Our goal is to train hard working men of God that will know how to carry the Gospel to the common man and have a heart to evangelize the world. We want our men to be trained; if they can’t do it here they can’t do it there.
Getting on an airplane makes you a tourist; it does not make you a missionary. Nothing magical happens between here and there. And the problem is once they print up their prayer card and start their deputation, they are pumped so full of being somebody special they often forget to seek God and to get the training they need.
The students and future leaders should be considered our own spiritual children. Every pastor should have in his heart and mind, “These are my kids. I love them, I will discipline and correct them, but I love them. I will stand by them I will be there every time they have a need.” This is big business.
The pastor is the key to changing the world. The pastor is the key world evangelism. Every student that will be trained should show such an initiative as to constantly be seeking out means to be honoring and serving God; not to be in need to be motivated, to be pushed to be in service. If you have to push them and motivate them, if you have to be constantly behind them, back away, let them alone.
Only train prepared men, self-motivated, self-feeders, that are excited about serving God and getting to the mission field. We will never even imply that we can make a man God but we will serve those who are already called out by the Lord and helping them to get training in the experience. You must fully recognize that it is God that puts his hand on a man to the gospel ministry. It is God that does the work in a man.
We have absolutely no desire to train a man or woman that has failed in everything else or some field that God has called them into the ministry. Amazingly, if they won’t work at another job they won’t work in the ministry. If they’re not full of doing something for God, they won’t carry the gospel around the world.
We don’t want to work with a team or train a man or woman to be a part of a team that are simply trying to get a spouse, simply trying to have something to do, simply lazy bums. We are to train leaders. In Mark 3:14, Jesus came and he came to spend time with men that He might send them forth to preach.
“And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,”
Choose the men wisely. Jesus prayed all night before he chose his men. Those men may not have had great Bible training, those men may not have gone to a Bible college and took theology, but in the book of Acts, when they came into town, they took note of them that they were only common men, but they had been with Jesus. Let’s train men that can carry the gospel message anywhere in the world and tell people about the Lord Jesus.
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