Hi Dears Praise The Lord....... (Please give me 5mts to read this) Adopters or Parents? (Continuation) Reading: 2 Corinthians 12:13-21 It is not yours that I seek but you (2 Cor 12:14c) In these days when missionary organisations are on the fast track, we observe certain tragedies prevalent in many Churches. We looked at two of them yesterday. Here are another two— Many Givers but few Goers! I am afraid we have placed more emphasis on money than men. The first call is not to give but to go. Who will GO? (Isa 6:8). Lots of young people were volunteering for missionary work a decade ago. But there is a sudden drop in missionary candidates whereas missionary contribution has increased. Oswald J. Smiths Go or Send has been misunderstood by many of us. You must first consider going. A substitute may be sent only when and where one can not go. Dear young man, young woman, Dont you have a missionary call? When you come across passages like Matthew 28:19, Romans 10:14, dont you hear a voice from ABOVE? As you look around you and see thousands without Christ, is it not a voice from AROUND? Think of the millions who quietly slipped into a christless eternity because no one ever told them of the redeeming love; dont you hear voice from BELOW? As you bow your head in prayer following every missionary appeal, and there is a growing dissatisfaction in your secular job, and there is a disturbance in your spirit, is it not a voice from WITHIN? Many Adopters but few Parents! Missionary organisations are thankful to God for the Churches which promise to regularly support the missionaries. This can be rightly called as adoption. But this is not the ideal we must look for. The Church in Antioch, which sent the first team of missionaries, presents an ideal pattern (Acts 13:1-3). Barnabas and Saul, who were sent forth as missionaries by this Church, were separated from among its own members. I appeal to the pastors of the local Churches to have sufficient missionary content in their sermons; get the Sunday School teachers tell missionary stories and biographies to the children and the youth; invite mission leaders and missionaries atleast once a month to present the need for workers in the fields; send boys and girls teams to mission fields during vacation for observation and inspiration, and work towards a target to send so many missionaries within a certain period right from among the members of the Church. You then as a Church will find the difference in thrill and joy between being the very parents of missionaries and mere adopters! Author,Pr.R.Stanley(from,stanleyonbible)
Posted on: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 11:23:55 +0000
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