Where Are the Men?

Mary Slessor (1848-1915), a Seceder missionary, serving in present day Nigeria closely followed the events of the 1910 World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. This conference was supposed to spur on the final evangelization of the world. Mary Slessor expected men to rise up and to serve Christ in ordained ministry.

Miss Slessor saw few go into gospel ministry or missions from this and she wrote:

"Surely there is something wrong with our church... Where are the men? Are there no heroes in the making among us? No heart beating high with the enthusiasm of the gospel? Men smile at the old-fashioned idea of sin and hell and a broken law and a perishing world, but these [ideas] made men--men of purpose, of power, and achievement, and self-denying devotion to the highest ideals earth has known."
--Livingston, Mary Slessor of Calabar, 319-320.

So where are the men who are willing to serve the church as pastors and missionaries?

Where are the men willing to rise up and answer that old prophet's call?

"Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me." --Isaiah 6:8.