Five Pioneer Missionaries (John Eliot, David Brainerd, Henry Martyn, William Burns, John G Paton. Academic believers miss out on the

believers miss out on the fullness of God’s word

He is careful to operate within the constraints of biblical revelation and the historical parameters of church teaching

Daniel and the lion’s den

His sudden appearance out of complete obscurity

’ — JOAN KINGSWOOD

Five Pioneer Missionaries (John Eliot, David Brainerd, Henry Martyn, William Burns, John G Paton. Academic believers miss out on theBOOK DESCRIPTION There are few more thrilling periods of church history than the great missionary movement which stretched from the eighteenth into the nineteenth century. Recognizing that Jesus Christ was the missionary sent by the Father, and that the Bible is the Magna Carta of missions, men like Henry Martyn, John G. Paton, John Eliot, David Brainerd, and William Chalmers Burns left home, family, and love for the sake of Christ and to spread his