This love energetically and creatively encounters every single human need, and the only ones to bear those burdens are the ones who bear the image of the Savior in their lives. Creativity can soon become irrelevant faddishness if it is not constantly checked by the person and work of the Creator who came to redeem completely. Many of us focus on the personal side of this bold statement, but if you'll notice, God never does anything in an individual that does not have almost immediate results for the world. All people need to be saved. All people can be saved.
All people can know they are saved.
As believers in Christ in the Wesleyan tradition, we are world Christians. I have often heard missionaries plead that we in the pews should pray, or give, or go. As I look at Scripture and at my inheritance as a Methodist, I do not think we are free to distinguish between these three too radically. May the Lord bless every motive and effort as you give, and pray, and go to wherever and to whomever he is sending you. Bill Ury is professor of systematic and historic theology at Wesley Biblical Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi.