What is stopping the rest of the world from hearing the gospel message? There are probably many reasons but I’ve read that only 2 percent of a church goer’s giving goes to global missions that are indigenous and entrepreneurial. Most giving goes to support the infrastructure of the church itself. We have many concerns and anxieties about our own future, let alone the eternal future of those we’ve never met. But after meeting a few who are risking it all to establish native Les churches and business to help families be self supporting, I want to be engaged in missions.
“God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply.” – J. Hudson Taylor, 1832-1905, missionary to China
“Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell.” – C.T. Studd
“The lust of the flesh includes anything that appeals to man’s fallen nature. “The flesh” does not mean “the body.” Rather, it refers to the basic nature of unregenerate man that makes him blind to spiritual truth (1 Cor. 2:14). Flesh is the nature we receive in our physical birth; spirit is the nature we receive in the second birth (John 3:5–6). When we trust Christ, we become “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4). A Christian has both the old nature (flesh) and the new nature (Spirit) in his life. And what a battle these two natures can wage (Gal. 5:17–23)!” - Excerpt, Be Real (1 John) by Warren W. Wiersbe
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