A Biblical Perspective of Missions — Mose Stoltzfus

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Greetings to you all this morning. In the name of our Lord Jesus, good to be back home again. Even though we're here to report, as the rest of you know, that we had a very beautiful wedding in Michigan with Brother Jay and Sister Ruthie last weekend.

And our hearts rejoice that another couple can be sent on life's way together in holy matrimony with so many rich blessings poured upon them and truly it was poured upon us all for having been there. Shall we this morning bow our heads for prayer as we begin?

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy great name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth just like it is in heaven. Give us our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

The Biblical Scope and Urgency of Missions

For thine is the glory, the honor, and the power forever and ever. Amen. I'd like to speak this morning on the subject of a biblical perspective of missions. Maybe you have heard enough on this subject for a while.

And if you have, just having come through Missions Conference about five weeks ago, I can understand that. But I do beg you to hear me out here this morning. I have immersed myself for many weeks on this subject.

First of all, I was asked to have the six sessions that I had at Missions Conference on trying to portray a burden for the low German people throughout Canada, some in the U .S., and then in Mexico, Belize, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, and wherever else they are found.

After that, I began to pick up bits and pieces from the Muslim training classes that were held somewhere maybe close to a year ago. Numerous questions came up about that, and so I took that material and immersed myself in some of those teachings, and then also some questions that had come up at CBI that likewise I began to study out, just not having immersed myself enough throughout the last couple of years in some of those subjects.

This morning's message, I trust, will be a bit more on the positive side than the negative, if I know a little bit the direction I hope to go with it, because I have to admit that there was a revival in my own heart.

I had somewhat the attitude that, hey, I'm nearly 63 years of age, let these young fellows do the exploits for God in other countries, and even locally, perhaps, it seemed like my life, whether I wanted it to or not, was more absorbed in helping churches that were having problems, and instead of being evangelistic-oriented like I was in the past a lot, and some of you noticed the change in my messages too, I became a lot more in the defense of truth and defense of the gospel, and I still believe that God has his hand upon my life for those things, simply because of the tremendous astronomical demand for it today and need for it, in light of all the false doctrine and false prophecy that is floating around in the world.

But I must say my burden for missions, you know, was not as acute or not as sensitive as I wished that it could have been at times. But after I immersed myself like this for quite a number of months here through the winter and not traveling hardly in January and February, I had a revival of it in my own heart.

And then, of course, all it took was that beautiful phone call from Bolivia concerning the great need that there is, and the doors are just open everywhere, for the preaching of the gospel, and people are hungry and are desperately in need for someone to share with them the truth concerning these things.

And then I did get another call, or I had another phone conversation a few days ago that gave us the story that a Mennonite couple, no, a Boliviano couple, Spanish-Boliviano couple, 50 years of age, got converted and was baptized this week and is already helping out in the mission down there in Bolivia where some of our missionaries are.

And so my heart is thrilled with all of that. I am motivated and re-inspired because I began to see, and is one of my great cautions today, and that is one of the reasons I plan to go on a positive note first, and hopefully I will give you some of the things I have found and discovered at a later message.

But I realize that, you know, there is a tendency that we, in the defense of the faith, we can find so many non-biblical perspectives in our time that we can't get a bit cynical or negative about missions and we just think, hey, we might as well pack up and come home and do our missions locally and so on.

But I'm not at that place. I do believe that the age of missions is closing very fast upon us because of the conditions of the world and the attitude of the leaders are having tremendous negative propaganda against proselytizing.

They do not want to hear of it. They don't want anybody doing it. And a lot of the missions have condescended to social work, feeding the hungry and nursing the sick and working with AIDS patients, maybe, and things like that.

And we are in a terrible dearth of the simplicity of preaching the gospel, just simply preaching the good news, the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and sharing with people how they can get right with God and go to heaven when they die.

And that is extremely necessary in our time and I hope to stir a bit and stimulate a bit of revival. And therefore, I have chosen the title of my message, A Biblical Perspective of Missions. Now, I could have said, A Biblical Perspective of Evangelism because I realize when I use the word mission, they allow me to use it in a very broad sense.

