Every Believer a Soul-Winner
In Andrew Murray’s book, “The Key to the Missionary Problem,” we find the following striking statement concerning the possibilities of personal work:— “If there were only one Christian in the world, and he worked a year and won a friend for Christ, and if these two continued each year to win another, and if every man thus led into the kingdom of Christ led another every year, in thirty-one years every person in the world would be won for Christ.” “Some may doubt the wisdom of calculations which lie altogether beyond the range of possibility or the promises of God’s Word. Others may question the correctness of a calculation which appears to count upon all who become Christians living all through the thirty-one years, while we know that something like one thirtieth of the earth’s population dies each year. Leaving such questions aside, I wish simply to take the principle which forms the basis of the calculation, and to point out what the effect would be if the substantial truth it contains were really believed, and preached, and practiced. That truth is this, that Christ meant every believer to be a soul-winner. Or rather—for this is the deeper truth in which the former has its root and strength—that every believer has been saved with the express purpose that he should make the saving of other souls the main, the supreme, end of his existence in the world.”