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Evangelism
15 You yourselves also know,
Philippians, that at the first preaching of the gospel, after I left
Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but
you alone; 16 for even in Thessalonica you sent a gift more than once for my
needs.
Philippians 4:15-16
Even so do
the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.1
Corinthians 9:14
8 I robbed other
churches, taking wages (of them) that I might minister unto you; 9 and when I
was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the
brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and
in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and (so) will I
keep (myself)
2 Corinthians 11:8-9
Local
churches in the first century
did not hire preachers.
These congregations
did not send funds to evangelistic organizations
or
missionary societies which, in turn, selected and sent out preachers. Nor did
first century congregations of saints send funds to another congregation which
was "sponsoring" some evangelist.
As the passages
above indicate when New Testament local churches engaged in evangelism
they provided wages to one or more evangelists, enabling these men to engage
in the work of an evangelist. This method is simple, but effective, and, above
all, scriptural. It is this method that the Parkway church uses as it sends
wages to
Michael Hurst on the Caribbean island of
St. Croix and
Epafradito Sandoval
in Valle
Hermoso, Mexico
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