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The fact of unprecedented church growth in Africa has also brought some serious questions and problems.

The caption, “A Small Family is a Happy Family,” is written on billboards in beautiful script beneath a picture of a lovely Bengali family of husband, wife and two small children. These ads are strategically placed in hundreds of locations throughout Bangladesh.

“God is a missionary God; the Bible is a missionary book; the Christ of the Bible is a missionary Christ; and His Church is a missionary Church.”

An encouraging development in missions today is the increasing use of small media to communicate the gospel.

About 30 pairs of eyes were intently focused on a photograph. The eyes belonged to church leaders who were crammed into a classroom on the mission station at Tossay.

The disease occurs when the national church claims a territory so great that it cannot possibly evangelize it.