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God's frontiersmen are those who t^ke the|-Gospgl whê ^
it has never before reached. They ai^ not (^nfln^^d to ^ne ^

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Talk to Dean Ca
the eipc struggle of Roman Catholic njissionaries An nor^thei
Mexico. When the Conquistadors could^ not pajcify The
country with military might, these frontiersmen j^cified
it with the Gospel. Talk to some of ^the Moravian-bretl^ren !
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who were patt of one of the greatest missionary movemei^ts
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Talk through history to men of evei^ theological
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and religious persuasion, who before and underneath their
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own interpretations of Scripture bellêved in the authoiîty '
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of the Word of God and in the personal presence of the poly*
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Spirit and in the need of a lost worl^d and s0 in the n^me of
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were making His appeal through us. \Je implo:re you on (grist's
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behalf: be reconciled to God." II dorinthlians
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Jê regions beyondthat's the plsjce for frontiersman.

And these "regions beyond" might be as close
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fence or as far away as the other sic(e of th e
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One of God's frontiersmen spoke recently at San Jose Bible
College. He Was a professor at a unijversity

of few Americans who can speak the majority
in Pakistan, one
language o^
Pakistan. Through his sharing Christ, 16 chiurches werej for^d.

Then he was forced out by communists..
But G od opened another
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Brothers and sisters, God's frontiersmen
;o all the ffay
from Peter on Pentecost to Paul preacjiing on Mars;Hill
this man sharing through university c,las8rooBs iniPakisfan
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to you who are somewhere out in the wprld pr eaching the,
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unsearchable riches of God.
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The perilous world situation in whjLch we .ive is alwpys

part of the Christian panorama.
Our ândate is to becofie
1U 'rontiersmen with the news of God.
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everywhere and we are to meet man's nêds. Until the hpur
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of death or the moment of Christ's coiping, wi: are ;engag^d
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;rom his self-destructive decisions tljiat have separated,him
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learts, which remains forever void anf unful illed; unti^
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Our frontier is the unexplored space of; the Iûman
We are not so much interested in gôgraph^
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>lercing the dark caverns of unbelief, of rel elliop, of,
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defeated death and sin forever. The bhurch nay kppw solne H
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tools are the credible record of men Who wal ced with thle
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And we need a life style that bonfirmp thi$ convic-
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And I like Paul's View
The faith life is the first essential for the frontifersI
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the hearts and minds of men.
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of the cross in history, 2ê mind of| Christ
of^ God, etching His design into the hjiman exierience whpn
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And surrender is freedom. We are jiot asking enough pf
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Christians. We are preaching too easy a Cos>el of surrender
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for the frontiersmen. SHkxixtktidc Thp world is waiting, for
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a challenge.-^ê time is right for up to sa;
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pie, "Give it all up. Then let the Hply Spi "it of God
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The way of frontiersmen is also sacrifice which logically
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follows surrender. When my will is h|.s I be|;in to- achieve
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1 servant's heart. The Scriptures say that j; new heart,is
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:reated in me when it is completely tyned to God's; will^
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:his is my new birth which is symbolized in i:he Gospel l}y
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repentance and baptisma change of m^nd and a transactxfal
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Spirit of God is to put off the gld and put on the ,new.
What do you sacrifice? Everything^ Then
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A nice thing about being a bondservan? of Jesus cfirist ?s
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Men need a pattern to follow, Christ was th 3 One Whom |che i
Father used as the perfect sacrifice when He lifted Him| up
Finally, the way of the frontiersmen is t
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between heaven and earth to raise us |to the glory i realm'. The
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We need frontiersmen who are ready

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Recruitment is the most crucial ajêa
ia ipissions
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the moment. The missions thrust of ê golden 25 year^

from 1950 to 1975 is over. During t|at period begin- ^
ning shortly after World War II, our|missiouary movemejit
grew from 46 missionaries to about lioo, wi':h about 656
of those serving overseas.
But during
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slowed.
The drop has been alarming.' And the decrease--
those returAing from the fieldis greater :han the
increase at the present time. For five years we have|

been on a plateau. If we do not get|off th:.s plateau|
the Inevitable result will be decline.
On some fields that I have visited in this last five

years I have been told that unless we get a
new wave
of young missionaries we. will soon be finis led

mission force there.
Why?
Because all the
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missionaries
are Veterans; even the younger ones |iave bem there

ten or 15 years.
These countries aren't receiving
miss.ion efforts are

new missionaries.
The few fields where
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highly productive have been widely publicized and

these are receiving the largest flow of rec ruits,
Some defeatists among us say that^we already have
all the missionaries we can support.

|That's not true,
1975 was our best year in missions, ' We gave a little
over $3 million that year.
That sounds pre :ty good
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until it is figured on a/per capitytasis.

to the statistics in the Direetorv
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We're capable of much more than that?
The sad truth is that about 20% of

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recruits.
That, too, has got to chaAge.
Rocruiting ii
the future of the church.
Our Lord irecruit^d 12 men bAI
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public discourses. Then He trained them and commissioAed

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still others (II Timothy 2:2).
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must get on with it, where are we going to l>egin? I will

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tian service camps, the Bible collegAs, and

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recruiting situations), Christian seirvice camps producA

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the smallest percentage of mission rAcruitsl
A number'
of factors are responsible for this.'

