Chapter 3: Barbarians Storming the Gates

In the early 2000s, Tim Keller envisioned a new way of approaching global missions—one that avoided the pitfalls of traditional models. Instead of sending American missionaries to foreign countries or simply funding local leaders, he proposed a partnership model: pairing supportive “cultural outsiders” with empowered “cultural insiders” to plant churches that were rooted in their own cities’ contexts.