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Journal of Missions and Evangelism the Southern Fall 2012 • Volume 1 Issue 2 THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST JOURNAL OF MISSIONS AND EVANGELISM A Publication of the Billy Graham School of Missions & Evangelism The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Editor-in-Chief R. Albert Mohler Jr. Executive Editor Zane Pratt Editor Jeff Walters Editorial Assistant Stephen Lorance David Wells Book Review Editor Will Brooks Creative Director Eric Rivier Jimenez Design/Layout Daniel Carroll Cover Design Emil Handke Editorial Office and Subscription Services The Billy Graham School of Missions and Evangelism The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2825 Lexington Road, Louisville, Kentucky 40280 Editorial Email [email protected] Yearly subscription costs for four, quarterly issues: Individual inside the U. S., $25; individual outside the U.S., $40; institutions inside the U.S., $45; institutions outside the U.S., $65. We encourage the submission of letters, suggestions, and articles by our readers. THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST JOURNAL OF MISSIONS is published quarterly by the: Billy Graham School of Missions and Evangelism, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2825 Lexington Road, Louisville, Kentucky 40280. Fall 2012. Vol. 1, No. 2. Copyright © 2012 The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. ISSN 2167-8316 Second Class postage paid at Louisville, Kentucky. Postmaster: Send address changes to: The Billy Graham School of Missions and Evangelism The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2825 Lexington Road, Louisville, Kentucky 40280. THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST JOURNAL OF MISSIONS AND EVANGELISM Fall 2012 • Volume 1 Issue 2 CONTENTS 04 Editorial Zane Pratt 06 Breaking the Strong Attachment to Home and Country: The Influence of a Friend of Fuller’s Friends on Adoniram Judson Jason G. Duesing 14 “We Are Confirmed Baptists”: The Judsons and Their Meeting With the Serampore Trio in 1812 Michael A.G. Haykin 22 The Life and Significance of Ann Hasseltine Judson (1789-1826) Sharon James 34 The Importance of Biblical Counseling in Missions Hannah Carter 44 A Theology of Strategic Risk in the Advance of the Gospel Mark Morris 62 Book Reviews 3 A Publication of the Billy Graham School of Missions & Evangelism The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Editorial ZANE PRATT Zane Pratt (Ph.D. cand., Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) has been the Dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions and Evangelism since 2011. Prior to his tenure at Southern, Pratt served twenty years with the International Mission Board, SBC, and as a church planter in New England. 012 marks three significant anniversaries in the and his attitude is not uncommon among Americans. 2history of Christian missions. Two hundred We who are Christians, however, should have a dif- years ago, in 1812, Adoniram and Ann Judson set ferent perspective on our family history. The memory sail from the harbor in Salem, Massachusetts. They of people like the Judsons and Lottie Moon fills us were bound for South Asia, and with their com- with admiration, and it also serves to challenge the panions they were the first foreign missionaries to casualness of our own obedience. When they and go out from the United States. One hundred years their generations left home, they did so with little ago, in 1912, Southern Baptist missionary Lottie expectation or hope of ever returning – and most of Moon died, ending a remarkable career that has them never did. They went without electronic com- had a lasting impact both in her beloved China and munication technologies or modern transportation among the churches that sent her out. That same systems. They went knowing full well that they would year, Roland Allen published Missionary Methods: face exotic diseases for which there were no known St. Paul’s, or Ours? As Allen himself predicted, his cures, and they had no expectation of medical evacu- book has attracted far more notice as the years have ation if something went wrong. They did not count gone by, and today it is impossible to think about on political intervention to protect them from hostile missiology without taking Allen into account. governments. Few today face the level of uncertainty How should we think about such milestones in common to them. Their example demonstrated the missions history, or indeed about missions history worth of the Gospel in ways modern Western Chris- itself? Henry Ford famously called history “bunk,” tians would do well to embrace. 