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Lessons of Our Mission: Impossible

A Scottish RP Church reaches out and finds that the event’s visitors weren’t the only ones who learned something

  —Beth Bogue | Features, Theme Articles | July 05, 2005

Members found prayer to be essential in this endeavor—and their prayers were answered.
Banners announce the evangelistic services


When the Session in Airdrie told us last spring that we were going to have a mission this year, I learned a new use for the word. Up until that time, the word missionconjured up in my head scary music and the words “top secret” and “impossible.”

Our mission was to be a week of special, evangelistic services held Apr. 18-22 from 7–8 p.m. These services would be specifically aimed at unbelievers, and not just any unbelievers, but our unbelieving friends, neighbors, and relatives.

Lesson #1—Aim High

Pastor Andrew Quigley made it very clear, through a series of sermons based on John 15 about bearing much fruit, what the goal of our mission would be. We wanted to see men and women come hear the preaching of the Word of God, and, through the power of the Holy Spirit, be brought to faith in Christ. We didn’t want to see this happen to just one or two people; we wanted as many people as possible to hear the gospel. We ...