What does missions look like in a global city like Paris, France?

In this episode of The Missions Show, Alex and Scott are joined by pastor Billy Bean to discuss A City of Light, a short documentary exploring gospel work in Paris, France. Often overlooked as a missions field, Paris is presented as a strategic global city, shaped by history, migration, and secular ideology, whose influence extends far beyond Europe.

Billy explains how missionaries and pastors in Paris seek to connect with deeply held French values—such as beauty, freedom, identity, and intellectual rigor—while confronting their limits and fulfilling their deepest longings through the gospel.

View the film and learn more at https://christcovenant.com/acityoflight

• Why Paris and Western Europe remain vital mission fields
• Global cities as strategic hubs for gospel influence
• The legacy of secularism and expressive individualism in French culture
• Contextualization: connecting, confronting, and fulfilling culture with the gospel

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New year, new name. The Missions Podcast is now The Missions Show.

Why the change? We’re stepping into a video-first world. The show is now on NRBTV, with Lighthouse TV launching soon in central Pennsylvania. We’ve been on YouTube for some time, and this rebrand reflects a move beyond audio-only podcasting to serve a wider audience.

What hasn’t changed is the heart of the show. We’ll keep the same format and the same purpose—answering hard questions in missiology, theology, and practice to help goers think and thinkers go.

Thanks to everyone who’s been with us since we launched in October 2017. We’re grateful for the last eight years and excited for what’s ahead.

In this week's episode, Alex and Scott welcome pastor Aaron Menikoff (Atlanta, USA) and pastor Harshit Singh (Lucknow, India) to discuss how evangelism and missions function through the local church, particularly in the Indian context. Drawing from their book Prioritizing Missions in the Church, Menikoff and Singh argue that missions should not be treated as a side program but as an outflow of ordinary, faithful church life.

They emphasize that preaching, prayer, discipleship, and the ordinances—when practiced consistently—form the foundation through which God raises up and sends missionaries to the nations. The conversation highlights how this church-centered approach applies across cultures, including settings with limited resources and growing opposition to Christianity.

• Missions as the beating heart of the local church, not a side program
• The role of ordinary means of grace (preaching, prayer, ordinances) in global missions
• A biblical definition of missions as crossing cultural, linguistic, and geographic barriers
• Practical ways churches can embed missions into regular church life
• Discipleship and long-term theological training for future missionaries

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