Why do we support national and international missionaries and mission agencies? Is there biblical precedent for missions? Some have suggested that is the wrong outlook. Rather we should view it as “the missional basis of the Bible.” “The reason God revealed Himself to us in His Word was that we might know Him and make Him known.” What is a Christian missionary? One definition I read is “A missionary is someone who never gets used to the sound of pagan footsteps on their way to a Christless eternity.”