“‘All churches’ (whether young or old, whether large or small, whether in a developed or a developing country) ‘should therefore be asking God and themselves’ a searching question, namely ‘what they should be doing both to reach their own area and to send missionaries to other parts of the world.’ Some of the churches planted by the apostles seem almost immediately to have become centers of evangelistic witness (e.g., Rom. 1:8; Phil. 1:5; 4:15; I Thess. 1:6-8; cf., Acts 13:1-3).” – John Stott