“所以，你们要去，使万民作我的门徒，……给他们施洗”（太28:19）。{FH.100.1}
常有人呼吁我们的各教会奉献礼物和供物，来支持国内的传道机构和国外的传道工作。……各教会都应恳求上帝，使大家更加热心，更加慷慨。凡与基督心相契合的人，必乐意去做任何能够帮助上帝圣工的事。他们必因圣工的不断拓张和发展而高兴，这意味着需要更多更经常的捐献。{FH.100.2}
我们应认识到自己有权借着奉献金钱，在世上开设实现祂旨意的事业而与上帝同工。凡拥有基督之灵的人，必有温柔同情的心和慷慨大方的手。专注于基督，是不会有自私之心的。……{FH.100.3}
请想一想我们全世界传道园地的需要。我们的传道士在艰苦努力地工作，但他们的工作常常因库中空虚而大大受阻，得不到使他们的工作获得最大成功所必需的设施。但愿上帝帮助那些受托以今世财物的人醒悟过来，明白祂的计划和他们个人的责任。上帝对他们说：我使你拥有我的货财，为要叫你利用它推进要在远近各处建立的基督徒传道园地。……{FH.100.4}
并非人人都能到国外去做传道士，但人人都能在自己的领域做有待他们去做的工作。人人都能奉献自己的金钱推进国外的传道工作。……{FH.100.5}
上帝必鼓励祂忠心的管家，就是那班随时准备尽量利用自己一切精力和上帝所赐天赋的人。当众人学习忠心地将上帝应得之分归还给祂的教训之时，祂就必本着自己的美意能使某些人奉献大笔礼物。祂也必使其它的人有能力奉献较小的礼物。只要奉献的人专注于祂的荣耀，则大小礼物都一样的蒙祂悦纳。“那赐种给撒种的，赐粮给人吃的，必多多加给你们种地的种子，又增添你们仁义的果子；叫你们凡事富足，可以多多施舍，就借着我们使感谢归于上帝”（林后9:10,11）。——《评论与通讯》1912年4月18日。{FH.100.6}
For the Mission Fields, March 29
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them.?Matthew 28:19.?{FH 100.1}[1]
Our churches are often appealed to for gifts and offerings to aid missionary enterprises in the home field and to sustain the missionary work abroad.... From every church prayers should ascend to God for an increase of devotion and liberality. Those whose hearts are knit with the heart of Christ will be glad to do what they can to help the cause of God. They will rejoice in the continual expansion and advancement, which means larger and more frequently given offerings.?{FH 100.2}[2]
We may well feel that it is a privilege to be laborers together with God by giving of our means to set in operation that which will carry out His purposes in the world. All who possess that Spirit of Christ will have a tender, sympathetic heart and an open, generous hand. Nothing can be really selfish that has Christ for its absorbing object....?{FH 100.3}[3]
Consider the necessities of our mission fields throughout the world. Our missionaries labor hard and earnestly, but often they are greatly hindered in their work because the treasury is empty, and they cannot be given facilities necessary for the greatest success of their labor. May God help those who have been entrusted with this world’s goods to awaken to His design and to their individual responsibilities. God says to them, I have put you in possession of My goods that you may trade upon them to carry forward the Christian missions that are to be established far and near....?{FH 100.4}[4]
Not all can go as missionaries to foreign lands, but all can do the work waiting for them in their own neighborhood. All can give of their means for the carrying forward of foreign missionary work....?{FH 100.5}[5]
God will encourage His faithful stewards who are ready to put all their energies and God-given endowments to the very best use. As all learn the lesson of faithfully rendering to God what is His due, He through His providence will enable some to bring princely offerings. He will enable others to make smaller offerings; and the small and the large gifts are acceptable to Him if given with an eye single to His glory. “He that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness; being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.”—The Review and Herald, April 18, 1912.?{FH 100.6}[6]
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