Abstract:
The article compares two views on the missionary problem: one was expressed in
Andrew Murray’s book The Key to the Missionary Problem,1 about 120 years ago. Murray
emphasised the low level of the spiritual life of the church as the main missionary
problem; the key to solving this problem is the revival of a strong personal spiritual
life in all missionaries and in all church members. The second view on the missionary
problem has to do with one of the unfinished tasks of the missionary movement that
Murray helped to establish. It is tacitly found in the Nova Institute’s work over the last
26 years. It is not presented as the key to the missionary problem but as a small effort to
contribute to the solving of one of the missionary problems, namely the gap between
the spiritual and the everyday lives of church members.