One of these factors is that in the last few years '
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losing their kids when they get to jfinior of senior
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Closely connected with this is thit in our Christiaii

service camps we are not getting any'resultn because
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we are not asking for any. Jesus petsonalP^ asked men

to become His disciples. He invited'them in the
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said, "Come after Me and I will make'you fijshers of

men". He also said, "Leave everythihg and follow Me".'
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recruited them to begin a training ptocess.
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About the only foll'ow-up most camps
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the Sunday night after they return, gnd thaj's it until
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is not connected with church at all., Some kids are
baptized at camp and never become members o" the local
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That is a disgrace before Gpd
Fifth, there is little specific challenge to missiop

service.
Too many times I've heard, "We've got Joe
Blow coming in to do the missions thtng,ut you know
he isn't a preacher.
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the dormitory and herd a bunch of ki^s. Then we give
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him one class, probably at the most (îsadvaiitageous
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on missionary giving. We consider tl|at the
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know any better way to become a cata|.ytic agent to get^

recruiting started again than to talk about our
failures and then to offer some suggestions for succes^

I believe that effective change can Ipe produced, even
in the Christian service camp.
Camp directors need to think abouf: missiins and
ministerial recruitment as the curriculum for camp is

being planned. A coordinated prograî bejinuing with
juniors and going through high schooj. and c<llege aged
camp weeks is ideal. Classes don't Aave to be named
these concepts must
"missions" or "ministerial recruitment," bu : l:kKyxBHsl|
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movement was to get kids involved in^Christian service^
We settled for anything from leading'a youth group to
teaching a Sunday school class to hoj.dlng a prayer

meeting to becoming a fulltime preacAer or iiissionary.
We must get back to the basics that âde this movement|
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great.
The trend away from recruitment c^n be ruirersed, buj:
it is up to the church leadership an^ the c.imp directors

Recruiting ought to be one of our prime des Ires in our
camps. Kids ought to know tkat when^they go to camp t^

expect that someone will talk to them about the
possibility of their entering some kind of Christian

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The great need in the camp is for,pprogressive Bibli|jal

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knowledge and for evangelistic skill^tool.ng the kid^

up for witnessing.
Several years ago I wen : to an
unusual canqs in New Mexico. The des|.gn of ;his camp

was absolutely unique.
The kids were taugh : the four
spiritual laws that Bill Bright taugjit through Campus

Crusade, There were about 70 kids iiji camp :hat week.
On Friday we took them into Las Vegas, New Mexico, and
turned them loose. They only had 65|conver:s that

afternoon.
The kids came back from town and we couldn
get them to bed before 2:0(j4.m. They were holding a

prayer meeting and sharing the great things that God
had done.
What were the results?
San Jose Bible College is a long way froii that camp
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but the next year we got 13 recruits^from
there, ^
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went to Manhattan, Pacific, Dallas, and Midwest.
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got a high degree of return from fouy days of concen
trated teaching and one afternoon of|perfoniance. The

kids saw that they could do it.
What happened to the 65 people? ôme go : into churches;

some didn't. That always happens, "hiose wlio were fol
lowed up started a Bible study groupj

This was a Christian service campl Nobody even
remembered who won the team contest-J-I'm no : even sure

we had any.
But they sure got excited aboui: studying
the Bible and reading and getting into littEe groups
to pray. It is one of the most tremendous camps I've

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service must be stressed.
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should be emphasized.
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present the story of his mission invcilvement. He should
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tell the need, the progress, the hardships,
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Sending their names and addresses to^colleges, writing^
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with their commitments, letting them'know they can call
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Our churches are declining. We have reaehed a plateau in missicns

We have got to start again the forces of recruitment,
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following article is the fir^t of t^ree messages on recruiting delivered by

Woodrow Phillips at the 29th Nationaf Missionary Convefition in Dodj;e
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Mr. Phillips's other two messages, "feecruit:.ng in the feible Collegr" and
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major support. In other words, I'm "talking about those who become
professionals. During the 37 years 'that I ve been a preacher I've
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we don't need a professional ministry. Thi t's as foreign to the
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in the Old Testament. God always wdnted a professional ministry.
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brethren who are not gifted in thi^ particular way to aid them in
it by providing their particular neells.
Now I'm a great believer in the priesthood of all believers. I
believe that every Christian is a missionary in a rath|er limited

sense of the word. But I want to produce leadership, because
churches that lack leadership flounder and die.
th|e early days
of the Restoration ^pvement we tried| some mutual minis|tries. They

iust didn't work.
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The churches needed effective leadership.

