Interview: Jerry Rankin on Spiritual Warfare, Missions

Jerry Rankin, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board, spokeabout his new book with missiologist Ed Stetzer called Spiritual Warfare and Missions

In the interview, Rankin explained what Satan’s most effective strategy is to stop the expansion of the Kingdom of God and why missions is not the ultimate goal of the church.

The following are excerpts from the interview.

The Real Prince of Persia

Finally the moviemakers are getting it, right? We want big action big effect big-time battles in our films that take us away from our everyday lives and transport us to…

Well, name your place. Hogwarts, Sherwood Forest, Pandora, and so many other places are just plain awesome to visit for a few hours and have our imaginations captured and entertained.

And now you can go back in time to 6th Century B.C. Persia in a movie called Aladdin…wait, I mean Prince of Persia. It’s about a street rat who gets adopted by a king and saves the day from an eeeeevil eyeliner wearing dude named Jafar…sorry, I mean Nizam.