In the modern missionary era, innovations include the use of boards/nonprofit structures, personal support raising, Bible translation (mostly neglected until about a century ago), the use of media in different forms, contextualization, three-self and other indigeneity ideas, the UPG paradigm, and the idea of a “global Christianity.”

To list a few: Invention of paper for the inexpensive dissemination of ideas (and the gospel), the development of the Roman road system that facilitated the spread of the gospel, the invention of the printing press for mass printing of scriptures.