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Thos
0^
who advocated mutual ministries were^ good men, but their concept
strangles us^^^
Our Bible colleges
are losing some of th ilr
original direction and getting the l|dea tha t we are hJrting the
church if we don't provide something for ev erybody. liut Bible
insti
college is not a smorgasbord. It is a prof essional ti'aining
>
tution designed to produce Christian teachers, Christi'an missionaries.

and Christian ministers.
Anything else we
produce is 'an accident.
We've had some good doctors, lawyer^, merclants, chiefs, housewivejs,

and other things out of Bible colleges. Bi t1
they werel accidents.
If our Bible colleges lose their intlent they lose the purpose of
their existence because the church needs leadership. |

The non-professional missionary is particularly limited in what
he is capable of doing, no matter how deep his dedicatlion.
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And
put in
any of you who are members of the churches know it. "ôu
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40 hours a week on a job. If you live in a metropolitan community

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you spend up to 20 hours a week getting to
and from wirk if you heve
Do not
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to commute any distance at all. AftSr you Sake time f8r your
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family, it's a miracle if you've got^five

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a weel^left
over t8A
T
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concentrate on the work of the churcS, Tha t's why our^churches

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are suffering right now. Only 50% o'f the m jmbership
ever really
gets involved in the church program.' And 43 of that 5b% is involvid

in what we call nurtureserving tho'se inside
the church in Bible
schools, VBS, and this sort of thing'.
Only
2% are involved in out-
reach, and if that 2% can only give tour or five hours' a week, it'
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no wonder that we are stagnating in the Res toration Movement. In

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spite of all our protest about growth, in t le last thrhe years we

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have gone backwards in our total membership
across the U.S.
And
part of the fault lies with us who whrk in 3ible colleges, who hav
a group that is committed to Christ,' pr^me

into the ministry and missions.
targets for recruitment
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Let me repeat two statements from'my pre/ious message on re

cruiting.
First, I am utterly committed to recruiting' a ministry md
a mission force because this was the first thing Jesus did when He
started His ministry. He found 12 mbn whom He named ajiostles and

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70 who became disciples (that group hpparen tly grew to' 120); these
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He equipped to become the vanguard ot world evangelism'.
He spent
almost His total time training them.' SeconJ, in II Tikothy 2:2

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we have the pattern to commit the Gohpel to
faithful men who are

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able to teach others also.
That's a' revolving cycle tliat has to
remain perpetually in motion or the 'church Loses its leadership.

When it does this, it falters, stagn'ates, aid dies.
Now, in our Bible colleges we haVe, depe tiding on the year, from
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5,000 to 9,000 students. The colleg'es vary in size frbm tiny

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institutions with about 20 students 'to the Largest tha't run a litt .e
Type within the lines. If short, lengthen the next line that number of char-

Do not
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over 800. I don't think in training^-a miniotry that tfiere's any P

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virtue in having a tiny college and ihere's^no great virtue in hav3.ng
ci mbcr
huge eMWMHfc of people. What reall^ matters is what happens durijig

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the four or five years the students !are there.
And I'U like to

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commend some of our schools.
Nebraska Christian College has the

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finest record as far as the percenta'ge of freshman stiAients who

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eventually graduate and go to the wotk.

do pretty well.
One or two otSier schools
The rest of us fall' into a pretty bigj basket,

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doing just about the same in the nunfoer that we are ge^tting out.
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I haven't attempted to analyze why Nebraska happens td be the lead er

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in this particular thing; I just hop's they continue wi'th this sort
of excellence.
Cincinnati Bible Seminary and Ozairk Bible College I'ead in the

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number of graduates who have gone td the mission field. In the last
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decade, Ozark is the sharp leader, Oincinnsti remains 'second, and

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Lincoln Christian College is third. ' San Jcse Bible Cdllege is

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fourth.
And I don't think it's an dccidentj that in arly of those
particular schools the results are dxactly commensuratjei|||ôt only

with the size of the student body^ but
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the emphadis that they

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put on recruiting. In my 12 years dt Ozarl I think I 'spent 34

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of the 36 weeks in the school year frying to recruit Mssionaries.

