The apostle John wrote, “Beloved, you are acting faithfully in whatever you accomplish for the brethren, and especially when they are strangers; and they have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God. For they went out for the sake of the Name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles. Therefore we ought to support such men, so that we may be fellow workers with the truth” (3 John 5-8).

John was writing about a man who cared for fellow Christians who were traveling evangelists or ministers sent by their church as messengers of the gospel of Christ. John praised Gaius, to whom John addressed this third letter, because he demonstrated his faith by providing for their needs, even though they were strangers to him. Apparently, these men whom we now would call missionaries testified to the church of the love that Gaius exhibited as he enabled them to continue their mission “in a manner worthy of God.” Most likely, he supplied them with shelter, money, food and clothing or otherwise showed them hospitality and gave them necessities for their journey.

Today, we need more people like Gaius, people who recognize the needs of missionaries who are dedicating their lives “for the sake of the Name.” It should be plain to us that missionaries need prayer, financial support, Christian hospitality and care. Whether the fulfillment of these needs comes through a denominational mission board or a mission agency or through the missionaries presenting their ministry to churches and individuals and seeking support — someone must see the need and pray; someone must care; someone must give.

Why should it be difficult for pastors and churches to understand the needs of missionaries? They have the same needs as anyone else, but because of the nature of their work it is more difficult for them to secure what they need. They are not working for a company, selling some commodity, rendering a service for which people are ready to pay. Instead, they are giving their time, effort and their lives to labor “for the sake of the Name,” to make known the name of Jesus Christ and give people the opportunity to receive forgiveness of their sins and the gift of eternal life through faith in Him. Priceless — but it comes with a price. The rest of the Body of Christ must give what it takes to enable the missionaries whom God has called to do the hard work of obeying the missionary mandate of Jesus. As John says, “we ought to support such men, so that we may be fellow workers with the truth.” As we “send them on their way in a manner worthy of God” providing for their needs, we become partners with the missionaries in the work of reaching the world for Christ.

Pastors and churches that are introverted and spend all their resources on themselves and their buildings are not focusing on eternal values and are not investing in building the Kingdom of God. Why must missionaries spend so much of their time and energy imploring churches to help them? Why must mission boards have to bring their missionaries home because of lack of funds to keep them on the field? Is it the economy or is it an unwillingness on the part of Christians to sacrifice for the sake of the gospel of Christ?

We need to be “Macedonian Christians” whom Paul lifted up as an example, “that according to their ability, and beyond their ability, they gave of their own accord, begging us with much urging for the favor of participation in the support of the saints” (2 Corinthians 8:3-4). When have you heard of Christians in our churches begging “with much urging for the favor of participation in the support of the saints”? Now, we see missionaries “begging” the saints for support.

At Siloam Missionary Homes, we provide “A Place Missionaries Call Home” at the most reasonable cost possible to help the many missionaries who are so under supported. We can do that only as individuals, churches, agencies and businesses give to help us subsidize the housing requirements. As Christians, we must open our hearts and give to meet the needs of those whom God has called to take the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world and partner with those, like Siloam Missionary Homes, who assist them.

H. Milton Wilder
Missionary Pastoral Care

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It’s difficult to understand how some Christians can read the Bible, affirm their belief in it as the word of God and yet say, “We have no business going to other countries trying to force our religion on them. Why don’t we just run our church af­fairs here and mind our own business?” Do you know people who believe like that? Perhaps this last article and the three previous ones in the series may help you convince them that Jesus calls us to take His gospel of truth to the entire world, whether they have a religion or no religion.

In Matthew 28:19-20, Jesus commissioned us with three primary tasks to fulfill in reaching the world with the message of salvation.

Jesus calls us to Evangelize: “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations (ethic groups).” As you go, go in obedience whether to the lost one next-door, in a remote jungle or sophisticated metropolis.. It’s not an either/or (home or foreign) for the Christian, but a both/and commandment (“all the nations”).

Jesus calls us to Baptize: “baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,” which involves planting churches, increasing the Christian com­munity around the world, gathering them into the fellowship of believers in identification with Jesus Christ; others know they belong to Him.

Jesus calls us to Teach: “teaching them to observe all that I commanded you.” We work to develop believers and help them grow into the likeness of Christ, to be obedient to Him in all things through building and teaching in churches, schools, training centers, seminaries, teaching others to obey His commandments and to meet human needs by establishing hospitals, clinics, agriculture and food programs, and many other kinds of spiritual and physical ministry.