I'm not talking about Africa today. Specifically, I'm not talking about Bolivia. Specifically, I'm talking about the whole general sense of we as born-again Christians trying to transmit and transfer the truth of the gospel to another person and the need for that in all of our lives.

So, like I said, I'm hoping to share some other things because I have uncovered and discovered and God has shown me some astounding things that are happening in missions. I've been on this subject day and night.

At my age, I often spend an hour or more sometimes a week in the middle of the night and so I've used that to pray about this subject and to listen to other messages and to read and you know, everything is totally quiet and it is a blessed time.

So, to us older folks, there is a blessing sometimes to not being able to sleep like we used to and I've found it rich at this time. Also, Brother Steve Coleman just shared with us yesterday morning in our prayer meeting here in the back concerning a Russian Mennonite man he worked with down in Mississippi or Alabama, I guess Mississippi or Louisiana where they were down there working.

It happened to be his foreman and he was out of Canada, right Brother? And he just said, our people, the Russian Mennonite people are just leaving in droves away from the churches and it's because there's so many of them there's nothing there.

There's nothing to answer to the questions and the needs of their life. And so that was another confirmation on this whole thing. Now, first of all, I would like to say that sometimes in mission conferences because of the way they are geared, I would say, or designed, we may sit through one of them and feel like if we're not involved in an unreached tribe, we're not doing anything.

And I'd like to bring that down in our own minds. That is simply not the case, even though I want to give my due respect to those this morning who have left family and home and wage earning abilities and all of that and have gone out in very difficult, very difficult circumstances in order to bring the gospel to a lost and dying world that has never heard the gospel.

I want to give my due respect to that. When I look at missions and I want to look at this subject in a very broad sense that there is so much more to missions than that. We want to give that its place, but there's a lot more to it.

And one of the things I'd like to do is just make a little bit of thankful mention, if I can call it that, on some of the ministries that are going on here in the church of which I am so grateful for.

I must say, I do not want to puff anybody's mind up, including my own, concerning this church because we do have some needs and some very pertinent needs that I hope that I can share a little bit about toward the end of my message here in the local congregation.

But I have never, ever been in a congregation that has been so involved in ministry on such a broad sense as I've experienced at Charity in Ephrata in my now almost 27 years that these two churches have been going.

So we do appreciate that. The other thing is I myself did have a number of trips, quite a number of trips to Haiti in the 90s and I experienced a very, very rich experience there with the preaching of the gospel to a heathen people.

And even though they may not have been quite as totally heathen as some of the unreached tribes of Africa, nevertheless, it's a country ruled by voodoo and witchcraft and the devil and it is a country where it was as black and white as I've ever seen it.

And I have the rich memories and the experiences that I would like to share maybe a little bit later on on some of the things that I've learned and they stand to me, they stand in my heart and my mind today as a tremendous example of biblical perspectives in mission and the fruit and the result of them are still going on strong today.

Another thing I'd like to say, and I excuse my long introduction here, but it is part of the message, it's not just an introduction, is that I believe our days are numbered. Like I mentioned a little bit before concerning the governments of our world are shutting down on the concept of missions and they want everybody to graduate to the social side of it and stop making proselytes and trying to win souls to a specific form or persuasion of Christianity.

I do believe our days are numbered. I see our president and I do want to respect him and pray for him, but he's planning to go to Turkey to establish diplomatic relations with that heavily, heavily Muslim country.

He has notified Iran and given them the opportunity this last week to just erase the past and start fresh. And of course Iran, which is very, very heavily Muslim too and with Muslim religious government in place there, responded back, well you fellows change and we'll take a look at it like or we'll consider it.

And so they're asking for the United States to change their attitude concerning Islam perhaps and maybe a number of other things that they may have in mind, which is also happening in this country. The change that has taken place since 9 -11 is almost hard to comprehend.

The sale of the Quran and the expansion of Islam in the major cities, I think we have now at least five major cities in the United States that have the call to prayer going out over the loudspeakers at five o 'clock in the morning.

And that is only growing and increasing likewise. And I hope for a greater revival of my own heart. I am, as you know, anticipating to make a trip again to Bolivia or to a foreign country like that and trust to again have my heart revived and encouraged as I get a firsthand view of the work there.

