“The Student Movement renders the further important service of trying to place upon every student who is to go out to the non-Christian world to engage in other than the missionary calling, a burden of responsibility for advancing the interests of Christ’s Kingdom….In filling these men with the determination to make their influence tell for Christ, the Student Movement is doing a work scarcely less valuable than the raising up of an equal number of missionaries.”
John Mott, The Decisive Hour Of Missions, pp. 136-137
Today in CCC’s campus ministry, there is a renewed call to set a goal of sending 100% of students who graduate from our movements to influence the world for Jesus, not just those who decide to go into what we call “full-time Christian work.” That effort has been branded, “100% Sent.”
These words from John Mott, founder of the Student Volunteer Movement, were written about 100 years before anyone in Campus Crusade for Christ thought of the term “100% sent.” Pretty amazing, isn’t it?
Here’s the deal: Your movement has to give much effort and lift to sending everyone as a missionary. Gene Appel of Eastside Christian Church said this past weekend, “God takes a full-time minister and disguises them as a police officer, a teacher, a government worker…” Everyone is a full-time minister, it’s simply your setting that changes.
Well said, Bob. We were talking about this in our RD meeting today. Who knew Mott was on the case? Well, you did apparently.
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Before Holly gave me the book, I had no idea a book by Mott even existed!
Thanks for reading the blog and for your comment. Are you guys coming up with any 100% sent strategies?
Posted by: Bob Fuhs | 10/07/2009 at 07:14 PM