Active Congregational Involvement

Every true church has a concern for evangelism and missions-a genuine, Scripturally-directed concern to proclaim the gospel to others. Every member of the church is responsible for evangelism and mission work. The Great Commission comes, not to missionaries, mission committees, or evangelism committees, but to the church. The Great Commission is not the responsibility only of the consistory or of an evangelism committee or society. It is the church, as a whole, which must give answer to God...