Contextualization and the Loss of Gospel Proclamation

What is coming upon us in our day is a difficult word for some of you to understand perhaps, especially some of you newer ones here that have maybe a bit of a limited English education, is the word neo-evangelical mythology.

That is the new concept, that is the new name that is being kicked around a lot and it has of course a lot of other names that are similar to it. But what we are looking at here is the problem with neo-evangelical mythology.

Let me read that concept in light of Muslim religion or evangelism. A man by the name of Bessam Madini had a very, very interesting article as he talked about the historical perspective and the theological perspective and the biblical perspective of Christian missions today as in the past, while in the historical of course he looked at over the years.

But during the last two decades, he writes, some severe criticism has been leveled at the missionary work which has been undertaken since the days of William Carey. We are told by these critics, for example, that missions among Muslims have been a failure.

Most of the missionaries of the past, so the critics say, were not good at cross-cultural communication and that is assumed to be the problem. This happened because missionaries failed, he writes, to contextualize the Christian message.

And what these neo-evangelical mission men, whatever we call them, missiologists or whatever, are saying is that there has been a failure for the last couple hundred years in winning the Muslims and I agree with that.

They are the toughest group, perhaps one of the toughest groups in the world, to try to win because they believe they have a superior revelation and a superior holy book and all those things. But what these men are saying is not true.

And so what they have done is because they look at that failure, they have concluded that there is now a failure in our approach and we must redo and rethink our entire approach of how to give the gospel to a lost and dying people.

Now let's be careful here and not get too hard on the Muslim world for this whole thing because it is in Lancaster County all over the place. Yesterday in the Saturday Intelligence Journal, no I'm sorry, earlier on this week was an article concerning our church up the road here, just a half a mile after the Mennonite church and their approach to winning the people in the area here.

And it mentioned in great detail, you know, how some of the things you might see there that you may walk outside the Mennonite church there and see a young boy with a cigarette in his hand and just kind of slouching around or I'm not sure it had all those words to it, but as I picture it standing outside and of course the church has a major program up there to reach out to the youth in Ephrata and invite them into the church and then what they do is they might have a snack for them and have some games for them to play and they might have the contemporary rock music playing in the room where they gather and all this thing to try to make these young people feel at home at Ephrata Mennonite church and then in hopes that somehow making them feel comfortable and at home with that type of outreach and program they might come on a Sunday morning and venture into the church house and sit in the pews someday on a Sunday morning.

That's what we call contextualization. To try to somehow build bridges with their music, with their food, with their clothing and with all kinds of things so that they might just feel welcome here and might feel at home and all that is done most of the time by without giving them the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

That they are lost and on their way to hell if they don't turn from their ways and this can be done in a nice way, you don't have to shout at them or what have you, but you have to give them the message in one way or another.

Ultimately that they are lost and they need to be saved and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners and he died and he rose again in order to deliver them from the power of sin. That is missing.

I just read in the last week or so where a large church has a hamburger joint or whatever you call it in a coffee house in the back of their church house and they invite the people in on Sunday morning and say, okay, take your pick, you can either go in there and sit down and listen to the rest and to the main service, but if you don't feel like doing that, just sit down here and have a hamburger, that will be fine.

You just choose whatever you want. And then there was another article in yesterday's paper concerning the Mannheim, a large church wanting to make a $8 million expansions up here in Mannheim, a Brethren in Christ church, and it made a list of the ministries that they are putting in there.

You know, there's an abortion ministry and there's a divorce ministry and there's a, I mean, you name it, they have it, it's a seeker-friendly church or apparently they're trying to transform into a seeker-friendly church and to do that they're going to go into about an $8 to $10 million expansion and they got their approval and plan to move ahead for it.

So when we talk about neo-evangelical missiology and this whole matter of contextualization, we're not targeting only the way, although that is a major one also, in how Muslims are presented with the gospel and they have rearranged the entire thing.

And I'm just flabbergasted, I'm amazed at the change of how we look at missions. One of my articles here is called Rethinking Missions Today and that is, of course, exactly what is happening. The whole premise of missiology is being rethought, redesigned, reorganized, and I'm sorry, I'm of the old school, I can't relate to it.

