a lot of Turks are suspicious of foreign missionaries and are more receptive to the Gospel when it comes from their own people. What can Christian missionaries do better? It’s important to be respectful of the local culture. People are easily offended when their culture is not respected. What’s also important in Turkey is to live a good moral life: a missionary who is not faithful to his wife will not be respected. The family is held in high regard in Turkey. What does the Turkish local church need most of all? A big threat at the moment is lack of leadership. Take for example Malatya, where the killings took place in April 2007. As a result of the massacre many missionaries and ministers left. But the people are still there. They are like “sheep without a shepherd”. This is a very sad situation. We need a good Bibl
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