The Key to the Missionary's Message  [return to devotional list]

"For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified."

(1 Corinthians 2:2)

The key to the missionary's message is Jesus Christ and His crucifixion. Look at other aspects of Christ's work such as healing, sanctifying, and empowering, and you will see that there is nothing limitless about them.

But - "For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God" - that is limitless (Romans 6:10). The missionary's message is the limitless and universal importance of Christ who died for everyone.

The missionary's message is not nationalistic, favoring nations or individuals; it is "for all." When the Holy Spirit comes into me, He does not consider my partialities or preferences; He simply brings me into oneness with the Lord.

A missionary is someone who is bound by marriage to the stated mission and purpose of God in Christ. He is not to proclaim his own point of view, but only to proclaim Jesus Christ. It is easier to belong to a faction that simply tells what Jesus Christ has done for me, and easier to become a devotee of divine healing, or a special type of doctrine such as the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

But Paul did not say, "Woe is me if I do not preach what Christ has done for me," but, "... woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!" (1 Corinthians 9:16)
 

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