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I think Harvey Bacus, who now heads'that program, probably spent

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the other two weeks doing it.
And I know jome of the'men in these

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other colleges that I've mentioned ^ho worl. the entird year trying
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to get students committed to missioAary service.
Recruiting is
not an accident.
It is a design. '
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Of the 5,000 to 9,000 students iA Bible college eaAh year, only

about 15%
come in with any commitThent to the
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ministry. At San Jose we check our Treshmefi every yesSr. We run ^

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them through five days of tests to
outîf they'reâlive.
n
of that testing is psychologicalto find o
do. Most of them just want to be th'ere.

is true of other colleges too.
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ut what th^ want to
I have discovered that t lis
The 'Accrediting Associ'ation of
Bible Colleges recently did a study 'of several hundred' colleges

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across the country.
They discovered' that even though bost of thos

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schools believe that any student who' enters is directl"y called of

God to the ministry (or they wouldn"t permit him to en'ter!), only
about 12 to 15 % of their freshmen rVally w anted to be' ministers
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or missionaries. The rest were just' there.
Here, brothers and sisters, is a 'tremendous place do go recruit

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Here you've got a semi-captive audie'nce that is sort o'f interested

in the Christian Gospel and in Chris'tian outreach.
An'd if you don ^t
spend a huge amount of your energy decruiting from thiV select

you'"re making th
group for the mission field and for 'the mj

most tragic mistake that coitld ever te bmuH
Here is the most product^
^tuafion we' could pos-
sibly have for both the ministry and' the mi ssion
field.
I am
thrilled that God at this moment in our his :ory chose to give us
the Bible college. It has revived olir move nent. Now iet's not change
or destroy what gave us our missiona^ thru t

effort.
and our ministerial
If we can't do it in the Bitjle college
we can''t do it any -
where.
Missionaries do come from otKer sit uations
but the Bible
college supplies over 90% of our missionary
recruits for the
Restoration Movement.
our efforts where the
So let's concentrate
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return is greatest without neglecting the o :her

recruiting.
possibilities for
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Biblical and supportive instruction
in tje
Bible college,
if
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properly understood, centers on missions, êw Testament Christianity

cannot be understood or comprehendedûnless
outreach, because that's the total story,
of missionary service.
it centers in missiona 7
Jesus' life was a life
And He commissioned His followers to go in to
all the world to preach the Gospel to every

missionary story from beginning to end.
creature.
Acts is a
Every epistle (with the
possible exception of Hebrews, which may be a missionary message

to the childcen of Israel) is the account of the difficulties that
arise, a retelling of the missionary| standing
in the Jîeld, commun L-
eating with the field, coming back to the f ieldthe story of mxsKtBHE
missions. This is what isor ought to be-|-taught in our Bible

colleges,
If our Bible colleges are going to becon e productive as far as
recruiting missionaries, a total missions c limate
must'I exist on
the campus. This can begin by formling a md ssion#
club|. One stu-
dent who is really excited about missions c an spark otHiers'

of potential
until pretty soon there's a whole group lidBXssX
interest
missionaries.
clus ter
Years ago at Minnesota Bible College
lected into a missions group. Men iike Ma?
of students
col-
Ward Randall,\îbbs
and Mark Maxey, and Leland Tyrrell were induded. Su4denly from
that one particular little mission ^'ôup w<

evangelism in our churches.
began to have world
The same thin| has happened and can
happen again on other Bible college campus< s.
The members of the missions eroup shoul( then start a missions
paper. And
Snouici hi- ir05xn\-zfi<{!l.
missions teams^ Send th( students out to the
churches to talk about missions.
It's goo( experience for the
students and it's good education fo^ the clurches.

Do not
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Then start missions prayer meetir^s, Pr^y about missions and
missionaries. My wife holds prayer^meetinj^s every Monday after ^
chapel at San Jose. And we invite tSe students into oSr home and
feed them some of the most awful foo'd
from all over the world.
they 2ver ate. '

"it's food
The kids tliink it's great!
We get them
together, crowd them in, and cram missions
down their |throats,
And pray with them. And all of a suldden ou t
classes we've got 30% of our graduates on t ae
of our last three Ki

mission field.
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Have a Faith-Promise program going durin? the school year.

I was privileged to participate in Ozark Biale College's first
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Faith-Promise program in 1956.

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Ozark kids
rfere the brokest of the
broke. But they committed $2,500 th'at firs t year. Not even
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President Boatman thought the goal wjsuld be
reached, feut they
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gave $2,700and thought the world had come
to an end,I
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program grew, and two years ago they| gave o ver
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A missions emphasis week is important also.
pie
$100,OOb to mission!,
Get missionary
17
speakers to challenge the student boUy. Be
18
potential missionary speakers and give them only as much time as
19
they can handle. If they're good fot two h Durs, give 'them two
20
hours. If they can communicate in sWahili but not in fenglish,
21
have them pray and read the Scriptur'es in S laahili
22
else do the talking.
selective,' Interview
and let someone
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Someone must spark the flame of m'issions
interest and see that
2k
it is fed. Faculty involvement is a' must,
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the faculty and administration inter'ests th e
students.
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members interested in missions shoul'd badger
the others into at-
27
tending meetings of the school's missions g roup.
28
administration involved in the group'.
because what interests
Facul :y
Then get the
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Send the missions students out on^missioS internships. When

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students' interest in missions has bien stiQiulated by i Failtth-
a-ndby^vini^,
Promise program^ their aesire to go xo the
^field incr^ses.
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Get
them to stay on the field as long as'possiblepreferably a year

but three months if that's all the time the V can spend'.
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Then when
they return stick with them, follow ihem up in their interests.

