The call to the Mission Field

Excerpts from a sermon by Rev. Ian Harris entitled "The Call of God to the Mission Field":
Rev. James Morgan (from Presbyterian Synod of Ulster) said in 1833 --
"As soon as anyone knows Christ, he desires that others should know Him too. His love to Him is the measure of his anxiety that others should know Him too. So far as any Church breathes the missionary spirit, it is characterised by the spirit of its Founder; but so far as it wants the missionary spirit, it is destitute of one of the marks of the Church of Christ."
The work of missions is not some Para-church group ministry -- it is the work of the church in its entirety. Every church member ought to have an interest in missions, and potentially is one whom God could call to the field. The individual or the church that lacks the missionary spirit is destitute of one of the marks of the true church of Christ.