Dr. Ed Smither, Columbia International University’s dean of Intercultural Studies, is also a professor of the History of Global Christianity and often writes about the early church. In a recent article on John Piper’s Desiring God website, Smither discusses how the suffering of Gregory the Illuminator led the nation of Armenia to Christ in the year 301. Smither writes:

Marked by protracted suffering, remarkable displays of God’s power, and witness in the highest political spheres, Gregory’s late third-century mission to Armenia has much to teach us about mission across the globe today.

Read “Conversion Story of a Nation; How Suffering Led Armenia to Christ.”

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