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The Cross-Shaped Missionary

The Cross-Shaped Missionary

Update: 2025-07-22
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What does true evangelism look like? In a powerful 1856 sermon on John 10:17 –18, James Henley Thornwell calls the church to a missions model shaped by the cross. For Thornwell, Christ’s self-giving sacrifice is both the message and method of evangelism.

“The spirit of missions is the spirit of the gospel,” he declares—bold words we still need to hear today.

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The Cross-Shaped Missionary

The Cross-Shaped Missionary

Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary