To Perform Rescue Missions, We Must Understand that Lost People Are Part of the Visible Church
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Therefore, in James 5:19-20, we learn principles about how to perform rescue missions-restoring erring believers back to Christ.īig Question: What principles can be discerned from James 5:19-20 about performing rescue missions in the church-restoring erring believers back to Christ? Possibly having this parable in mind, James concludes this book by challenging believers to seek to restore those who have fallen away from God and his church. Likewise, there are people in the church who have walked with us, ate dinner with us, prayed with us, and worshipped with us, but for some reason fall away from God-turn their backs on him and the church altogether. In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that one of these little ones be lost. What do you think? If someone owns a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go look for the one that went astray? And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.
For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. See that you do not disdain one of these little ones. In fact, Christ gave a parable which pictures these rescue missions called the Parable of the Lost Lamb. Because of this tendency even among those who are part of the church, we need to at times perform rescue missions, like shepherds-seeking to turn back those who have gone astray. However, even after repentance and belief in Christ, we still have a tendency to drift away from God.
Certainly, this is true of all people in that we are born with a sin nature that suppresses the truth of God (Rom 1:18-21), so we can go our own way. In Isaiah 53:6, Isaiah said this in describing Israel and the world in general: “All we like sheep have gone astray we have turned-every one-to his own way and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.” The nature of sheep is to wander away from the flock and the shepherd. How should we perform rescue missions within the church-restoring believers who have stumbled into sin, wrong doctrine, and potentially from the faith? My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, he should know that the one who turns a sinner back from his wandering path will save that person’s soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
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