The Impossibility of Missions
Richard Smit argues that recognizing the human impossibility of missions—properly understood through the lens of God's sovereign grace—actually strengthens missionary motivation and practice rather than discouraging it. The article emphasizes that faithful missionary work depends entirely on God's sovereignty while requiring the missionary's faithful proclamation of the Word, expository preaching, and call to repentance, modeled after the apostle Paul's example.
At first glance, one might think from the title that this article will fail to promote a healthy interest in missions. Who would be interested in biblical and Reformed missions if he is told that it is a humanly impossible work from many perspectives? Nevertheless, it is worthwhile to remember that the work of faithful missions, including its important result of positive fruit, is truly a wonder of grace alone. Faithful missions is the wonder-work of the sovereign Lord of the harvest, in which...
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