078. What part ought foreign missions to have in the life of the church and the individual b...

What part ought foreign missions to have in the life of the church and the individual believer? A very prominent part. Our Lord’s last command to His disciples was: “Go ye therefore and make disciples of all the nations” (Matthew 28:19). It was in connection with this work that He promised His own personal fellowship. He said that when we did this: “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” If then the individual believer wishes to have personal fellowship with Jesus Christ, he must go into all the world and make disciples of all the nations. He may not be able to go in his own person, but in that case he can go by his gifts and by his prayers. Any Christian who is not deeply interested in foreign missions is not in fellowship with Jesus Christ.

Since a true church is a company of obedient believers, what is true of each believer will be true of the church, with the added power and blessing that issues from cooperation.