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and nourish them.
Do all the things' the Oh ristian serVice camps
are unable to do in their recruiting* prograns.
What percentage of interns go back to th e

That's a real savings to the churcheb.
$1,000.
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for less than sxtkmisHKdx^Hiiaxsx
field?
About 50%.
Their can send 'an Intern ou:
If he went as a rec'ruit it
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would cost probably at least $10,000'.
Internships hel^ us get our

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losses early, while it's less expensive.
Max Ward Randall runs the best inftemship program alt Lincoln
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Christian College. It is the most sfelectiVB, according to my

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records.
Lincoln's return rate is 9*0%.
60 and 75%.
Ozark is runnfing between
San Jose is still down 'at the 50% level.' Internship

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programs can improve.
They can groW if giv en a chancel.
If you
don't know how to run an internship 'program talk to sclhools that

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have good ones.
They'll help, becaiise they're
intereslted in mis-
sions.
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Then create a missions curriculuiri that is both challenging and
comprehensive.
Don't get hung up orl how it tellectual 'the
students
are going to be.
Some of the world"s best
missionarids are not th
world's greatest intellectuals.
Soirie of th e greatest 'linguists an

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some of the greatest intellectuals \Je've e\er had havd gone to the
mission field.
But some of the misdion students are ûst ordinary

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kids off the farm who don't mind li-îng anywhere and tjalking to people
Do not
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about Jesus. A huge amount of the v^rld ne@ds that ki^d of peopled
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They're the ones who actually get th^ leg wSrk done. Ihey don't C
translate the languages.
They win the people.
They don
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And the more o those you get thie better off

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Now don't send someone likte that to Tubingen"
you are.
Japan, where the people are highly literate

people in thia
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intellectilals.
But a
lot of nUPjJworld cannot read or writte and t ley
need s<Anebody to
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live with them and show them Jesus. '
Teach the history of missions frota the
b ook of Act^ to the 20th
Show the great missions mo'vements and how thley changed
century.
the world. Our k^s want to be challenged
They want to be in
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on world change.
And right now throKagh missions we cduld change

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the history of Asia, the South Pacific, Sou th America,' and Africa.
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And you can get in on some of it if "you wan t to be a rtissionary.

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Then teach restoration missions'some oi our failures and some

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of our successes.
Then give an intfoductio n to mission theory.

side of
Incorporate an internship program iilto the academic pitHg

school.
Offer credit for internshi|ip.
to anthropology.
the
Gi\e some introduction
Teach cross-cultutfal coiraiunitation, iNew Testamen
evangelism, and Bible missionary principles
Offer linguistics
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training and hold mission seminars for the
more serious students.
And finally, create an ongoing flow of ttissionary aeal by Bible

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emphasis.
Teach the Bible, but emphasize ihe missiondry emphasis
that is central to the message it cdntaina
kKtksXHBI
Our 5,000 to 9,000 Bible college'studeni;s are prime targets foi

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recruiting for the ministry and missions
They've already express ed
an interest by paying their money aAd enrol.ling.
DonH let them
down.
m
They came to get something. 'Give ii: to them. 'And if possible
Do not
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(In 7 pt. )
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A cassette tape of the complete message from which
this article
is excerpted is
available from Christian Audio Tapes, 888 C >rporation Street, Brid ;eport, XL
62417.
Tapes of other messages delivered
a t the Natio lal
Missiona ry Convention
are also available.
Mr. Phillips, experienced in the
jork being
fields, is president of San Jose Bible College
done on many differ mt misAdton

in San Jose, Califo mia.
Do not
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RECRUITING IN
By Woodrow Phillips
jSe following article is the lasd^f thr^ messages
on recruiting delivered by Woodrow Phjllips ^t the 29tl^
National Missionary Convention in Do<ê City, Kansas,
Mr. Phillips*s other two messages, on' recruiting
Christian service camps and Bible colieges,^Dpeared in
the July 15 and August 1 issues of HORIZONS,
of messages from the National Missionlary Conirention wili
continue in the September 1 issue witti "Forwarding
Agents," by Neal and Dorothy ClappTj|
in
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The recruiting process for mission^ has t0
begin
12
where it can enfr*nuo- through every age group
13
means it must start in the local congtegatmo n.
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church is a divine institution that iii spite
That
The
of its
19 weaknesses is God*s choice. His best 'for rig at

16
now.
You ask, "Where do you start recru'iting missionaries
17
and preachers?" When they are still jln thair
18
wombs. Before I was born I was dedic'ated by
19
to serve God in the preaching ministry. Thei she prayed
mothers'
my mother
20
with despair for 19 years before I ever becane a Chris
21
tian.
But Mom won, because God honors praye r.

