J. Keith McKinley

Associate Professor of Christian Missions; Director, Bevin Center for Missions Mobilization; Chair, Department of Evangelism and Missions

Dr. Keith McKinley serves as the Associate Professor of Christian Mission and Director of the Bevin Center for Mission Mobilization at Southern Seminary. Prior to coming to Southern, Dr. McKinley served with the International Mission Board in Southeast Asia for twenty years. Dr. McKinley is a member of Westport Road Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. He is married to Gail, and they have four children.

Isaiah 49:1-6

How Do Missionaries Do Their Work?

Missionaries proclaim the gospel simple and sufficient and teach the gospel deep and complete in the power of the Spirit so that people see and understand.

Where Do Missionaries Serve?

We release missionaries from our churches and send them off to where the church is not and where the church is weak.

Who is a Missionary?

In the first article of this series, I defined missions and explained how the gospel of God and the obedience of faith function in this definition. Continuing our series on building a biblical missiology, this article deals with the question: who is a missionary? Taking our lead from Romans 1:1-5, I define missionary as follows:

Building a Biblical Missiology

My goal in this article is to set forth a biblical definition of missions, the purpose for which we send missionaries, that which missionaries do—the missionary-mission.