ROMANS 15:14-33. PAULS PASSIONATE MINISTRY FOR THE CHURCH TO EMULATE.
WE CAN EASILY FORGET THAT THE BOOK OF ROMANS WE ARE GOING THROUGH IS A PERSONAL LETTER TO THE CHURCH IN ROME. AS WE HAVE TRAVELLED THROUGH THE BOOK OF ROMANS WE HAVE SEEN IT IS FULL OF DEEP THEOLOGICAL AND DOCTRINAL TRUTHS: THE DEPRAVITY OF HUMANITY – THE ATONEMENT (PROPITIATION)- JUSTIFICATION THROUGH FAITH – THE HOLY SPIRIT - LAW AND CHRIST – LAW AND - THE PROCESS OF SANCTIFICATION- GLORIFICATION – GODS PURPOSES IN ELECTION FOR JEW AND GENTILE. WE HAVE SEEN OUR RESPONSIBILITIES IN SOCIETY AND IN THE LOCAL CHURCH. GODS WORD IS LAID DOWN FOR US NOT AS A TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT ADVICE – OR OPEN FOR DISCUSSION OR CHANGE - BUT FOR THE CHURCHES INSTRUCTION AND APPLICATION.
WHAT ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT? THE ARTS, THE ENVIRONMENT, POLITICS, HUMAN RIGHTS, THE SCIENCES, WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE YOU WILL EXERT A LOT OF TIME, ENERGY AND MONEY SOMEONE COULD POUR THEIR WHOLE LIVES INTO IT AND YOU WILL MOST PROBABLY KNOW ALL THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT IT AND YOU WILL BE PASSIONATE ABOUT SHARING IT WITH OTHERS. WHAT ABOUT MINISTRY ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT IT? GODS WORD SHARES WITH US TODAY, PAULS PASSIONATE MINISTRY: ROMANS 15:14 -33
THIS PART OF THE LETTER IS VERY PERSONAL IN NATURE. PAUL ADDRESSES HIMSELF REFERRING TO HIS APOSTOLIC MINISTRY TO THE GENTILES V16. THIS MORNING WE WILL SEE SOMETHING OF PAUL’S PASSIONATE MINISTRY.
TO MINISTER: TO SERVE OR SERVANT - BOND SLAVE. (ROM 1:1) I BELIEVE THIS PASSIONATE MINISTRY SHOWN TO US THROUGH THE APOSTLE PAUL CAN BE THE BUILDING BLOCKS FOR A PASSIONATE MINISTRY IN THE LOCAL CHURCH TO EMULATE. ONE OF WHICH IS DEEPLY BIBLICAL AND CHRIST CENTRED.
RECAP: PAST CHARACTER AND CONVERSION. LET US REMEMBER HOW PAUL GOT WHERE HE WAS?
(PHI. 3:4-6) PREVIOUSLY A STRICT JEW FROM THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN, CIRCUMCISED ON THE 8TH DAY, HE HAD A GREAT EDUCATION TAUGHT UNDER RABBI GAMIEAL HE WAS SET APART FOR GREATNESS IN JEWISH CIRCLES. YET ON HIS WAY TO PERSECUTE CHRISTIANS ON THE RD TO DAMASCUS HE WAS SET APART BY GOD TO PREACH TO THE GENTILES (ACTS 9 1- 16) HE HAD AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE RISEN CHRIST AND WAS CONVERTED. AND THE DYNAMICS OF HIS WHOLE LIFE CHANGED, NO LONGER SERVING HIS STRICT RELIGIOUS LAWS AND TRADITIONS BUT ENTERING INTO THE GRACE OF GOD. (V15-16)
THE REASON I AM UNPACKING THIS BACKGROUND IS THAT FOR ANYBODY TO ENTER INTO MINISTRY OF GOD THEY FIRST AND FOREMOST MUST BE CONVERTED. THE MINISTRY OF GOD IS NOT A VOCATION THAT ONE CHOOSES LIKE BECOMING A DOCTOR OR LAWYER, WHERE ONE TRAINS FOR SUCH A POSITION, ALTHOUGH THAT DOES HAPPEN TO THE DETERMENT OF THE CHURCH. BUT IT IS A CALLING OF GOD! BEING SET APART FOR HIS PURPOSES (ROM 1:1,15:15-16) THIS IS WHAT PAUL EXPERIENCED, IT’S A VITAL INGREDIENT FOR ANY MINISTER (BROADER SENSE EVERY CHRISTIAN IS A MINISTER) BUT HERE SPECIFICALLY REFERRING TO THOSE WHO ARE GIVEN TO THE CHURCH TO EQUIP THE SAINTS FOR MINISTRY (EPH 4:9 – 13).