John 17 is the High Priestly Prayer of Jesus, the Lord’s Prayer for His disciples and for all who would believe in Him as a result of their testimony. Here, Jesus again speaks of sending “into the world” those who believe in Him:

“As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.” (John 17:18-23, The New American Standard Bible, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation)

Twice in these few verses, Jesus prayed that we might be one, “perfected in unity,” the same unity that exists in the Father and the Son. Did you catch the purpose of this, “so that the world may believe that You sent Me” and “so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me”? He prayed that the world might believe and know be­cause of unity among believers. Do we have that unity in the Body of Christ? It is not thinking exactly alike on every detail, but being one in the spirit of Christ and in knowing our pur­pose as believers. Otherwise, we hinder the work of Christ in the world He came to save. We must be one in recognizing that Christ as Head of the Church has told us plainly in His commandments what the Church’s business is.

To enable us to accomplish the task that Jesus gave us to go into all the world, He promised that He would provide His power. He said, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.” He also said, “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you” (Acts l:8). Let’s get on with minding our business of winning a lost world to Jesus Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit that Jesus Himself has given us.

If anyone reading this is a part of that lost world who needs Jesus, you can receive Him as your Savior and Lord today. Contact us and we will help you in your decision to take that step or click here.

H. Milton Wilder
Missionary Pastoral Care

“People in those other countries have their own religions, their own way of life, their own cultures. We have no business going to other countries trying to force our religion on them. Why don’t we just run our church af­fairs here and mind our own business?” So said a member of a Sunday School class. Clearly, he did not understand what the business of the church is. Jesus has called us to “mind our own business” of reaching this changing, growing, dying world with the Gospel of Christ. In this third article in a series, I mention three interrelated principles or truths to which we must commit ourselves if we are to accomplish the task.

1. We must commit ourselves to the truth of one God, revealed in the Person of Jesus Christ.
In 1 Corinthians 8:6 we read, “Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.” Ephesians 4:5-6 tells us of “one Lord, one faith, one bap­tism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.”
In John 17:3, Jesus defines eternal life: “‘This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.’” If we believe there are many gods and that all reli­gions are true, that people can know the One God apart from Jesus Christ, then we ought to run our church affairs here and not give a dime to missions. But if we believe in the One True God revealed and known only through Jesus Christ, then we must do all we can to go and tell people everywhere about Him.

2. We must commit ourselves to the truth that there is one human race.
In Acts 17:26, Paul preached to the Athenians that God “made from one man (or ‘one blood’) every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth.” We may speak of different races, but in God’s sight, there is only the human race. Peter said, “God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean…. I most certainly under­stand now that God is not one to show partiality, but in every nation the man who fears Him and does what is right is welcome to Him.” (Acts 10:28, 34-35). There are no foreigners in the Christian family; to God, the people to whom we witness in other lands are not foreigners any more than we are. They have the same emotions, hopes, problems, the same sins and the same need for a Savior as the people in our home country, “for there is no distinction; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:22-23). Because of this need …

3. We must commit ourselves to the truth of one salvation.
The man in the Sunday School class who wanted the church to mind its own business, did not believe that there is one salvation. Those who won’t help to send missionaries don’t believe this truth. We must return to Acts 4:12 so often, which says about Jesus, “And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved.” Jesus Himself declared, “I am the way, and the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me” (John 14:6). There are not many “politically correct” ways to God, which are all equally valid, but the “audacity” of Jesus Christ says and the faith of true Christians says, there is only one way to God and that is through and in the name of Jesus Christ. If we are committed to the truth that Christ is the only hope for the human race, then we must pray, give and go to offer every human being the opportunity to receive Him and His gift of eternal life.

This is the second in a series of articles to convince you or help you convince others of our need as Christians to “mind our own business.” First, we determined that our business is obeying the command of Jesus found in the four Gospels and the Book of Acts to take His message of salvation to the world. Since the world then, is our place of business, we need to remember some simple facts about our territory.

