The Responsibility of the Local Church in Discerning Missionary Call

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Published: May 1, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31046/eqn27z07
Keywords:
ecclesiology, local church, commissioning, baptist, established-church location, unreached, evangelist, missionary calling, missionary assessment, missionary deployment

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Ricky Don Wilhelm

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This article proposes 1 Timothy 4:12-14 as a biblical model which acknowledges both God’s activity and the authority of a local church in assessing missionary candidates and concludes with a warning about the ecclesiological dangers in allowing subjective call to drive the decision for sending a missionary.

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023): Perspectives on Healthy Church Formation
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Peer-reviewed Articles
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