A PERSON MAY BE WELL EDUCATED, HAVE GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS, A GREAT PERSONALITY, A WHIZZ AT ADMINISTRATION GREAT PEOPLES PERSON, BUT ARE THEY CALLED BY GOD TO MINISTER IN THE LOCAL CHURCH? THIS IS OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE. OR DO THEY JUST HAVE SOME RELIGIOUS INCLINATIONS JUST LIKE A SOMEONE FROM ANY OTHER RELIGION?
PAUL CERTAINLY KNEW OF RELIGIOUS INCLINATIONS (HE HAD IT IN ABUNDANCE) THEN HE ENCOUNTERED THE GRACE OF GOD, TO BE A MINISTER...
DO YOU KNOW THIS GRACE? HAVE YOU ENTERED OUT OF A RELIGION INTO A RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST? HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED THIS GRACE OF GOD TO BE A SERVANT OF GOD IN YOUR OWN LIFE?
PAUL HAD A NEW OVERRIDING PASSION TO HIS MINISTRY NO LONGER WAS IT SET UPON HIS PERSONAL BIRTH RIGHT - VOCATION AND RELIGIOUS INCLINATIONS AS A RELIGIOUS JEW, BUT IT WAS CENTRED UPON HIS GOD AND SAVIOUR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST THIS WAS PAULS PASSION.
• COUNT NIKOLAUS LUDWIG VON ZINZENDORF WHO FOUNDED THE MORAVIANS SAID “I HAVE BUT ONE PASSION; IT IS HE, HE ONLY.”
1. PAULS PASSION TO TEACH THE CHURCH. v14 -16 READ VERSES
PAUL WAS AN APOSTLE ONE WHO HAD DIRECTLY SEEN THE RISEN LORD AND BEEN COMMISSIONED BY HIM WITH APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY TO PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL INVOLVING PLANTING CHURCHES AND THEN TEACHING THEM THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL. PAUL’S AUTHORITY IS GOD GIVEN V15 -16 HE SPEAKS OF THE GRACE GOD GAVE HIM TO BE A MINISTER.
HE WAS A WRITER OF 13 NT BOOKS. (LEAVING HEBREWS OUT) GOD USED PAUL TO IMPART HIS GOSPEL TO US – SO THEIR IS NO BETTER PERSON QUALIFIED THAN PAUL HIMSELF TO TEACH AND TRAIN THE CHURCHES BECAUSE IT IS COMING FROM GOD. ROMANS WE HAVE SEEN THROUGH THE MONTHS ARE RICH WITH TEACHING MATERIAL FOR THE CHRISTIAN TO GROW AND MATURE IN THEIR FAITH. RIGHT THROUGH THE BOOK OF ROMANS – WE SEE PAULS PASSION TO TEACH IMPARTING CHRISTIAN TRUTH. PAUL WAS A PASTOR TEACHER WHO CARED FOR GODS CHURCH, HIS TEACHING ENABLED CHURCHES TO GROW AND AVOID ERROR:
THIS IS A REAL PASTORS HEART WARNING THE FLOCK FROM DANGER! ROM 16: 17 I URGE YOU, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, TO WATCH OUT FOR THOSE WHO CAUSE DIVISIONS AND PUT OBSTACLES IN YOUR WAY THAT ARE CONTRARY TO THE TEACHING YOU HAVE LEARNED . ERROR ABOUNDED LATE 1ST CENTURY AND IT ABOUNDS STILL TODAY AND THAT’S WHY. V15 HE TALKS ABOUT WRITING BOLDLY ON SOME POINTS.
