Mission Motives

In the last two verses of the Gospel according to Matthew, we read, "Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen." This Word of God, often called the Great Commission or the Missionary Mandate, is clear in as far as it goes. It is a command; it is a command which carries all the...