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Passion For Missions
(Rev.) Darrell Desrosiers

At age twelve, Robert Louis Stevenson (who later wrote Treasure Island) was looking out into the dark from his upstairs window watching a man light the streetlamps. Stevenson’s governess came into the room and asked what he was doing. He replied, "I am watching a man cut holes in the darkness."

Are you motivated in missions? Let me suggest a few reasons why you should be:

2 Cor 5:11-21

We are given the ministry of reconciliation. The first call to missions is the fact that Jesus Himself said GO! That in itself should be enough for us. If the Bible is a missionary book then the People of the Book must be a missionary people.

Christ’s love compels us from within our own hearts. The love of Jesus which we have experienced compels us to make Him known.

One of my favourite stories is of the 4 lepers at the gate who find the plunder from the Aramean camp and go back to tell the city.

2 Kings 7:9 Then they said to each other, "We’re not doing right. This is a day of good news and we are keeping it to ourselves. If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us. Let’s go at once and report this to the royal palace.

It could be that one of the great hindrances to evangelism today is the poverty of our own experience. -- Billy Graham

All around the world we see the effects of sin in the lives of people. Those who are without Jesus are slaves to the tormentor and in bondage. All around us is death as people try desperately to fill their lives with things that do not satisfy.

Passion for missions is rooted in the reality that all of us live forever. The reality of hell should stir all of us to action.

The majority of mission work of the past has been to nations where there are a number of nationals already doing the work. What about those nations that still have no witness at all? God is looking for those who will go.

Go was one of the final words of Jesus to his followers. It has been my experience that passion comes from doing. As with most things in life we never know that we will enjoy something until we try it.

The author, Darrell Desrosiers is a man who lives mission. He is the husband of one wife (Sharon), a father and spiritual leader. As the pastor of New Life Assembly in Killarney Manitoba he is committed to leading his flock in missional living. As the District Missions leader for the Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario District of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada he promotes mission service in this part of central Canada. He is available to consult with churches in Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario re. increasing the life in their missions ministry.

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