*DAILY DEW 29/AUGUST/2022*
*Sending Missionaries Well*
_Key Bible Text:_
*As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.* (Acts 13:2 (KJV))
_Bible Insight:_
In 1987, a sequence of thought from one of the shortest books of the Bible grabbed hold of me and never let me go. A veteran missionary serving in Mexico said to me in passing, “There is a big difference between a church that has missionaries and a church that sends missionaries.†As a young missions pastor, I drank this comment in, wanting to know more. A short time later, I read in my New American Standard Bible,
*You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God. For they went out for the sake of the Name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles. Therefore we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers with the truth. (3 John 6–8 NASB)*
On my fortieth anniversary as a pastor, on August 1, 2020, Pastor John Piper prayed the commissioning prayer as my wife, Julie, and I joined the ranks of the “goers.†After helping to send some of the dearest people I know to some of the most remote places on earth, I am now one of the church’s “sent ones,†training current and future pastors in Cameroon to be both goers and senders in the greatest cause of the universe. I have been a happy sender, and now am a happy goer, backed up by a church who has sent me in a manner worthy of God.
The main point of the passage in 3 John relates to this ministry of sending. You can see it in verse 6: “You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.†I see three important aspects of sending in this passage: (1) the value of sending, (2) the mandate of sending, and (3) the manner of sending.
_MEDITATION:_
*"A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation." — Ted Engstrom*
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