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  THE ONE THING THE CHURCH WAS SENT FOR INTO THE WORLD...
  by Andrew Murray
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Summary: The church's failure to proclaim God's love has led to the
perishing of multitudes, and it is due to selfishness, unfaithfulness,
and neglect on the part of the church.

Topics: "Mission of the Church", "Proclaiming God's Love"
Scripture References: Matthew 28:19, Mark 16:15

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Andrew Murray emphasizes the church's critical mission to proclaim God's
love to the world, lamenting the neglect that has led to countless souls
perishing without the knowledge of Christ. He highlights the staggering
reality of thirty million heathens dying each year, urging Christians to
recognize their responsibility in sharing the gospel. Murray asserts
that the church was specifically sent to carry God's love to all
nations, and the failure to do so stems from selfishness and
unfaithfulness. He calls for a renewed commitment to this divine
mandate, reminding believers of the urgency and importance of their
calling.

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The sin of this neglect in the church of God, in not accepting and
proclaiming this great 'whosoever' of God's love, in not living to make
God's love known has had and is having such appalling consequences, that
even Christians fail to realise what is meant. We are told that there
are thirty million heathens every year passing away into utter darkness.
We count up the years, and think how this has been going on through the
ages since Christ gave the great command to his church as its watchword.
The mind refuses to take it in. It is as if this wonderful love of God
might have interfered, might have done more. It looks as if it is too
awful to put upon the church, upon us the Christians of today too, the
burden and the guilt of these perishing multitudes. And yet it is so.

The eternal love gave the Son to reveal it on earth. The Son committed
it to his disciples, to his body, the church, with a charge as plain as
words can make it, to carry that love to every creature, to all nations,
to the ends of the earth. That was the one thing the church was sent for
into the world, even as he had been sent, and for nothing else. It is
due to nothing but selfishness, and unfaithfulness, and neglect on the
part of the church, that this holy mission has not been so badly
accomplished.

(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 60)

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