The Mission

 "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."  John 1:5

Five days ago, a Team of ten members from our church spent over seventeen hours of airtime to help our Missionary serving in Berlin, Germany.  The Mission:  To pass out fifteen thousand John/Romans.  In their first two days, they walked over twenty-five miles and passed out over four thousand copies of these two books from God's Word each day.

Exhausting, but worth it.

The wife of our missionary sent me a text this morning and she wrote:  ""As I read this passage today, I thought of all the people who will just throw the John/Romans away.  They have been given light and most will disregard it."

It's true.  All the money, effort, sweat and hard work going into distributing these John/Romans, out of fifteen thousand copies of this book, perhaps only one will read what they were given; perhaps only one will accept Christ as their personal Lord and Saviour.  Only one.

Was it worth it?

YES!

The wife of our missionary went on to say, "But it doesn't matter how many rejects it, we are to keep shining the light.  Jesus came and died even though He knew few would follow Him.  What a gracious Saviour we serve!"

My husband is part of this Team, and he said the same thing.  As exhausting as this work has been, if only one will receive Christ, it will be worth it all!

Christ would have died for only one...

    I had to ask myself, 'What am I willing to do to bring one soul to Christ?'

        What would you be willing to do?...

            But that's just me!

The Mission

Steve Green 1989

Jon Mohr/John Randall Dennis 

There's a call going out

across the land in every nation

A call to those who swear allegiance to the cross of Christ

A call to true humility, to live our lives responsibly

To deepen our devotion to the cross at any price

Let us then be sober, moving only in the Spirit

As aliens and strangers in a hostile foreign land

The message we're proclaiming is repentance and forgiveness

The offer of salvation to a dying race of man.

Chorus:

To love the Lord our God is the heartbeat of our mission

The spring from which our service overflows

Across the street or around the world

The mission's still the same

Proclaim and live the Truth 

in Jesus' name

As a candle is consumed by the passion of the flame

Spilling light unsparingly 

throughout a darkened room

Let us burn to know Him deeper

Then our service flaming bright

Will radiate his passions

And blaze with holy light.

Chorus