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Jesus said “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.
Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers
into his harvest field.” Matthew 9:37-38
Partners in the Gospel
Jesus said “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.
Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers
into his harvest field.” Matthew 9:37-38
It’s a call to prayer that’s as necessary today as in the first century
Thirty years on, the Jewish scholar Saul, converted and commissioned for his pioneering evangelistic work, wrote as the Apostle Paul “to all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons” telling them “I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the Gospel . . .” (Philippians 1:1-5). Clearly Paul regarded his brothers and sisters in the church
at Philippi not merely as interested onlookers to his missionary endeavours, but as fellow-workers in the great enterprise of proclaiming the Gospel of “Christ and him crucified” to all mankind.
Crosslinks Stakeholder scheme is designed to help today’s churches with their ‘partnership in the Gospel’ in world mission. It’s called Stakeholder and it offers all the mission agency resources a church needs to play its part in fulfilling the command of Jesus to take God’s Word beyond the parish boundary to God’s world.