I'm just, you want to bring me into a program like that to approach sinners in that form, they've lost me a long time ago. And so, if you'll allow me to, I'll probably preach to you the old school today.

Okay, what is mission? Just looking it up in Webster's dictionary, I have this that Webster gives there, sent out with authority to preach, teach, and proselyte the gospel. It actually gives the first one as the gospel and then it allows that to also be in a political sense or a warlike sense.

You know how armies have a certain mission to accomplish, so it also means those things. But the first one on the list is to send out with authority to preach, teach, or proselyte people. And I add there very emphatically with the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

This is where missions were invented, especially in the book of Acts, and we have much to gain from the pattern and the biblical perspective that is given there. Now, I just wanted to again talk about a little bit of the mission activity from the church here locally.

And I say this to encourage it and to tell those that are involved, we see these things and we recognize them and we appreciate them. You know, there is so much done here in counseling and hospitality where it just seems, again, a few of us got phone calls in the past week of another young married couple with two children being sent here in order for some help for their lives and for their marriage and for their family.

And you know that it's been happening over the years and it's been such a joy. I've said many times, you know, it kind of has affected us. Instead of us having to go, many times they have just come and just said, can you help us?

And I think that has been a tremendous work in the church here. I also want to make mention of the Fountain of Life work and how individuals just take something like that and put these messages and make them available by phone.

And I know that there are some of you sitting here that have perhaps originally found the Lord through that open door and through all the efforts that brethren put there. I think that some of you who make in-home discipleship visits and sit down with your Bibles and explain the Scriptures to newly converted people and guide them into true faith and obedience to God and baptism, water baptism perhaps, and numerous things like that.

Those things are going on here and they don't only go on in an organized manner from the ministry, but they just happen because there are individuals who do that. On the hospitality level, homes are open over and over again at weekend meetings in the summer and Bible school and leadership seminar and missions conference and people brought in and you sit them down in your living room and you minister to them and find out whether there's a troubled soul in the midst of that, perhaps where you actually more specifically minister to the needs of their heart.

I look at the tape ministry or what we now call the, I guess, CD ministry more than tape ministry, but likewise that has been such a blessing throughout the years of so many people just hearing a message that has been preached locally here and got into the hands of people and they have been able to reorient their home and their church and their concept of God and truth and repentance from sin and all those different things and have led to the conversion of many.

I think of the tent trailer and the evangelism, the chairs and the books and the pulpit and everything that has gone out all the way, I think, northwest to Manitoba and Ohio many times and Virginia numerous times and Ontario and many places and have been a blessing there where the gospel has been preached.

I think of church planting and the numerous churches that look to us for stability and kind of a place where it's a little bit like a mother church, even though we don't have a conference set up and we don't have a desire for that where we're the head and the rest are the tail or part of the body down the road there somewhere.

We try to respect churches wherever they are planted and treat them as equal brothers and confer together for truth rather than we're at the top and you're at the bottom and we'll tell you what to believe and what to do next and so on.

We have never went to that, yet many churches have been planted and I think that work has been a good work for all those involved. Widows and single mothers finding a refuge for their needs and both financial and social, food and many other things that I see exchanged and transferred from somebody who has, somebody who doesn't have and that is such a joy to me.

Brother Earl, I think, is in Haiti this morning or headed for Haiti this morning involved majorly there in the literature program to distribute gospel Christian literature to the backwoods of needy people in Haiti.

I even had to think of singing, you know, do you realize the foxes aren't here this morning but the contribution that our brother Earl has made to the church here and to our youth just in the matter of singing and learning how to sing the great hymns of the past and sing them right and beautiful and many of you couples have learned music through that or through various classes that different one had and are able to sing in a harmonious manner because of the efforts of individuals that have put into that.

Biblical Missions, the Word of God, and the Gospel

Well, let us look more specifically now at some of the biblical perspective because we do want to look at the Word of God. One notices on the reading of the literature of the contextualization movement, the impact of the theologies there brought to us by the World Council of Churches.

