Contemporary missions literature places a high value on reproducibility.The acceptability of a methodology is judged in large part by how reproducible it is. Even if a method is biblical, contemporary missionaries are increasing demanding that it be easily reproduced by local believers. The idea is that a new or uneducated believer could leave our training and reproduce what they were taught to others. Among recent books, Steve Smith’s T4T (WIGTake, 2011) may be the most forceful in emphasizing this point.... Read more