Friday, November 3, 2023

The Missionary's Goal

He said to them, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem…" (Luke 18:31) 

In our natural life our ambitions change as we grow, but in the Christian life the goal is given at the very beginning, and the beginning and the end are exactly the same, namely, our Lord Himself. 

We start with Christ, and we end with Him until we all come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, and not simply to our own idea of what the Christian life should be. 

[Oswald Chambers] 






Ephesians 4:13 ...  Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: