Read: Luke:14:15-24
Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in. - Luke 14:23
Paul W.Powell wrote, "Many churches today remind me of a laboring crew trying to gather a harvest while they sit in the toolshed. They go to the toolshed every Sunday and they study bigger and better methods of agriculture, sharpen their hoes, grease their tractors and then get up and go home. Then they come back that night, study bigger and better methods of agriculture, sharpen their hoes, grease their tractors, and get up and go home. They do this week in and week out, year in and year out, and nobody ever goes out into the fields to gather in the harvest" (The Complete Disciple).
Christ's final command to His disciples was to tell everyone about His saving power. Just before he ascended to heaven, He said, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mk. 16:15). Today, that great commission is still the responsibility of believers. But many church members, even though they have much Bible knowledge and have been Christians for years, never enter the harvest field.
I must confess my own guilt. I promote missions and missionary endeavors regularly. But I haven't been out in the realm of the lost as I should be. It's time for all of us to confess our shortcomings and to get into the fields. - Dave Egner
There Is Only One Thing We Can't Do For Missions - Get Rid Of Our Responsibility.
Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in. - Luke 14:23
Paul W.Powell wrote, "Many churches today remind me of a laboring crew trying to gather a harvest while they sit in the toolshed. They go to the toolshed every Sunday and they study bigger and better methods of agriculture, sharpen their hoes, grease their tractors and then get up and go home. Then they come back that night, study bigger and better methods of agriculture, sharpen their hoes, grease their tractors, and get up and go home. They do this week in and week out, year in and year out, and nobody ever goes out into the fields to gather in the harvest" (The Complete Disciple).
Christ's final command to His disciples was to tell everyone about His saving power. Just before he ascended to heaven, He said, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mk. 16:15). Today, that great commission is still the responsibility of believers. But many church members, even though they have much Bible knowledge and have been Christians for years, never enter the harvest field.
I must confess my own guilt. I promote missions and missionary endeavors regularly. But I haven't been out in the realm of the lost as I should be. It's time for all of us to confess our shortcomings and to get into the fields. - Dave Egner
Lord of harvest, send forth reapers!
Hear us, Lord to Thee we cry;
Send them now the sheaves to gather,
Ere the harvest-time pass by. - Thompson
There Is Only One Thing We Can't Do For Missions - Get Rid Of Our Responsibility.
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