Now, I had a friend of mine that I worked with years ago who got so curious when he found out that there's this outfit called the World Council of Churches in New York City and they had their headquarters up there at a given place.

I mean, this is back over 35 years ago now, nearly 40 years ago and he went up there and he began to ask, and when I walked into the office and here was this great World Council of Churches and he was very suspicious that they were trying to make leads with local churches here and there and that was in Ohio, I lived in Ohio at that time and he began to ask questions and finally an old man came out of that back office and stuck his nose at him and said, what are you up to?

And began to scrutinize him and to put him to the test of what he's interested in. Well, he said, I just want to know what you're all about. We're living down there in the state of Ohio and we're trying to find out what's happening here.

You know, what connection? And I think he basically gave him his walking papers and sent him out the road because he was not, he appeared to be skeptical and cautious and careful as to what's happening here.

Well, the World Council of Churches is far more influential today than it was then and has its fingers in many things, in the ecumenical movement to try to bring all religions together into one. More emphasis is also given today on the incarnational theology.

If you know what that word means, but you try to incarnate yourself or reincarnate, I guess it's incarnate is the proper word there. And have a new theology of how to minister to people and less emphasis on preaching and proclamation.

Our local Mennonite Central Committee here in Akron years ago and across the world when there was a catastrophe or just a needy place in Central America and Africa, South America and Asia, wherever and set up places and they would minister to the physical needs of the people, but the people that went, the workers, preached the gospel.

Today the rule is no more preaching, no more proselytizing, just try and quietly minister to the needs of the people with food and clothing and so on and that's what they're primarily about. Not saying that no one ever preaches the gospel, but the primary emphasis is on this whatever theology that they have and less emphasis on preaching and proclamation of the gospel.

There is more preoccupation with secondary issues such as forms of worship, fasting, timing of baptism, the old perspectives course out of U .S. Center of World Missions in Pasadena, California recommends not to baptize people when you have a few converts.

You should wait until you have a whole village and then baptize the people. That is not a biblical concept. That is part of this neo-evangelical concept that is flooding our country with a different view.

And if I can finish that sentence there, there's more preoccupation with secondary issues rather than the primary issues of preaching the gospel and a genuine desire to understand what the biblical precepts and guidelines are for missions today.

The spirit of the new approach is not so much the Bible as the new discipline of cultural anthropology, he writes here. What's anthropology? You know what cultural anthropology is? Well, it's a study of the races, it's the physical needs of the people, the need perhaps for hospitals or clinics and that's not always all bad, but it's their mental needs or their mental characteristics, it's customs, study of customs and social relationships, etc., etc.

Those are in the focus of men's eyes today when they look at missions and have departed from the simplicity of preaching the gospel and showing people how to get to heaven and have a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

I should have said that the other way around. First of all, have a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ in this life and then get to heaven when you die. Let us turn our Bibles to Romans 10 to begin the biblical perspective that we find there along with 1 Corinthians 1 and 2.

In Romans 10, Paul deals with the main reason for the failure of the Old Testament people of God in reaching their destiny. He says there in verse 1, Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved, for I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

They didn't preach the right message or they don't have the right message. For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness or going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

For Christ is the end of all for righteousness to everyone that believeth. And that is exactly, again, where things are at today. People are going about. They have a zeal of God. There are more traveling done than you can shake a stick at today of people going everywhere.

But what are they going for? What are they doing? Well, they build houses. Perhaps they clean up garbage after a storm. And again, that isn't all bad. After a tsunami or after a hurricane or after an earthquake.

But they don't go with the primary reason of preaching the gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ to them. They are zealous for God, but not according to knowledge. And they have gone about and established their own righteousness and have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.

Calling on the Lord and the Simplicity of the Gospel

Lord, tell me what to do and I'll do it like the apostle Saul said when he got converted on the way to Damascus. Who are you, Lord? And what will you have me do? I just love it. By the way, converts, that needs to be your prayer.

That needs to be your prayer. It's good for you to pray it on your knees. Lord, what will you have me to do? I want to be usable in the kingdom of God. And I know there's a lot of people sitting in this room that have been usable and still want to be usable in the kingdom of God, and that's wonderful.