• This Is A Changing World. The church is often the last to recognize this fact, and continues to function in the same way it has for generations. Jesus Christ is the same today, yesterday and tomor­row. The Gospel will never change, but the world to which He has sent us changes continually. September 11, 2001 radically changed our country and world. Racial and language factors, cultures and customs, concepts of morali­ty, political situations go through rapid transitions. Borders and names of countries change so frequently that maps are quickly out of date. Think of the centrality of the computer, email, instant messaging and instant news from around the world. More than 39 million Americans, slightly more than 14% of the population, changed their addresses last year. Look at the changes in our own communities; farmland turned into housing developments, lifestyles that make former methods of reaching people ineffective. The church is not a center of community life as it once was. We cannot ignore these factors and we need constantly to rethink how we can change to reach the broader world as well as the world around us with the Gospel of Christ. “We’ve never done it that way before” are words of a stagnant and dying church.
• This Is A Growing World. The International Data Base of the U.S. Census Bureau’s website projects births in 2010 to be 131,940,516, about the same number born every year. On March 1, 2010, the estimated world population was 6,819,416,692; that is 25,823,006 more than on January 1, 2010. With population increase, there are growing problems of health, standards of living, tensions, wars, racial hatred, refugees, and spiritual emptiness. The church’s business is to reach these multiplying millions to meet their needs and problems, because not only is this a growing world –
• This Is Also A Dying World. At least 56,545,138 will die this year, about two per second, millions of them entering eternity without Jesus Christ. We can’t keep them from dying, but we can work to reach them for Christ to prepare them. (Note: The number of deaths stated does not include the 40-50 million babies who are killed by abortion each year, approximately 125,000 per day. See http://www.worldometers.info/.) About 33% of the world’s population is Christian, including all who claim to be Christian. About 7% are evangelical Christians, meaning those who “emphasize commitment to per­sonal faith, conversion and evangelism” (Johnston & Mandryk, Operation World). If Jesus Christ is the answer to life and death (and He is) and promises abundant and eternal life through a personal relationship with Him (and He does), then it follows that we must take the message of His love, forgiveness and salvation to the entire world just as He has told us to do.

H. Milton Wilder
Missionary Pastoral Care

Some church members have never received Christ as Savior. We would not expect them to believe in missions outreach or even in evangelism. However, though it seems to be in the category of an oxymoron, some Christians do not believe in missions. I won’t discuss possible reasons for this phenomenon. Instead, I will offer, in the course of a few articles, some thoughts to help such Christians change their hearts and minds and/or help missions-minded Christians in presenting a convincing “argument” for what our Lord has called us to do.

Pastor W. T. Holland said that while he was a seminary student he taught a Sunday School Class. One Sunday he was presenting the lesson on missions when a member of the class made a remark that shocked and upset him. The member said, “People in those other countries have their own religions, their own way of life, their own cultures. We have no business going to other countries trying to force our religion on them. Why don’t we just run our church af­fairs here and mind our own business?” Few church members would openly say that, but too many feel that way. The man did have a point, at least in part of what he said. We really ought to mind our own business as a church and as individual Christians, but first we had better know what that business is.

It is not very difficult to discover the business we ought to mind. Jesus stated clearly in all four gospels and the book of Acts what our business is as His followers:

• Matthew 28:19-20: “‘Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.’”
• Mark 16:15: “‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.’”
• Luke 24:46-48: “‘Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day, and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.’”
• John 17:18: Jesus prayed to His Father, “‘As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world….’”
• John 20:21: Jesus said to His disciples, “‘Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you.’”
• Acts 1:8: “‘… you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”

Jesus made it plain that as His Church, our place of business is the world. Our business is to take to the world the gospel truth that Jesus Christ through His life, death, burial and resurrection provides salvation and eternal life for all who believe. As His Father sent Him into the world, even so He has sent us into the world. You may refuse to obey what He said, but you cannot deny that His word tells us what our business is. As Oswald J. Smith (1889-1986), founder and pastor of The People’s Church in Toronto, Canada put it, “The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world.”

In this constantly changing world in which we are never sure what will happen next, we can rejoice in the certainty that our one and only Savior, Jesus Christ is “the same yesterday and today and forever” (Hebrews 13:8). Jesus Christ does not need to change because He is perfect. Change is necessary only in people or other created things that are imperfect. We are not perfect. Therefore, we need to change. Our goal as followers of Christ is to become continually more like our unchanging Lord, to live in conformity to what He has taught us by His words and life, relying on the power of His Spirit living within us. That’s the kind of change we can believe in!

Churches, church-related organizations, such as mission agencies need to change, to “upgrade” the means and the materials used in order to accomplish the Lord’s mission more skillfully and efficiently. It is interesting to note how church people often dig in their heels to resist change while the message of Jesus Christ is all about changing people’s hearts. You have heard the oft-quoted line from Mark Twain, “The only person who likes change is a wet baby.” That is certainly true in the church. Making changes in almost any area is a risky and usually slow procedure. For example, I remember when nearly every business in the country was using computers and related information technology, but it took years to overcome the resistance in order to equip the church office with the bare minimum.

