The Fundamentals edited by R. A. Torrey (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read Chapter 19 (What missionary motives should prevail?).
Today we continue learning about missions.
Frost's main task is to teach us the different motives for mission. Thus we are told we should do mission work because of:
(i) obedience to God's command;
(ii) compassion for the lost;
(iii) the desire for the return of Christ.
But compassion should indeed be a motivation for missionary work: 'And thus this same Christ is ever looking down from heaven's throne, the same heart is ever feeling its weight of compassionate woe, and the same voice is ever pleading with His disciples to see as He sees and to feel as He feels. This then is the second motive which God sets "before Christians, namely, to enter into Christ's compassion for the lost souls and lives of men, and thus to be moved as He was moved, and to be constrained to do as He did.'
If we have the same compassion as Christ for the lost, we will definitely try and seek them like he did.
Now it's your turn
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