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I wish A more mothers were so cominitted
to the Lord
23 that they had my mother's view.
2i|
We need mot lers
will pray, "Dear God, if my son or da|ughter
who
can be used'
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in a special way in your kingdom, use' him or
her".
Then
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they must be satisfied with whatever bod doe5 with that'I
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boy or girl.
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Mission recruitment in the church,, then.
starts from,
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the cradle roll and works up through every age group, ^

Young people should be taught that thiy were^designed ^
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to glorify God and that they have a right to make a
k Iwing any way they want to, to be anything they
oleasibl'
as long as it pleases God, But teach' them taat if He
touches them through His Word and witji the p^wer of J

His Spirit and calls them to the mini|stry, yau think J
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they've chosen the greatest task on e'arth. |l think we'
need to preach that more. Propagatio'n is a way of life!.

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Generation is what produces new chiliiren, Aind there ar'e

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no biological accidents in the kingdo'm of God. When wd
12
plant the seed of the Word in the poWer of tjhe Holy
13
Spirit, God produces the result.
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The Bible says, "Whatsoever a man 'soweth, that shall'

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He also reap". If there's no seed sdwing, there can bd
16
no harvesting. That's why we must ndt give up on the
17
highly resistant fields.such as Japarl, Europe, and somd
18
of the islands. Those fields will b^ absolitely barrel
19 if there is no seed put into them.

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If the church wants soul winners,'teachers, evangelists,

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and
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missionaries,/preachers, it must plailt the
22
will produce the crop. Preachers ard not accidents. ^
23
I said before, there are no biologicdl accicents in thd
eed that
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kingdom of God. The Word of God is dxplicil ly plain '

AV-0.4 is
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that whatever seed you sow^-4jy^what you will
reap
Missions should be taught from thd cradle roll to ttte

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senior saints.
The methods of planting are going to

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differ but the seed will produce the'recrui ;s.
This
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must not be a haphazard effort. SkilJ
and persistence
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are needed. I'd like to make the following suggestions^
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3 for seed sowing for missions in the local
ch urches.
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Special mission Sunday school less'ons sho uld be taught

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at least once a month in every restor'ation c lurch
in
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America. Either write your own or us'e the o les
that at'e
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published each month in HORIOZNS. Do' more tban just '
10
teach about the fields geographically". We'ra the world's
11
13
greatest people on geography, I went^ to Sun day school

all my life. I didn't learn anything^ having to do with'
my salvation, but by.the time I was s|even I could recor'd
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the 42 stop^ in the wilderness wander'ings of
12
the childr'en
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of Israel. I learned all the geograp|hy but
nobody real'ly
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got down and told me that I needed Je'sus Christ
17
life. So when you're teaching this nlission
18
lesson, remember that it's more than 'just facts of how
19
many churches are out there, how manyj missionaries, hoW
in my
Sunday school
20
many tribes people, and all the rest." Teach
them that'
t
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somebody needs to go out there and tallk to t hose
22
And challenge them to think about goi'ng them selves.
folks.
23
How can this mission education pre/gram be implemented?

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Should every teacher have to teach a 'special
25 a month?
No.
lesson onc|e
One teacher can teach 'four dd fferent classes

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who
Select missions teacher^ who re ally love '

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missions,/are sold on missions, and vjho have
28
misxB missions. They must be your "niission sparkplugs".
studied
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have them prepare one lesson each monlth and present it I

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3 to four different classes, adapting i? for e ich particular

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AWARENESS
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Recognize your missionaries in yout bulle tins
church papers.
Never let any congregation b
and
unaware
9 of who its missionarAss are.
Print their pictures.
Tell
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their stories.
Put in prayer request's.
Don't do this'
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once in a while; do it every week.
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Further emphasize missions by haviing a missions prayer

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minute every Lord's day.
Set aside a! time w fien you stdp

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for a moment in the service and pray 'for soir e missionai?y

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Particularly pray for those! suppoi ted by youd

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congregation.
<UjLhAflJi4
-j^kjLSxei Ho
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boMskiu boOLhd- U>fctP.
>6knnuiiDJbu nniS
FAITH-PROMISE
(>JuPo3viuz:i^j56.
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20
Every New Testament congre^ffiSôn in Amerd ca
needs ail
I his is not'
annual Faith-Promise missions conferdnce,
21
a money raising gimmick.
22
education.
It is a todl for n issionary '
When the people have beed educated about

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missions, they'll give to missions. ^
2k' Fj^SiJintain
25
26
27
28
a weekly posting of the Faith-Pi omise goald
and results. .
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sport
uôUspJo^
vj(yUjU..5i4^
RECRUITS
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l-Jhenever a member of your congregation3 oung or old

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or in-betweensteps forward and make a coniiltment to E

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go to the mission field, put them on ôur recruit list I

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on your honor roll of those who have nlisted for
special serviSi in Christ. Make them! a matter of prayeh:

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and keep them encouraged.

