Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Matthew 10:5-15
by: Paul Andries.
What is the mission? It is to "Go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (v. 6). Why? Go to them because they are lost and in desperate need to find the Good Shepherd. False prophets (shepherds) had caused them to be scattered, wandering aimlessly in a dangerous world.
The apostles did learn, and the church needs to know that signs and wonders were never intended for self-exaltation or group-glorification. Rather, they were to confirm the physical presence of the Deliverer. There was, and should be today, an urgency to proclaim the good news to the lost-the Messiah had come to save people from their sins.