Editorial

The articles in this issue are not closely related.They represent a cross-section of the wide variety of contributions that we receive all the time.They address important Missiological issues in various contexts while especially highlighting the roles the church and its ministries could play towards solving these issues.Johannes Mattheus Wessels, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of the North West, investigates the possible role that the context of the readers played in the explanation of Paul's missionary self-support and the "free offering of the gospel".