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What is mission work? Mission work is the means God uses to preach the gospel of salvation. The Lord uses the preachers sent by His church to proclaim Christ to the wandering and lost sheep of the house of Israel (Matthew 1:6; 15:24).
Mission work is inseparably connected with a denomination’s calling to preach the Word. If we recognize a church’s foreign mission work we also thereby recognize its entire official preaching of the Word. And this forces the problem upon us of stating our relations toward an existing Church Institut
What is Mission Work?—It is that work to which we are called, and which consists in faithfully proclaiming the whole counsel of God in Christ Jesus, with an eye single to glorify God in Christ, as the Holy Spirit causes the Word to accomplish its two-fold purpose namely—“a savour of death unto death
Mission work has always been something that has seemed far away to me, probably because it usually is. I thought that it was something that I would let other people take care of. It was hard for me to picture Christians in other lands, outside of the formal Christian life-style that I have become so
What Mission Work Is To begin with, we are going to have to settle in some way on what we mean by mission work. I do this somewhat hesitantly because I realize that others will follow me, and they may have their own ideas as to just exactly what mission work is.
Missionary work is not just the work of a lone missionary trying to save souls in an African jungle; missionary work is the Spirit-guided work of the entire church! The church calls the missionary, sends the missionary, and supports the missionary. Mission work is very much the work of the layman! A
Mission work must involve all the offices of the church, not just ministers, but also elders and deacons. Mission work must include preparing all the members of the church for Christian witness.
Living on a mission field is work that is not cut out for just anyone. It takes people with special gifts to be able to work with the elderly, mentally retarded, or to work in the emergency room of a hospital, and it takes people with special gifts to live on a mission field. This kind of living tak
Second, there is the work of “home” missionaries, called and sent by local congregations to perform the work of preaching the Word, hopefully for the purpose of gathering believers unto the formation of a congregation. Really the work done by these two is much the same. This work consists primarily