Every Member Evangelism by J.E. Conant

• Title Page
• Introduction
• The Divine Program
  • Scripture Exposition
    • The Program Unfolded
    • The Program Illustrated
    • The Program Perpetuated
  • Practical Application
    • We Must Go Individually
    • We Must Go Systematically
  • Satanic Opposition
    • How Satan Hindered the Divine Program
    • How Satan Keeps the Divine Program Hindered
• The Divine Purpose
• The Divine Power
• Every-Member Evangelism in Operation

The Church’s Mission

If we set the pre-crucifixion and pre-ascension words of Christ all down by themselves and give them careful study, we cannot fail to notice that the word “witness” is the key to all of them.

And if we analyze them we shall find that witnessing is to be the main work of the whole Church in the whole world throughout the whole Age.*

Notice how this is all summed up in the Great Commission as Mark (Mark 6:15) gives it to us, with one phrase from Matthew added (Matthew 28:20).

“Go ye” is a command to every Christian; that is, to the whole Church.

“Into all the world” certainly includes every Christian’s personal world, for it takes all the personal worlds of all Christians scattered abroad over the earth added together to cover the geographical world. That is, the whole Church is to go into the whole world.

“And preach the Gospel,” if it means anything, must certainly mean to witness, or to tell the Good News of salvation through Christ, and this defines the central activity of the Church. That is, witnessing is the main work of the whole Church throughout the whole world; while “to every creature” makes it the individual work of every Christian to every unsaved one.

And then Matthew adds Christ’s promise, “Lo,

*Dr. Arthur T. Pierson says that witnessing is the “whole work of the whole Church for the whole Age.”