Yet, we don’t resist change when it comes to our home and work life. Look around your house. You don’t do your laundry using a washboard, or read at night by the light of an oil lamp. Notice all the electrical and electronic items. Do you see many farmers in our country using a mule to pull a plow? Look around the parking lot at church on Sunday morning and you’ll see the result of change and “upgrades.” Why, then, is it so difficult to make changes in the church?

A partial answer may be a quote of Christian scholar and church historian, Jaroslav Pelikan, in Christianity Today. In making the distinction between tradition and traditionalism, he said, “Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.” He noted that tradition looks back and learns from the past, but recognizes that we must make decisions based on where we are now. On the other hand, “Traditionalism supposes that nothing should ever be done for the first time,” so he says we try to solve any problem by whatever we did in the past. [Jaroslav Pelikan, interview in U.S. News & World Report (June 26, 1989). Christianity Today, Vol. 33, no. 13.] “Traditionalism” is the approach the church too often takes.

One significant area where Christians need to change is in giving habits that handicap mission agencies and missionaries in trying to take the message of Christ to the world. Some Christians are giving the same amount that they gave 10, 25 or even 30 years ago! Missionaries have to spend years, driving thousands of miles to contact churches and individual Christians to gain enough monthly financial support to take the gospel where God has called them to go. This may be discouraging as well as physically and emotionally exhausting, energy that would be better spent in fulfilling their ministry on the field. Where are today’s “Macedonian Christians” whom Paul described as “begging us with much urging for the favor of participation in the support of the saints” (2 Corinthians 8:4)?  We must put a priority on making Christ known and it takes sacrificial giving to accomplish the task. That may call for a change in our lives to give more than the change in our pockets. The New Year is a good time to begin.

We should not consider everything old as inferior and feel we are so much wiser now, more intellectual and advanced than were people from another era. The wisdom, knowledge and skills of the past are the building blocks that have allowed us to reach the level at which we are now. Few today surpass the depth of understanding expressed in the writings and exploits of the people of God in church history. The Word of God, the message and mission that Jesus gave the Church are as essential and have the same urgency now as then. However, we will stagnate and die unless we take advantage of the current resources available to us. We must use them to find ways and means to study, learn, grow spiritually, communicate His message and implement His mission effectively in our community and world as it is now.

H. Milton Wilder
Missionary Pastoral Care

As we approach the special time to celebrate that glorious event of history when God became one of us in our Lord Jesus Christ, we wish you all the joy, peace, and hope that His coming means. When we know Jesus Christ as our Savior we truly have all the reason we need to rejoice at the Christmas season. Not only do we celebrate His birth into the world, but we also celebrate  our own New Birth into God’s eternal family. Through receiving Him as the One who was crucified and died for our sins, was buried and resurrected He has become our life and salvation.

To the rest of the world Christmas is merely a time to express “Season’s Greetings” or “Happy Holidays” in order to avoid any Christian content. Yet, what reason is there to have Christmas without pointing to the Christ  in Christmas? Letting the world know that God has come in Jesus Christ to give salvation to whoever will believe in Him is the message that the missionaries who come to Siloam Missionary Homes want to share with the world. The staff here are thankful to have a part in providing for the missionaries’ needs to help them proclaim that message.

As we prepare to gather with family and friends and share gifts may we keep in mind that the example for our giving is God Himself: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16). He did not come to give us material gifts such as we give. He came to give Himself. Let us give ourselves to others and be a blessing to them as God in Christ is to us. Then our other gifts will be much more meaningful.

May the Savior who is “the reason for the season” grant to you all the blessings of His love at this Christmastime and all through the coming year.

H. Milton Wilder
Missionary Pastoral Care

You may have read some interest­ing statistics similar to those listed in a book called Margin, by Dr. Richard A. Swenson, M.D. I’m quoting with a few terse comments of my own in brackets.

Dr. Swenson says, “In a lifetime, the average American will:

• Spend six months sitting at traffic lights waiting for them to change. [If you travel in some cities, it will probably be 12 months!]
• Spend one year searching through desk clutter looking for misplaced objects. [At my age, I'm sure I've already spent that much time.]
• Spend eight months opening junk mail. [I always open my junk mail. You never know….]
• Spend two years trying to call people who aren’t in or whose line is busy. [Doesn’t everybody have an answering machine and return your calls right away?]
• Spend five years waiting in lines. [Only five years!?]
• Spend three years in meetings. [I've exceeded that for sure.]
• Learn how to operate twenty thousand different things, from pop machines to can openers to digital radio controls. [Computers, DVD players, PDAs, cell phones, TV remotes, etc., etc.]
• Commute forty-five minutes every day. [Thankfully, I live across the road from Siloam Missionary Homes.]
• Be interrupted seventy-three times every day. (The average manager is interrupted every eight minutes.)
• Receive 600 adver­tising messages every day (television, newspapers, magazines, radio, bill­boards). [Enough to warp your mind.]
• Travel 7,700 miles every year.
• Watch 1,700 hours of television every year.
• Open six hundred pieces of mail every year”

Richard A. Swenson, M. D., Margin (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 1992), pp. 149-150.

