Ask Missionary

Is it possible that missionaries could unknowingly carry devastating disease to the tribes they seek to reach with the gospel? In this episode, missionary Brooks Buser provides a thought provoking answer from personal experience and biblical wisdom.

Missionary Brooks Buser explains some of the pros and cons of short-term missions trips.

Brooks Buser explains what sets medical missions apart, how physical healing and salvation connect, and investigates some of the objections to medical missions.

Pastor Chad Vegas gives a trenchant answer to contemporary objections to the Great Commission.

"Someone's doctrine and practice will prevail." Pastor Chad Vegas offers some wisdom from scripture and missionary history about how presbyterians and baptists should address infant or believer baptism on the mission field.

Brooks and Nina Buser revisit their experience church planting and translating to give us an idea of how long a missionary can expect to spend doing this work on the field.

Has the time of missions sent from the Western nations past? Pastor Chad Vegas digs into the argument that, missiologically, the Western Church's day in the sun has gone, and offers some biblical wisdom on how we can move forward.

If you've seen Missionary: Obeying the Great Commission, visited Missionary.com, or attended a Missionary conference, you've heard us say "missionaries are called to suffer." But is blood, sweat, and tears all a missionary can expect? Missionaries Brooks and Nina Buser reflect on their 13 year mission to the Yembiyembi and give us a glimpse of the grace and joy that come from serving Christ on the field.

Are missionaries better at doing God's will than "regular" Christians? Tune in to hear Pastor Chad Vegas, co-founder of Radius International and Missionary.com, explains why emphasis on reaching the unreached is biblical, even when God hasn't called you to go.

What if the most successful missions methodology of the last generation was fundamentally flawed? Pastor Chad Vegas, author of A Brief Guide to Disciple Making Movements, zooms in on the biblical sounding language of discipleship and reveals some troubling concerns about a philosophy for saving the lost that runs counter to scriptural wisdom.