Missionaries
At the age of sixteen, C. T. Studd was already an expert cricket player and at nineteen was made captain of his team at Eton, England. Soon he became a world- famous sports personality. But the Lord had different plans for him; for while attending Cambridge University, he heard D.L. Moody preach and was wondrously converted. He soon dedicated his life to Christ and spent hours seeking to convert his teammates. Sensing God’s leading to full-time service, he offered himself to Hudson Taylor for missionary work in China.
While in that foreign country, he inherited a sum of money equivalent today to $500,000. In twenty-four hours he gave the entire inheritance away, investing it in the things of the Lord. Later he was forced to go back to England; for his health was failing, and his wife was an invalid. But God called him again- this time to the heart of Africa. He was informed that if he went, he would not live long. His only answer was that he had been looking for a chance to die for Jesus. “Faithful unto death,” he accepted God’s call and labored until the Savior took him home.
THOUGHT: Missions is the business of every Christian- either to go or to send
Day 1- Matthew 28:18-20- Fulfill the Great Commission
Day 2- Mark 16:15; Luke 24:47-48- Go to the whole world
Day 3- Acts 13:1-3- Missionaries sent by the Spirit through the local church
Day 4- Acts 15:36-41; 16:1-5- Establish other local churches
Day 5- Acts 16:16-24- Must be willing to suffer
Day 6- Acts 16:25-40- Have God’s Protection
Day 7- Acts 1:6-8- We are all missionaries
Weekly Objective
Tell Someone About Christ
