God’s love, God’s Son, God’s command, God’s purpose

‘When the Holy Spirit comes on you... you will be My witnesses... to the ends of the earth’ (Acts 1:8).

This great advance of the Gospel - Salvation reaches ‘the Gentiles’ (Acts 10:45; 11:1,18) - is a movement of ‘the Spirit’ (Acts 11:12).

The Spirit speaks through the Word (Acts 10:44; 11:15).

In God’s Word, we read of

(a) God’s love for the whole world (John 3:16);

(b) God’s Son who died for ‘the sins of the whole world’ (John 1:29; 1 John 2:2);

(c) God’s command that ‘the Good News’ should be preached to ‘everyone’ (Mark 16:15);

(d) God’s purpose that there should be disciples of Christ in every nation (Matthew 28:19).

‘Every person in every nation, in each succeeding generation, has the right to hear the News that Christ can save... Here am I, send me’ (Youth Praise,128). ‘Go forth and tell!’ (Mission Praise, 178).