Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode we are visiting with one who was with us just a little bit ago.

We have again on the show Dr Michael Hagen. Dr. Hagen, good to have you with us.

And Dr. Hagen, good to have you with us. Good to be here.

And Dr. Hagen is the professor of church history and biblical spirituality at the Southern Baptist

Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

And last time he was with us, talked about his book 8 Women of Faith, a book

published by Crossway. We're going to be talking about another book he

published with Crossway called To the Ends of the Earth. Now Dr. Haken that book is about history of

missions and significant figures who both contributed to our thought on missions

were missionaries themselves,

but there's something they all have in common

they're also from the reformed tradition.

And some people would say, well, that's

an oxymoronic thing to have reformed theologians talking about missions.

Would you care to respond to that?

Yeah, I think the book grew out of the fact that there has been significant upsurge in the

embrace of Reformed Truth in the last you know 25 40 years and

along with that there has been a kickback a pushback that this is not good for the church. It's not good for the church because

as is supposedly well known, the Reformed tradition is not interested in missions. We don't

do missions well. To me that's a very, very narrow mindset.

Narrow because it fails to understand the way in church history,

the missionary movement going back through people like William Carey, some of the Puritans back to the reformers,

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