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Several avenues of mission educatibn are open to sup*I
plement the missionary lessons presenlted eacp month.

missionary
10
or borrow EHssKkkB
Buy
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cassettes and cihrculate them.
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heard people say that a cassette ministry doesn't do arty

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good. NtakkiK No one thing does that touch good. It's '
13 the voluminouaness of what is done an!d the iepetition df

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1U doing it over and over again until iU gets t o the rightJ

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15 people.
That's what does the good. '
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Also have missionary filmstrips arid
slides.
Create 'a
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Every month in oKir libr ary we put '
17
missionary library.
18
out a special attractive table wAthâfll the
new missioris
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19 books we have bought that month.

20
Then start taking mission field trips.
If there's '
21
any kind of mission near youbenevolent hone, an edu-'

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EXPOSURE
26
At least once each quarter have a'missior ary visit.'
27 Some missionaries get upset because they arc not given'

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the opportunity to preach in the moniing service. Personally,

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that's the one service I'd rather not^preachâs
a mis- E^
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sionary, because the people are accustomed
tj^
tuning
3 out for that one.
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6
So unless you're really g Dod
that
service won't help that much. I woul|d rathe r talk to

eight interested people than to 300 wjio are lot interested.
So if they will give me any group of any siz 2 in any
7 churchand I mean from two

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upI'm going to spend
several hours talking to themaf* Some of the
finest
9 recruits I've gotten have come out of some o f the smallest

10
groups I've spoken to.
So missionaries, get off your
11
ego trips. You do not have to be the| Sunday
12
speaker. The fact is that sometimes ôu've
morning
50tched it
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you're so long winded. \Â sermon does| not hake

eternal to be immortal-Y And you do not have
to be
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everybody on your field that you ever met.
-ê're not
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got eternity to get them straightened| out.
19 have to do that for us.
So you don't
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Churches, have at least a quarterly missiDnary
And missionaries, whatever they give ôu, ta ke
visitj.
advantage
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f it. Don't gripe about it, especially if they give ^
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you the young people. What do you do| with tlem when you
get there? Recruit. Tell them it's |the gre atest job '
in the world. Let them know you are învolve i in the
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greatest work in the world and that you coul 3 win if
27 you just had more workers.

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PREACHING
The preacher ought to preach mission semfins. If he^

does so once a quarter, and if a missionary
speaks once^
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lowed, I promise that a missionary chbrch wi11
are fol- '

result.
We are basically small church people. Th e
Christian church in the United States' has 187
Average attendance is less than that.| In-fiacJ^ 50%
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average
members.'
of all Protestant churches in America' have newer than '

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100 in attendance on Sunday morning.|If you r
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has over 350 you're in the top 5% of 'the cht rches
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America. We are not big church peopl|e.
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But a small church in a dying comnlunity vi ith no pos-*

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decide to be a missionary church, Oiltreach
into a com^
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munity may have stopped except for b^ptizini
the children
growing up in the congregation, but dhurchei
such as these
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commitment
can reach around the world if they'll make

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to missions.
The church in Copeland, Kansas, id a goo( example. '
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Copeland,^ a town of about 300, has
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If 100% of the population attended oAe of the two, the|
2i| would each have only 150.
ti'o churches!
The Copelind church has aboAt

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100, or 66% of their potential. That's a lot better than

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most churches in communities of 20,060 or more! But the

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Copeland church reaches around the wbrld wi :h its mission
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program. In 1975 they gave between ^6,000
md $7,000 to
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And I've seen little churcjjes in îssouri
come alive with a missions program wh^n theij^ only hopefp

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as a local congregation was slow extipction )ecause thejLr

town is dying.
, ha>re
to die; they ,
These churches don't
can strawberry out around the world. ,

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dies if it has produced severaljchildrpn. Ch arches

last forever.
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the ministry and missions, they could, become great.

