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Missions are people being sent to communicate the gospel to others. Missions include missionaries, the message that they bring, and the official calling of being sent. We perceive missions as important in many ways. We read the monthly newsletters, bulletin announcements, and blogs. We give to the c
The word Missions literally means to send, to delegate, to perform some service or function by authority. In connection with our subject, in the theological sense of the word, it means to send forth men with authority to preach the Gospel and administer the sacraments, and that upon the authority f
We prefer the term Missions. This is the word most commonly used throughout the ages. It is the word used by J. H. Bavinck. (Introduction To The Science of Missions) We prefer this term because it expresses all that is necessary to express in regard to this subject. The idea of the church or mission
The latter is mission work in the most selected sense of the term. Specifically the mission-mandate refers to this. Plainly therefore, missions is the work of God who through our Lord Jesus Christ and by His Spirit causes the glorious gospel of salvation to be brought before men so that the eternal
Personal Missions refers to the witness of the Truth we are to give in our words and conduct. As saved in Christ, we exist for one purpose; to be living testimonies of the Truth which saves. What this means is that you are to be walking Bibles. The word of eternal life in Christ is to be plainly sta
Let me begin by defining mission work: bringing the Word of God to God’s elect in all the nations of the world by the power work of the Holy Spirit. It is evident from the Bible (Acts 13:48, John 10:16, John 3:16) that “the purpose of missions is that the church of Jesus Christ is gathered from the
This principle of Missions follows from the first, that missions is the work of God in Christ. While this can never be stressed too much, especially in our day, we must not either lose sight of the necessity of preaching. It is indeed true that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself; a
Missions is the official task of the Church to preach the gospel to all nations in obedience to the injunction of Christ given immediately before His ascension into heaven: "standing on the mount Jesus said to His disciples and thus to His Church: "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing t
What is the present status of missions in our churches? To answer this question we could begin by reporting an inventory of our present facilities and reviewing our present activities. We have a mission board, consisting of five ministers and four laymen, men who have been chosen by synod and mandat
Now there is nothing wrong with those on the mission field doing this, it would seem that Paul did so too, but that is not mission work; the mission work is the going out and contacting new people, calling them to repentance and life. It is from this that the organizing of a church will be the resul