The Divine Enterprise of Missions
Overview
The Divine Enterprise of Missions consists of a series of lectures A. T. Pierson delivered to the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in America in New Brunswick, NJ in 1891. His topics include the divine thought, plan, work, spirit, force, fruit, and challenge of missions.
Top Highlights
“The Church must be aroused to this great truth and fact, that both Christ and the world are waiting for disciples, as such, to become heralds of the Gospel and witnesses to Christ; that a few thousand missionaries, scattered through cities and states at home or empires abroad, can never overtake the awful destitution of a thousand million of souls who know not the Gospel. The only hope of the race is that, as in apostolic times, the whole Church shall become a body of evangelists, and every converted soul consider it a necessary part of discipleship to witness to all men that Christ died for all.” (Pages 53–54)
“Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts. Never make the mistake of doubting your beliefs and believing your doubts.’” (Page 38)
“God would have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.’ The salvation is broad enough to cover the sin of all mankind. The rescue is ample for the ruin of the race. How shall the unsaved be reached? Behold again how divinely simple is the thought of God: let every believer become a witness—let every man, who is saved, seek to save. It is no irreverence to say that God’s whole idea of missions may be found, in essence, in that one word, witnessing. The salvation of God is full and free. To accept it freely is immediate justification; to accept it fully is complete sanctification; to witness to it fully and freely is complete service—it is to be a missionary wherever we are.” (Page 27)
“In those very forms of figure our Lord is saying to us that a believer without a witness is worthless as savorless salt, or a rayless lamp. We must get beyond the conception of service to God as a mere help to growth,—it is a condition of life. Salt without saltness is no longer salt. A light without a ray is no longer a light. It is of the nature of the Christian life to witness, and, when there is no witness, is it too much to say, that, logically, there is no life?” (Page 45)
- Title: The Divine Enterprise of Missions
- Author: Arthur Tappan Pierson
- Publisher: Baker & Taylor Co.
- Print Publication Date: 1891
- Logos Release Date: 2012
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Missions
- Resource ID: LLS:DIVENTRMISS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T18:26:15Z