ERROR CAN SO EASILY SLIP INTO CHURCH. PAUL WARNS YOUNG TIMOTHY OF SELF APPOINTED TEACHERS 1 TIM 1:7 THEY WANT TO BE TEACHERS OF THE LAW, BUT THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT OR WHAT THEY SO CONFIDENTLY AFFIRM.
IMAGINE JUST GETTING A TEACHER WHO PICKS AND CHOOSES WITH THE SCRIPTURES - DISTORTING THE WORD - TO FORGET THE LESSONS OF HISTORY – OUR CHURCH FATHERS – IN COMBATING ERROR (REFORMATION)- TO MINIMISE THE TEACHINGS OF PAUL – AND JUST CONSIDER THE TEACHING OF JESUS – SOUNDS SPIRITUAL DOESN’T IT, BUT I’VE HEARD IT! - AND IT’S HAPPENING IN A CHURCH NEAR YOU!
THE NT TEACHING - ISN’T POLITICALLY CORRECT TODAY – SOME TEACHERS DISTORT IT – TO SUIT THE MASSES EX 32:1-5 SIMULATED THE GOLDEN CALF INTO WORSHIP OF THE LORD AND AARON GAVE IT TO THEM.
SO TODAY TEACHERS GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT.... WHEN IT COMES TO ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE CHURCH AND FAMILY - ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLES – WORLD RELIGIONS - PROSELYTISING - THE CORE GOSPEL MESSAGE - (BLANKET STATEMENT - JESUS LOVES YOU) WITHOUT ANY MENTION TO OUR ALIENATION FROM GOD BECAUSE OF SIN - REPENTANCE – NEW BIRTH - JUDGEMENT - HELL - SALVATION THROUGH CHRIST ALONE – AND NOT THE WORKS OR CHURCH..... JAM. 3:1
BUT THESE ARE NOT SIMPLY TEACHINGS OF PAUL TO BE SEPARATED FROM THE REST OF THE BIBLE - BUT THE TEACHING OF GOD. AND IF PEOPLE HAVE ISSUES WITH THE WRITINGS OF PAUL FOUND IN THE BIBLE – IT’S NOT WITH PAUL THEY NEED TO TAKE ISSUE WITH BUT THE DIVINE AUTHOR HIMSELF. 2TIM3:16 ALL SCRIPTURE IS GOD BREATHED.
THE APOSTLE PETER CONFIRMS THIS THOUGHT OF PEOPLES RELUCTANCE TO ACCEPT HIS TEACHING: 2PET 3:15 BEAR IN MIND THAT OUR LORDS PATIENCE MEANS SALVATION, OUR DEAR BROTHER PAUL ALSO WROTE YOU WITH THE WISDOM THAT GOD GAVE HIM. 16 HE WRITES THE SAME IN ALL HIS LETTERS, SPEAKING IN THEM OF THESE MATTERS. HIS LETTERS CONTAIN SOME THINGS WHICH ARE HARD TO UNDERSTAND, WHICH IGNORANT AND UNSTABLE PEOPLE DISTORT AS THEY DO THE OTHER SCRIPTURES TO THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION WE HAVE TO ALLOW GODS WORD TO BE APPLIED TO OUR LIVES AND TO THE GOVERNING OF THE LOCAL CHURCH, NOT OUR VIEWS AND THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS.
