As a stimulus and an appeal for greater numbers of missionaries to be raised up various slogans have been put forth.
One such slogan is as follow, “The need is the call.” Another slogan that missions mobilizers often put forward in an effort to recruit new blood is, “You don’t have a call? The call came 2,000 years ago in the form of the Great Commission – what are you waiting for?” Others assert that “everyone should head towards the mission field unless God stops them.”
These slogans highlight the need for personnel. How do these slogans, however, line up with the Biblical evidence concerning the missionary call?
If the missionary call is a special and exclusive divine calling, should we re-cruit for missions? And if so, how?
As David Hesselgrave phrases it, is this a matter of “a call for missionaries or a Divine calling?” In short, is there a conflict between aggressive recruiting for missions and in “waiting on the Divine Call?”
How do we resolve this conflict? And how do we recognize that that the Lord is, in fact, raising up and serve to nurture these? Is enough being done in our circles to do so?
One such slogan is as follow, “The need is the call.” Another slogan that missions mobilizers often put forward in an effort to recruit new blood is, “You don’t have a call? The call came 2,000 years ago in the form of the Great Commission – what are you waiting for?” Others assert that “everyone should head towards the mission field unless God stops them.”
These slogans highlight the need for personnel. How do these slogans, however, line up with the Biblical evidence concerning the missionary call?
If the missionary call is a special and exclusive divine calling, should we re-cruit for missions? And if so, how?
As David Hesselgrave phrases it, is this a matter of “a call for missionaries or a Divine calling?” In short, is there a conflict between aggressive recruiting for missions and in “waiting on the Divine Call?”
How do we resolve this conflict? And how do we recognize that that the Lord is, in fact, raising up and serve to nurture these? Is enough being done in our circles to do so?