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This report from the Protestant Reformed Churches' Domestic Missions Committee reflects on the encouragement found in Elijah's experience (1 Kings 19) to combat discouragement in evangelistic labor. The article discusses the committee's mandate to increase efforts in establishing concrete missionary fields, emphasizing God's sovereign work in preserving His elect and sustaining the church's missional calling.
What doest thou here, Elijah? And he said I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. And the Lord said unto him…Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him." I Kings 19:13, 14, 18 These were verses from the...
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