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Foreword
by Phil Parshall
SIM missionary to the Sons oflshmael
One of my early remembrances of Greg is in the 1970s when we were at a conference on Islam together. We were standing apart from the crowd and I was holding forth, criticizing one of the leaders of the consultation. Suddenly Greg looked over my shoulder, saw the person who was the object of my slander, and said, "Oh, Bob, come join us. Phil has something he wants to share with you." Needless to say, I was greatly embarrassed.
That was vintage Greg. Transparency and forthrightness are his hallmark. How does a missionary statesman get away with such a lifestyle of calling it like he sees it? Firstly, he is harder on himself than on others; secondly, he surrounds his criticism with a warm, concerned, caring personality; and thirdly, he does it with a smile.
I was one of Greg's detractors in the early 1980s. In reality, why did Greg want to start a new mission? Did I see evidence of pride in his insistence that mission to Muslims be done the Livingstonian way? Did evangelicalism need another