Why So Few People Become Missionaries: We Don’t See the Eternal

By sentobannin

II Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. Today in Christianity, our focus is not on the eternal, rather on the temporal. We focus on what we can see and what we need. We look to money, possession, fame, and success and think that is…

Why So Few People Ever Become Missionaries: We Believe God Could Never Use Us!

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II Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him… Most Christians have the mindset that they could never be used of God. There is no way they are good enough or have the talent to be used of God. Yet, the verse above tells us that God is looking around the whole world to find someone…

Why So Few People Become Missionaries: Because We Live Inside a Vacuum

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A major reason so few people give their lives to missions and become missionaries is that churches are inside of a vacuum. As in, they never hear about missions, the need to go or the command to go. This is because there is never any preaching on God’s desire for the whole world to be saved. We spend more time on how to make our individual people a better person or a better Christian, but…

Why So Few People Become Missionaries: It is Outside Our Comfort Zone

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Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service A big problem in Christianity today is that we get this mindset about what Christianity is. We think we are saved to live a comfortable, Christian life, that God would never want us to go outside of our comforts and that He saved us to live the life…