V14 -15 A GOOD REPORTS: PAUL IS CONVINCED – FULL OF GOODNESS - FILLED WITH KNOWLEDGE - COMPETENT TO INSTRUCT ONE ANOTHER V15 YET HE DESIRES TO REMIND THEM OF THESE GOSPEL TRUTHS THROUGHOUT THE BOOK OF ROMANS.... THIS IS PAUL’S MINISTRY.... AND SO IT IS A PASTOR TEACHERS MINISTRY TO TEACH AND TRAIN IN THE TRUTHS OF GODS WORD. SO THAT WE ALL MIGHT BE FILLED WITH THIS KNOWLEDGE AND BECOME COMPETENT TO INSTRUCT OTHERS IN THE GOSPEL BASICS. FOR THIS TO TAKE PLACE WE MUST BE PREPARED TO DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING:
1. AN ACCEPTANCE TO GODS ABSOLUTES. (CURRENT WORLDVIEW NO ABSOLUTES)
2. SUBORDINATION OF ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS TO GODS ABSOLUTES. (PLEASE YOURSELF)
3. AN APPLICATION OF TRUTH RECEIVED TO LIFE EXPERIENCES. (NOT A CONTRADICTION)
2. PASSION TO EVANGELISE THE LOST GENTILES. V16 -19.
IF EARLIER PAUL WANTED US TO BE EXAMINING OURSELVES INSIDE TO WHAT WE BELIEVE, HERE HE WANTS US TO LOOK OUTSIDE OF OURSELVES TO AN EXPLORATION OF SHARING THE GOSPEL WITH OTHERS.
PAULS PASSION WAS NOT ONLY TO TEACH BELIEVERS BUT TO EVANGELISE UNBELIEVERS IN PARTICULAR GENTILES – IT INVOLVED THE PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL THE SAVING MESSAGE TO A GENTILE PAGAN WORLD. HE DOESN’T WANT TO GLORY IN ANYTHING ELSE, BUT HIS SERVICE TO GOD, IN LEADING THE GENTILES TO OBEY GOD. THROUGH THE PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL V17 -18.
V16 GOD GIVEN PRIESTLY DUTY TO PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL. AND OURS MATT 28:19
A) MANY TODAY SAY THIS IS OLD HAT YOU CANT DO THIS ANYMORE, WE HAVE TO BECOME FRIENDS, WE HAVE TO WIN THEIR CONFIDENCE FIRST – I BELIEVE WE HAVE TO PREACH THE GOSPEL WITH PASSION, IT HAS TO COME FROM HERE (POINTING TO THE HEART ROM 1:9) IF WE ARE BOTHERED ABOUT THE ETERNAL STATE OF OTHERS? OR ARE WE ASHAMED TO EVEN SHARE THE GOSPEL AVOIDING SIN, JUDGEMENT AND HELL. SO MANY PEOPLE ONLY SHARE HALF A GOSPEL, (GOD LOVES YOU) THEY SHARE HALF THE TRUTH AND IN SO DOING THEY ARE DECEIVING THE MASSES AND MAKING DUPED DISCIPLES, WHO KNOW NOTHING OF SIN – JUDGEMENT AND REPENTANCE AND TRUE CONVERSION .
PAUL COULD SAY, ROM 1:16 I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL FOR IT IS THE POWER OF GOD UNTO SALVATION TO EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES.
B) PAUL PROCLAIMED THE GOSPEL BY WHAT HE HAS SAID, BUT ALSO BY WHAT HE HAD DONE. AND THIS IS IN REFERENCE NOT ONLY HIS ACTIONS BACKING UP HIS WORDS, WHICH OF COURSE DO HAVE AN IMPACT UPON OTHERS. AFTER ALL IF OUR LIVES DO NOT BACK UP OUR WORDS WE ARE HYPOCRITES. HOW OFTEN HAVE YOU HEARD OF ANOTHER PERSONS CONVERSION THROUGH THE ACTIONS/LIFE OF A BELIEVER?
C) BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, I THINK PAUL IS REFERRING TO WHAT ACCOMPANIED HIS PREACHING... V19 BY THE POWER OF SIGNS AND WONDERS AND WHO ACCOMPANIED HIS PREACHING THROUGH THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD V19. PAUL FULLY PROCLAIMED THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.
HOW WE NEED A TRUE REVIVAL OF GODS SPIRIT (A TRUE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT BRINGING CONVICTION – REPENTANCE AND FAITH NOT THE FAKE IMITATIONS WE SEE TODAY)
ARE WE PASSIONATE ABOUT EVANGELISING THE LOST? AS A CHURCH THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF OUR FUNDAMENTAL GOALS TO REACH OUT AND EVANGELISE OTHERS? HAS WESTERN CHRISTIANITY LOST ITS HEART – CONSUMMERISED - RE– BRANDED –INTO A ‘VERY PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS?’
