This is the audio from an introductory course on missions that a missionary friend and I taught at our home church. This first lesson talks about how missions relates to God’s cosmic purposes for mankind. It focuses mainly on a survey of the Old Testament, particularly God’s selection of Abraham and his descendants. How do we reconcile the apparent discrepancy between God’s narrow focus on a single race in the Old Testament with the worldwide proclamation of the Gospel in the New Testament? (1 hr. 6 min.)

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