But there are many more that need to pray that prayer in earnestness before God. I know that. I know that. Well, then he quotes Moses in verse 5. Moses describes the righteous witches of the law, that a man which doeth these things shall live by them.

But the righteous witches of faith speaketh on this wise. And this is so interesting. When we look at this portion of scripture here, Paul says here that, But the righteous of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thy heart who shall ascend into heaven, that is, to bring Christ down from above.

It's just such a favorite portion of scripture of mine. Or, in verse 7, Who shall descend into the deep, that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead. Now, honestly, we have a setting here. This is a quote out of Deuteronomy 30, I think it is.

And what we have here is a picture of, here's a group of people that are saying, How do we find God? It's a picture that many people are asking today. How do I find God? You know what people are doing to answer that question in our time?

They're, and they have it easy today in our jet-set age. They are saving their money, and have been for decades, and getting on a jet plane and flying across the world to the other side, and finding a path up into the mountains in Nepal, or in India somewhere, trying to find some religious guru who is in Hinduism or Buddhism of some kind, or something similar to that, and sitting at his feet to try to find spiritual truth for themselves.

I can't forget when I was in Oregon or Washington one time when a lady sat in front of me who couldn't sit. She was all over the chair and up and down who had done that, and got some kind of a demon in her, and she had gone all over the country and tried to get rid of that demon that was driving her absolutely insane about.

And I don't, I believe she probably didn't want to get rid of it, or totally, because I was warned later on she just wears out the saints with her requests. But she had done that, sat at his feet. Maybe he laid his hands on her, and she was possessed with some spirit of Kundalini from over there.

But I'm just saying this is what people do in order to find truth. And somebody says that I was reading here, one of the commentators said that, I think it is the Hebrew meaning of that word, who shall go into the deep, means more that who shall travel treacherously and difficultly across the deep, many miles, and as he did in ships.

And by the way, the Mediterranean Sea was right beside him there where this was given. And the Mediterranean Sea is a very difficult sea to travel because of storms, especially certain times of the year.

You remember Paul's shipwreck took place there, and apparently he had experienced other shipwrecks because he experienced multiple ones, at least more than one. And so that was a difficult sea to travel on.

And yet the picture is there, who shall ascend over the deep, I think is the way the Hebrew gives it. But I also see it in contrast with the way it says, who will go way up there into heaven and bring God down?

I want to know God, I want to experience God. Or the other one will say, who's going to go way down into the deep? You know the ocean is at least six, seven miles deep, I think, in certain places. And who's going to go down and get Him?

God is out there somewhere, but I can't find Him, and I have no idea how to find Him and how to get Him. And then the beautiful scripture, that the apostle Paul lays the axe to the root of the tree and said, it is nigh thee, in thy heart and in thy mouth.

Simplicity of the gospel! Have you ever seen the lights? We're not giving you some biblical perspective or missions of how to lead people to get the reality of God that you have to have four years of seminary training to get.

We're talking about a gospel that is so relevant, that is so powerful, that is so anointed by the Spirit of God, and it's right in front of you, in your heart and in your mouth. And if you should confess with your mouth, the Lord Jesus, and I think another translation gives it, that Jesus is Lord.

You surrender yourself and confess with your mouth the Lordship of Jesus Christ. I'm finished with my own way, my own religion, and I'm willing to surrender myself to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. And believe in thine heart that God has raised Him from the dead.

Thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believes on the righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made on the salvation. And therein is the simplicity of the gospel message. And I'm jealous for that, brothers.

I am jealous for the simplicity of the gospel. And we must block ourselves and refuse the concept of contextualization and trying to take months and years to try to build friendship. You know, instead of giving them the gospel in a nice and loving way, to sit beside them and open your Bible and show them the truth.

Like Dean Taylor said the other week, he said, while people are over there trying to make friends with the Muslims, they're over here aggressively making converts to the Muslim religion. And that's a true statement.

We were together the other day, Brother Denny and I, Mark Brubaker, and I said, I'm not sure anymore. I know I just read the figures that it must be 30 or 300 ,000 a year old. And he said it's for sure 300 ,000 a year of converts that they're making to expand their religion.