Statement of belief:
What is your opinion of the necessity of the local church's missionary outreach with regard to the nature of the Church and the condition and fate of sinful persons?
I believe that the local church's attitude and response toward missionary outreach is key to identifying the heart beat or spiritual pulse of the local church. The local churches acceptance of this truth of missions is critical to the condition and fate of those who have not accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and savior. The most important question to ask and demand an answer from the local church is if we don't win people to Christ and disciple them to spiritual maturity who will? The answer is simple. No one will. No other group has any invested interest in bringing people to a relationship to God through Jesus Christ and empowerment via the Holy Spirit. Only the body of Christ has been commanded to do so. Matthew 28:19 20
As a worker how will you promote and support the Church with world missions? I would as I have done in the past. I would serve as an ambassador for Christ. I would go on mission trips, support missionaries (of whom I one was), teach and equip the local church to think and live outwardly in regarding the practice of their faith in Jesus Christ. It would begin with our neighborhood and then to the ends of the earth. My heart is that all people will come to a relationship with God. But I know that this will not happen I the church doesn't accept its responsibility and fulfill the great commission.
How would you promote and support a vigorous program of local church evangelism and discipleship? The first thing I would do is I would represent a personal life of prayer and meditation concerning evangelism and discipleship, then I would teach, challenge and equip the people of the local church to pray for God to guide them in ways to serve Him through evangelism and discipleship. I would then take what the Holy Spirit is leading the local church to do and then provide the church with the things that they would need to meet this opportunity. I would finally create an environment of "the only way to fail in evangelism is to never evangelize" in the local church. I believe that God believes in us enough to partner with us so why not believe in ourselves enough to change the world for God?
