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August 2002 index -
Gerry O'Brien
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But what does God actually want us to do? |
Crosslinks
will be 80 years old this year.
Our roots go back way beyond that, but what are your feelings
about mission in the twenty first century?
More important, what do you think are God's feelings about
mission? Being a simple soul, I've always assumed that God is in
favour of mission - and I daresay he might be rather pleased if we
did twice as much of it. But
what does God actually want us to do?
Should we finance only the mission work we can afford?
Or should we go ahead with the mission work we are called to
do, confident that God does not call people into his service without
providing the wherewithal to fund their activities? One
of the most interesting things to emerge from the responses to the
questionnaire that was sent out with the last Crosslinks Magazine
was that faced with a choice of living within our present means or
praying and paying to extend the scope of our activities,
respondents voted by a margin of roughly six to one in favour of
growth. Well
that has implications for all of us.
We have just held a selection conference at which nine
candidates were accepted as mission partners.
Some of them are heading for familiar places like South East
Asia, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa, but others are striking out
in directions which are new to Crosslinks - to places like Serbia
and Togo.
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