Visiting (YOUR) Mission Fields (1)
Dykstra argues that missions is the essential work of the church as a whole, carried out through ordained ministers who are sent by the institutional church under the Holy Spirit's direction. He encourages church members to actively participate in and support mission work by taking personal interest, visiting mission fields, and recognizing that missionary efforts belong to the entire body of believers, not just professional missionaries.
Missions is one of the essential works to which Jesus Christ has called His church. Christ's church is the body of believers. Thus, believers, missions is your work. No, that does not mean that all believers are called to be missionaries. On the contrary, ordained ministers are called to be missionaries in order to do this official mission work of the church. But even then, "how shall they preach except they be sent?" (Rom. 10:15). The church sends them out, as Paul and Barnabas were sent out,...
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