WHEN DWIGHT L. MOODY WAS IN LONDON DURING ONE OF HIS FAMOUS EVANGELISTIC TOURS, SEVERAL BRITISH CLERGYMEN VISITED HIM. THEY WANTED TO KNOW HOW AND WHY THIS POORLY EDUCATED AMERICAN WAS SO EFFECTIVE IN WINNING THRONGS OF PEOPLE TO CHRIST. MOODY TOOK THE THREE MEN TO THE WINDOW OF HIS HOTEL ROOM AND ASKED EACH IN TURN WHAT HE SAW. ONE BY ONE, THE MEN DESCRIBED THE PEOPLE IN THE PARK BELOW. THEN MOODY LOOKED OUT THE WINDOW WITH TEARS ROLLING DOWN HIS CHEEKS. “WHAT DO YOU SEE, MR. MOODY?” ASKED ONE OF THE MEN.
“I SEE COUNTLESS THOUSANDS OF SOULS THAT WILL ONE DAY SPEND ETERNITY IN HELL IF THEY DO NOT FIND THE SAVIOUR.”
OBVIOUSLY, D. L. MOODY SAW PEOPLE DIFFERENTLY THAN THE AVERAGE OBSERVER DOES. AND BECAUSE HE SAW ETERNAL SOULS WHERE OTHERS SAW ONLY PEOPLE STROLLING IN A PARK, MOODY APPROACHED LIFE WITH A DIFFERENT AGENDA. TODAY IN THE WORD, FEBRUARY 1, 1997, P. 6
OUR CHURCHES AGENDA, ‘IS TO SEE PEOPLE DIFFERENTLY’ TO SEE THEM AS LOST SOULS, PEOPLE WHO ARE HELL BOUND AND NEED A SAVIOUR AND LORD. FRIENDS ON MARCH 1ST AFTER THE SERVICE WE ARE HAVING A PLANNING MEETING TO IMPLEMENT EVANGELISM FOR THE COMING YEAR, COME AND SHARE THE PASSION FOR EVANGELISM AND MAKE IT A REALITY. LET’S START THE EXPLORATION OF SHARING THE TRUE GOSPEL WITH THIS COMMUNITY.
V17 PAUL GLORIED IN HIS SERVICE TO GOD AS THESE GENTILE CONVERTS BECAME AN OFFERING TO GOD......
3. PAULS PASSION FOR THE UNREACHED WORLD. V 19 – 22
THIS CHURCH THAT PAUL IS WRITING TOO, PAUL HAD NEVER SEEN, HE HAD PLANNED TO SEE THE CHURCH IN ROME, HE HAD LONGED FOR YEARS IN FACT V23 HE PLANNED TO SEE THEM ON HIS WAY TO SPAIN V24 .
WHAT HAD KEPT HIM AWAY? V20 IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY AMBITION TO PREACH CHRIST WHERE HE IS NOT KNOWN. PAUL HAD A PASSION FOR AN UNREACHED WORLD....... ACTS: 1:8 BUT YOU WILL RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES ON YOU; AND YOU WILL BE MY WITNESSES IN JERUSALEM, AND IN ALL JUDEA AND SAMARIA, AND TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH."
HENCE PAUL AND OTHERS TRAVELLED EXTENSIVELY AROUND ASIA MINOR AND INTO EUROPE WITH FOUR MISSIONARY TRIPS TOTALLING 13,950 MILES, PLANTING NEW CHURCHES IN PLACES : LIKE CYPRUS , ANTIOCH, CORINTH, ICONIUM, LYSTRA, MACEDONIA AND GREECE, PHILIPPI , THESSALONICA, BEREA , ATHENS, CORINTH , TROAS, EPHESUS AND EVENTUALLY REACHING ROME UNDER HOUSE ARREST HE WOULD MEET HIS BELOVED BROTHER/SISTERS IN ROME.
