From Our President
Dear Readers,
On my last trip to South Asia, I was profoundly impacted by the spiritual darkness I sensed in almost every place we went.
I saw firsthand the weariness of dear people who day after day performed their religious rituals in hope of gaining merit for the next life. Their faces betrayed the doubt in their hearts and evidenced their nagging question: “Is it enough?”
Because of the darkness that was so obvious, it was also easy to determine where the influence or edge of the church began and ended. We met with a couple who had just moved from the south to this “edge” who were finding that the methods that they had used elsewhere did not seem to penetrate the darkness here on the edge.
They asked, “Can you help us? Do you know how to do ministry in this context?”
Working together as a body — you, us and them — and dependent on God’s guidance, He will provide the wisdom we need. We are both excited and humbled to partner with this couple and with you in trusting God to move the edge of the church, so that people on the other side who are desperately in need of a Savior can find salvation, resulting in peace and assurance for their souls.
As you learn more about engaging on the edge of the church in this issue of Ethnos360 magazine, may I ask you to commit to pray for more laborers who are willing to go to work on that edge?
“For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:6).
Larry M. Brown
Ethnos360 President
