Ministering to Saints and Sinners

The church has a mission on this earth. We have the great commission that Jesus gave us - to preach the Gospel to every creature and to the ends of the earth. But that is not all of the church's mission. The New Testament has far more to say about ministering to the saints than preaching to the lost. This has been a major failure of the modern church. Jesus told Peter to "feed my sheep." The sheep must be spiritually healthy, strong, and of a sound mind in order to carry out the great commission with any effectiveness.