TO REACH THE UNREACHED IS OUR LORDS PASSION! DID HE NOT COME FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH? ISN’T IT HIS COMMAND FOR US? MATT 28: 18 -19. BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD WILL THERE NOT BE REV7:9 A GREAT MULTITUDES THAT NO ONE COULD COUNT, FROM EVERY NATION, TRIBE, PEOPLE AND LANGUAGE STANDING BEFORE THE THRONE AND IN FRONT OF THE LAMB. IF SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, WILL GOD DO IT WITHOUT US? NO WITH US WE ARE HIS INSTRUMENTS WE ARE THE MEANS OF SHARING THIS NEWS.
A) WE MUST PRAY TO THE LORD OF THE HARVEST TO SEND OUT MISSIONARIES AROUND OUR WORLD TO GO INTO PLACES WHERE CHRIST IS NOT KNOWN IN OUR WORLD. TO THOSE REMOTE AND DIFFICULT PARTS AND WE MUST PRAY AND SUPPORT THEM AND SEND THEM EVEN FROM HERE.
B) BUT ALSO WE OURSELVES MUST BE PREPARED TO HEAR HIS VOICE. HE MAY BE CALLING YOU SPECIFICALLY TO GO TO ANOTHER PART OF THE WORLD TO REACH THE UNREACHED.
REACHING THE UNREACHED: IN THE 18TH CENTURY BARTON IN THE BEANS CHAPEL IN LECIESTERSHIRE SENT OUT SO MANY MISSIONARIES – THAT THE INDIAN PEOPLE BEING REACHED SPOKE OF BARTON IN THE BEANS BEING A HUGE CITY LIKE LONDON WHEN IN FACT IT WAS A SMALL VILLAGE WITH A COUPLE OF HUNDRED RESIDENTS AND EVEN LESS CHRISTIANS.
FACING RESISTANCE TO GO IN MAY 1792 WILLIAM CAREY ADDRESSED THE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN REGARD TO MISSIONARY ENDEAVOUR – HE OVERCAME GREAT RESISTANCE TO MISSION – IN A SERMON ADDRESS HE SAID, “EXPECT GREAT THINGS FROM GOD AND ATTEMPT GREAT THINGS FOR GOD.” WILLIAM CAREY WAS A MAN WHO PRACTICED WHAT HE PREACHED HE OVERCAME RESISTANCE TO MISSIONARY ENDEAVOUR AND FOUNDED THE PARTICULAR BAPTIST SOCIETY – HE HE WENT OUT TO THE LOST OF INDIA.... TODAY HE IS CALLED THE FATHER OF MODERN MISSION
C) MAYBE YOUR CALL IS NOT TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD AND LETS BE HONEST (YOU ONLY NEED TO GO TO BELGRAVE –EVINGTON – HIGH FIELDS TO SEE PEOPLE FROM EVERY TRIBE AND NATION). EVEN UK NATIONALS ARE ILLITERATE WHEN IT COMES TO THE GOSPEL – THEY’VE NEVER HEARD IT, THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY WHERE CHRIST IS NOT KNOWN? ... CHILDREN ARE COMING OUT OF OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM WITH NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE GOSPEL. THEY ARE TAUGHT A PLETHORA OF RELIGIONS AND ARE LEFT CONFUSED – THEY ARE TAUGHT THEY HAVE EVOLVED AND THERE IS NO GOD. ATTENDANCES AT CHURCHES ARE DIMINISHING BECAUSE ALL THEY HAVE EXPERIENCED IS A DEAD RELIGION WITH NO MESSAGE.
AS THE ATHEIST BUS LOGO IN LONDON RECENTLY SAID, “THE PROBABLY IS NO GOD. NOW STOP WORRYING AND ENJOY YOUR LIFE.”
FRIENDS SHOULDN’T IT BE OUR PASSION TO GO TO AN UNREACHED WORLD WITH THE GOSPEL? THE RACE HAS BEGUN; THE BATON HAS BEEN PASSED TO US... THE FINISH LINE IS IN SIGHT - LET’S RUN AND BE PASSIONATE IN REACHING THOSE WHO HAVE NOT HEARD.
