World evangelism presents difficult issues which must be faced in light of the whole of Scripture. Vital Missions Issues: Examining Challenges and Changes in World Evangelism provides guidance and wisdom from many Godly writers on this valuable subject.
This volume introduces readers to a wide variety of complex, but essential topics for anyone interested in missions work. Covering questions of missions in the bible, a number of chapters present biblical exegesis of passages from Acts, Philippians and other biblical texts. Other chapters ask hard questions about missions, evangelism and Christianity, such as whether or not the bible teaches annihilationism or the final fate of those who never hear the gospel message.
“What is 750,000 miles long, reaches around the world thirty times, and grows twenty times longer each day? Answer: The line of people who are without Christ.” (Page 7)
“Such theocentricity in missions is a rarity, and it sounds almost like a novelty in an anthropocentric society, ecclesiocentric Christendom, and world-revolutionary humanism. It should find a welcome echo in the mind and heart of the evangelical who is trained in the Scriptures and who loves the biblical order of priorities.” (Page 10)
“‘The vitality of a local church may be measured by its interest in the evangelization of the world.’” (Page 7)
“Mission begins in God.… Mission is a divine activity springing directly from God’s own nature” (Page 9)
“Third, the church in history has a missionary purpose and is called to be a colaborer with God in proclaiming the gospel among the nations and thus to actualize the purpose of God. Fourth, man is a responsible, moral being and in hearing the gospel man is able to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation if he so wills. Fifth, God is operative in history. The church must be God’s colaborer in history because God’s cause will triumph in history.” (Page 23)