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other words, missions must be central, in the
the
that wants to live.
If a missions climate becomes normative in the congijeI
gational life^ then recruiting becomes natur al,

forced, exotic, or artificial.
Recriîting c ught to be ,
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the most natural thing the church do^s.

expect recruits.
not
It ought to
Mission emphasis apd trair ing will

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produce missionary recruits because tjhe seec
must bear,
its fruit.
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When the church loses its divine 4ir6ct4^ e

winding it will expend its energies
and atrophy and die.
lessc r
of world
causes
The happiest, i|iost Bit lically

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oriented congregations I know are grât miss ionary chu^ches.
Emphasiiing an overwhelming t^sk or j oal with tlje
promise of divine guidance and resources to attain it i

Do not
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will solve most church problems.

and vision that boggs us riwf down
lac^ of chall^ge
pett^^ things. ^
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The church can recruit from every age group for
h mission emphasis, from the kswA unborn child that we pray

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-reVvryi
for^the senior saint who is now^^yeaili6Sând
6 in some form of mission effort.
Together we can do what
7 none of us can do alone,

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can be use<^
churche5
are compo'sed
of average Americans, our combined in'come in
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A !tithe
this would
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be $500 million.
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would produce $50 million a year.
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would tithe their membership for the ^ninistrj'', then titê
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from that group for missionary servic'e, we wDuld have '
And a tithe of this' for missions
1U 10,000 missionaries.
And if our churches
I mention this because
I wat to
15 stress that we have not begun to tap 'our resources

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of
funds and personnel in our churches. '

The local church is the cradle of 'our mission
effort.
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Don't deprecate the local church. If' it has
only 20 |
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members, make it a missionary church.' If it
20
members, make it a missionary church.' Because out of
has 10,000
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that comes the spiritual future of th'e world

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A cassette tape of the complete me'ssage f rom which tbis article .js exceirpted
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sbreet, Bridge sport, IL
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62417.
Tapes of other messages deliv'ered at
27 also available.
the National Missionary Convention are
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M^. Phillips, experienced in the w|ork beiig done on jnany differeit mission fields.
is preiSs^tyi^nste
acters. If long, shorten the next ime^nat numoer oi characxer^
tjO not

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D HORIZONS NO.

God's frontiersmen are those who t^ke the|-Gospgl wh^e ^

it has never before reached. They ai^ not (^nfln^^d to ^ne ^

3 particular religious group.

the eipc struggle of Roman Catholic njissionaries An nor^thei

Mexico. When the Conquistadors could^ not pajcify The

country with military might, these frontiersmen j^cified

it with the Gospel. Talk to some of ^the Moravian-bretl^ren !

who were patt of one of the greatest missionary movemei^ts

Talk through history to men of evei^ theological

and religious persuasion, who before and underneath their

own interpretations of Scripture bell^eved in the authoi^ity '

of the Word of God and in the personal presence of the poly*

Christ carried the cross everywhere.|Those

II Corinthians 5:20 contains the n^essage of the frot^tiers-

behalf: be reconciled to God." II dorinthlians

"We are therefore Christ's ambassadors

J^e regions beyondthat's the plsjce for frontiersman.

as your ba|ck yard

fence or as far away as the other sic(e of th e

One of God's frontiersmen spoke recently at San Jose Bible

College. He Was a professor at a unijversity

Pakistan. Through his sharing Christ, 16 chiurches werej for^d.

But G od opened another

door for him. He went to an island wllere thS mosl" poweSful^

h ($10,00 for each 15 minutes) they would give

5 house for Gospel programs as he could' produc

Brothers and sisters, God's frontiersmen

;o all the ffay

from Peter on Pentecost to Paul preacjiing on Mars;Hill

this man sharing through university c,las8rooBs iniPakisfan

to you who are somewhere out in the wprld pr eaching the,

unsearchable riches of God.

radio station in the world is just not compl'iting ^consttuc-C

The perilous world situation in whjLch we .ive is alwpys

Our ^andate is to becofie

1U 'rontiersmen with the news of God.

15 Isolationist position for the church,| We ar^ to be invplvec

everywhere and we are to meet man's n^eds. Until the hpur

of death or the moment of Christ's coiping, wi: are ;engag^d

33 frontiersmen in a life and death struggle to recall ^an

;rom his self-destructive decisions tljiat have separated,him

learts, which remains forever void anf unful illed; unti^

>od makes His re-entry.

Our frontier is the unexplored space of; the I^uman

We are not so much interested in g^ograph^

>lercing the dark caverns of unbelief, of rel elliop, of,

And we are frontiersmen sii^ly coiimitted to ,

sin, of self-glorification, .and cot queripg thqm in

:he name and by the power of our cric^fled Lc rd.

to the task since we live in a tenpoiSl, matlrial&tic ^

Freedom's frontiersmen volunteer t5 engag e in S warSre

7 temporary setbacks but it will not knbw defeIt.

the frontiersmen is the way of faith-l-believLng the unblelieyable

9 so completely that we transcend the rfeality >f th$ unselen

accepting what they can know by their' sensat e nat^ii^e*

13 Incarnate Word of Jesus, and the persbnal pr >8enc$ of His

Holy Spirit in our lives.

We need to have an undeniable confidence :hat (^d is'

And we need a life style that bonfirmp thi$ convic-

And with that

fools who just can't win.

appear tp the :world'as

But in Christ, Pa il say9, we' are