Why Greyhawke Missions Fail

Full title: Why Greyhawke Missions Fail: The Assumptions that Doom Evangelical Mission Efforts to the World of Thindacarrule 
Author: Reverend William Cracker DD 
Published: Garnet Press 2022 
Format: E-book, Dead tree
Content: Enlightenment Cleric and former Evangelical Billy Cracker attempts to uncover the assumptions that have doomed every mission effort to Greyhawke from Billy Monday to the Roman Catholic Church has been from failure to total disaster.
*1: They make Assumptions. They assume that Greyhawke is Earth by way of Rivendale. Greyhawke is an alien world. Just because there is no starship ride and some people are Human makes it no less Alien.
*2: They do not do the ground work: Before any mission you should understand the culture you are going into. (He also notes that too many missionary efforts on Earth are guilty of this) Thus far every Christian mission to Greyhawke has failed this, or worse ignored it. I.E. the Catholic mission went where they were told preaching of foreign gods was forbidden, because they were told that. One of the women was captured, and sacrificed.
*3: They Assume they will be welcome with open arms. Everyone is eager for the message of Christ's Salvation...not. Greyhawke has had religions that have worked, that is with clerical magic for tens of thousands of years. Religions that do not pony up the miracles fail. Greyhawkens of every level of society expect this. Also Greyhawke is particularly unwelcoming of the idea that everyone is born broken. The vast majority of religions are self affirming, and the outliers laughed at.
*4: They start too small: Missionary efforts to Greyhawke so far have not worked on a base location that is not the forward preachers. It has been handfuls, with no material support behind them. It's rather like driving form Katmandu straight up the side of Everest without the base camps. Impossible. 
Rev. Cracker elaborates on these points and points out that Greyhawke religions are making inroads on Earth, while the local Evangelical movement is failing, among Earth people. One needs to know why first.
==Reaction==
Among the Evangelicals, at whom the book is aimed, there was a mass exodus to Egypt to go swimming in de-Nile. They twist and turn to not accept the findings, "It is sour grapes from, him leaving" to outright "The devil is speaking through him." A few, precious few are getting the point, grimly.
Out side of that the book is mostly ignored.
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