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What does a cross-cultural missionary look like? One description won’t work. Cross-cultural gospel-spreaders take all kinds of forms: Bible translators, ESL teachers, environmentalists, pizza shop managers.

Missionaries across the world bless their host cultures in diverse ways to demonstrate and teach the love of God. If you want to know what a missionary does all day, we recommend finding some and asking them. They’ll appreciate that you did.

But in the meantime, we’ve asked one for you.

One of our friends is a doctor in an Asian city with a large Muslim population. He cares for people’s physical needs while laboring to illuminate their great spiritual need and the Solution.

We’ve asked him to write his observations on life, and we’ll post them here over the next weeks starting tomorrow. (You can subscribe to our blog by RSS or email, if you don't want to miss any.)

Some afternoons he spends lunch discussing evil spirits with his patients and pointing them to Scripture. Some mornings he spends hours stuck in traffic jams of rickshaws and goats.

Mainly, he strives to love Jesus Christ and display this love, so that others too might follow him.

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Posts in This Series:

• Do You Believe in Djinn?
• Praying For and Burying the Dead 
• Faithfulness and Fruitlessness
• The Traffic Jam 
• What Is an Altar? 
• Overdubbed Infomercials 
• Responding to the Poet 
• Circumcision and Culture 
• Nothing Works, So Try Everything