How Can They Hear without a Preacher?

The mission of the Church is to make disciples. Together we are to reach every nation on the earth for Jesus Christ. As we share the Gospel with the lost we often use verses from the book of Romans such as Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23, and Romans 5:8. Some of my favorites are in Romans, chapter 10 such as verses 9 and 10 “...if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”, verse 13 “...whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”, and verse 17 “...faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” In the midst of this collection of wonderful salvation verses these compelling questions are raised: “How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent?” Romans 10:14-15 If the Church is to accomplish its God-given mission it must produce preachers of God’s Word and it must send those preachers out to preach. Both of these essential components of missions work come from God’s own hand. (Eph. 4:11; 1 Chron. 29:12-14) Therefore we must begin with prayer. “...The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.” Luke 10:2 (NKJV) The mission of reaching the lost world is so great, what can WE do? We can pray, we can give, and we can go!