You have probably seen another such list like the one I saw hanging on the wall of a business:

“If God granted you 70 years to live, you would spend

• 24 years sleeping
• 14 years working
• 8 years in amusement
• 6 years at the dinner table
• 5 years in transportation
• 4 years in conversation
• 3 years in education
• 3 years reading
• 3 years watching TV.

If you went to church every Sunday, prayed 5 minutes every morning and night, you would be giving God 5 months of your life — 5 months out of 70 years.”

Time is what we say we never have enough of — even though there are 24 hours in every day. The apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthians, “the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal” (2 Corinthians 4:18). Time is the only dimension in which we can prepare for eter­nity. Why is it, then, that the primary focus of our 24-hour day is on “the things which are seen” that cannot last, while “the things which are not seen,” the things of the Spirit of God that last for eternity, get so little of our time? The famous Scottish preacher, Thomas Chalmers explained why he changed from an emphasis on teaching mathematics to giving his main attention to his pastoral duties and preaching, by affirming that he “had forgotten the two greatest magnitudes of all. I had no thought for the shortness of time, and I had recklessly forgotten the vastness of eternity.”

“The shortness of time and … the vast­ness of eternity” — that is why we need to see missions as a priority as well as why we have a ministry of caring at Siloam Missionary Homes for those who “Go into all the world and preach the gospel.” There is an urgency in getting the message of salvation in Jesus Christ to the world. So many have never heard the truth and so many have so little time to hear.

I’m sure we will each stop and give deep thought and meditation to all of this — when we have time.

H. Milton Wilder
Missionary Pastoral Care

We don’t want government control, but at the same time, many of us are appalled at the ostentatious display of wealth in our country (such as, for example, the single family house for sale in Washington, DC for $11,750,000) when there are such great human needs around us. The real issue, however, is not the amount of money we have, but our Lord’s judgment as to how we use what He has given us. This involves the attitude we have towards money and the motive of our heart as we use it. You can be just as selfish and self-centered with $10 as you can with $10,000.

Being wealthy is relative. Compared to literally millions of peoples, you and I are rich, even though we may be “just getting by.” The truth is that we could be doing without numerous “things,” but we want them! In many instances, not in every case, the reason both husband and wife work or the reason one takes a second job, is not to make ends meet, but simply to have more of what society or the latest advertisement says we must have to be successful or happy or healthy or comfortable. The family could do with a few less things in order to have more of each other. The material things around us keep hid­ing from our minds what God says is one of the main purposes for gaining income from work: “Let him who steals steal no longer; but rather let him labor, performing with his hands what is good, in order that he may have something to share with him who has need” (Ephesians 4:28). Will a man steal from God, Malachi asked (Malachi 3:8), when he should give to God by sharing “with him who has need?”

As individuals and as churches, we keep on see­ing ourselves as the ones who have “needs” — but sometimes “needs” are simply “wants” in disguise. Jesus told the young man who wanted to know what “good thing” he could do to have eternal life, “‘If you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me’” (Matthew 19:16). But the young man had too much to give it away. About the Macedonian Christians Paul said, “that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality. For I testify that according to their ability, and beyond their ability they gave of their own accord….” (2 Corinthians 8:2-3). They had too little to keep it for themselves.

Paul writes also in 2 Corinthians 8:9, “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.” The riches of heaven are ours because Jesus Christ gave up the glory of heaven and became poor. Are we willing to follow His example and become poor so that others might receive the Gospel and become spiritually rich? The amount we have is not the issue. The issue is where is our heart? Is heaven really where we want our treasure to be located? Which are we more concerned about; gaining spiritual riches for others and ourselves or gaining dollars and cents? Are the souls of those without Christ worth more to us than _____ ? At what point have we done “enough”? At what point have we given “enough”?

Take time to contemplate seriously what all this has to do with missionaries and missionary care and your personal responsibility.

H. Milton Wilder
Missionary Pastoral Care