sent or went

W. Austin Gardner • May 21, 2022

Then one of the godly old elders of the church there, a white-bearded patriarch by the name of Englehart, said to me, “Son, there are two kinds of missionaries. There are the sent ones and there are the went ones—before you come back here as a missionary, you make sure you are one of the sent ones!” It was sound advice.

John Phillips, Exploring Acts: An Expository Commentary , The John Phillips Commentary Series (Kregel Publications; WORDsearch Corp., 2009), Ac 13:5b.

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