4 SBJME 1.2 | FALL 2012 We also learn valuable lessons about how to do how to pursue the calling of global evangelization. missions from people like the Judsons, Lottie Moon, 2012, then, is an occasion for celebration among and Roland Allen. They had far fewer examples to mission-minded Christians. We should celebrate follow. They did many things very well, and they the beginning of the American foreign mission laid the foundation on which the current global movement in the sailing of Adoniram and Ann spread of the Gospel is being built. They and their Judson. We should celebrate the life and impact of generations tried things, some with good outcomes Lottie Moon. We should celebrate the keen powers and some with unintended negative consequences, of observation and analysis that God gave Roland and their experience is valuable to us today. Roland Allen. As we celebrate, we can honor their memory Allen, in particular, reflected on what he saw at the best by learning from their lives and by redoubling turn of the last century, and his observations help us our efforts to fulfill the vision for which they gave significantly down to this day. Because of their cour- those lives – the spread of the Gospel to the ends of age and creativity, we have a far better idea today the earth. PRATT | 4-5 5 Breaking the Strong Attachment to Home and Country: The Influence of a Friend of Fuller’s Friends on Adoniram Judson JASON G. DUESING1 Jason G. Duesing serves as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Assistant Professor of Historical Theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He is the editor of the recently released “Adoniram Judson: A Bicentennial Appreciation of the Pioneer American Missionary” by B&H Academic. To Merari belonged the clan of the Mahlites and the during the days of the Israelites’ wanderings. A poten- clan of the Mushites: these are the clans of Merari. tial source of discontent, Bonar sees where the sons Their listing according to the number of all the of Merari might say, “Why do our brethren the Koha- males from a month old and upward was 6,200. And thites carry the Ark while we carry the pins?” To this the chief of the fathers’ house of the clans of Merari question Bonar responds: was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle. And the appointed Because God said it; that is all. He that serves most guard duty of the sons of Merari involved the frames is the greatest in the kingdom. He who carries the of the tabernacle, the bars, the pillars, the bases, and pins may get the greatest reward …. Do not say, ‘I all their accessories; all the service connected with want to get out of the rut into another place.’ If you these; also the pillars around the court, with their get out of the rut of carrying pins when God put you bases and pegs and cords. (Numbers 3:33-37 ESV) there, you will not be blessed. Are we in the camp with God? That is the great thing.2 ocusing on the detailed description of this Lev- Fite clan, Andrew Bonar (1810-1892), pastor in A century earlier, another Scot, Claudius Scotland and mentor of Robert Murray McCheyne, Buchanan (1766-1815), faithfully lived out the kind crafted a sermon titled, “The Pins of the Tabernacle.” of service Bonar would describe. Though largely for- Therein, Bonar reflects on God’s design and plan for gotten today, Buchanan was a friend of William Carey the designation of someone specific to carry the pins (and thus a friend of Fuller’s friends) who carried the 6 SBJME 1.2 | FALL 2012 “Tabernacle pins” of missions advocacy among his mother trained him to read a chapter of the Bible as a contemporaries to the degree that historian Wilbert surprise gift to his preacher-father. Indeed, though he Shenk noted Buchanan’s influence in “playing the drifted far from it, the Book that he later translated into decisive role in opening India to Christian missions the Burmese language was never far from him. Even as in the early years of the nineteenth century.”3 a young child, His father, who sought for Adoniram a life of great achievement, fanned Judson’s remarkable A FAITHFUL SERVANT abilities into a competitive ambition. 5 Through his memoirs, field reports, and sermon The Judson family relocated to Wenham, Massa- collections, Buchanan labored persistently to inspire chusetts, in January 1793, where they remained until others to the task of global evangelization. Yet, while Adoniram was 11. Leaving Wenham in May 1800, the he made a number of significant contributions in his Judsons spent two years in Braintree, Massachusetts own lifetime toward the expansion of the missionary before settling in Plymouth May 11, 1802. At the age task, it was a single sermon, an ordinary “Tabernacle of 14, Judson contracted a debilitating illness that effec- pin” if you will, that God used to direct the heart and tively suspended his life for an entire year. During that mind of the pioneer American missionary, Adoniram time, he realized that his well-conceived plans for per- Judson at a time when he needed a word from God the sonal greatness as an orator, poet, or statesman were in most. The result of Buchanan’s influence was a deci- danger of failing.
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