What have you discovered about evangelical global engagement?<\/b><\/p>\n
Churches, nongovernmental organizations, lay leaders, and missionaries have played an important part in the United States’ role in the world. Beyond preaching the Good News, missionaries built schools, established clinics, and learned about the world. They were really the first internationalists for the United States. Diplomats like Benjamin Franklin and John Adams went abroad, but it was really evangelicals\u201d\u201dorthodox missionaries\u201d\u201dwho started it.<\/p>\n
In the post\u201d\u201cWorld War II era, we’ve seen a significant rise in missions-related organizations, groups like World Vision or, in the field of microenterprise, Opportunity International. Humanitarianism has been a very important component of evangelical action in foreign lands.<\/p>\n
What this shows is that evangelism abroad hasn’t always been propositional. Evangelical diplomats, businessmen, and physicians want to share the Good
\nNews in places where missionaries aren’t allowed, but the sharing of that Good News takes subtle forms.<\/p>\n