Welcome to Verity Podcast. I'm your host Felicia Masonheimer and I am here to teach you how to

know what you believe to live it boldly and to communicate it graciously to the

world around you.

I believe that women are ready to go deeper in their faith than ever before,

and they don't have to go to seminary to do it.

I am so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this journey because

every woman is a theologian. Hello friends and welcome back to Verity Podcast. Thank you for your patience as we took an unexpected break through all of January

as I was working on the research to complete our early church series

in this Church

expedition that we are on.

I am so excited to be back with you and today we're going to be talking

about missions in the early church as we get closer to the end of this section of our study.

So before we begin into this journey talking about missions in the early church, I wanted to talk a little bit about missions in general.

I think sometimes when we think about missions in our Western American context anyway,

our mind can default to the concept of a short-term mission

trip. And while I think that these can serve a purpose, especially if they're relieving the missionaries on site and giving them a

break in some way or accomplishing a task that otherwise could not be

accomplished like a building being constructed as long as it's not stealing from could not for American white people, then I think they can be really positive.

But when we're looking at missions as a general rule, especially in history, we're talking about something more than a short-term mission trip.

We're talking about a lifestyle of evangelism and discipleship.

And of course, we're not doing an entire series on missions here,

although that would be really awesome. It would be super cool to do a series and

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