MariaM wrote:
Living the Christian life IS missionary work, at least in the Orthodox tradition.
Exactly. So when you \\"send missionaries\\" you are sending people that are of a given faith that will spread it. All Orthodox ARE missionaries, but it is not BEING a missionary. Please don\'t confuse technical and romantic language with common usage. When we say \\"missionary\\", we mean a person who goes to a place that is not his current home (usually) and spreads Orthodoxy. And yes, I think America needs missionaries very much. We can probably get them from America, though, so we don\'t NEED other countries help. It would be nice, though.
