1: What Is My Purpose as a Missionary? – Preach My Gospel
We need to extend the offer of the restored gospel to everyone. Many people aren’t in the church just because they don’t know about it. It’s our job to make sure everyone knows what’s available. It’s not up to us if they decide to join or not. They still have thier own agency. And God will judge thier behavior in the church, not us. Our job is simply to let everyone have the opportunity to come to Christ. It’s up to them if they take it.
This is the Gospel of salvation that God has revealed. Every human being that has ever been born upon the face of the earth, every human being that ever will be born will hear these glad tidings of salvation proclaimed by those who have authority to administer it unto fallen man, whether they lived before Jesus, whether they lived at the time of or since Jesus, or whether they will live yet in the future. They cannot hear the Gospel. They cannot be judged until they do hear it. Every principle of salvation will be proclaimed to those who have died without the privilege of hearing it in the flesh—they must hear it in the spirit world as well as those who hear it in the flesh. … We see by this that God will not consign any soul to endless torment without first giving him an opportunity of receiving or rejecting the Gospel. … Some men who never heard the name of Jesus have lived according to the light that God gave them; for God has given to every man that is born into the world, according to the revelations we have received, His Spirit. He has given unto every man and woman His Spirit, not the gift of the Holy Ghost, but His Spirit by which they are led and guided. Some call it the light of conscience, the voice of conscience. No man ever committed a wrong that listened to that voice without being chided for it, whether he be Christian or heathen, whether he has lived according to the light of the Gospel or been in entire ignorance of it. Every man has within him a spirit which comes from our Great Creator, and if we grieve it not it leads us, guides us, though we may not know the Gospel, as has been the case with many thousands and millions of human beings. It leads all the children of men when they listen to it; it leads them in the path of peace, in the path of virtue, in the path of happiness; but if they violate that spirit or grieve it, if they go contrary to its monitions, if they harden their hearts against and sin against it, then it departs, and another spirit takes its place, namely, the spirit of the evil One.
God has organized a plan for everyone to come back to him, because God is merciful. He is our father, and loves us as much – if not more – than a father loving his children. He wants all of us to come back. If there’s just 1 sheep gone astray from the other 99, he will go back and find it. He will not abandon any of us in the dark and dreary waste. If someone opens thier heart and mind to the gospel, they will find it and they will receive it joyfully. Our job is just to make sure they can find it when they’re ready. God will help them open thier heart and mind to prepare them to receive the gospel, we just need to assume that they have been prepared and share the gospel with them. And if we have the ability to share the gospel with someone, then God has made sure that they have been prepared to receive it already. God knows everything, and knows the best way for us to share the gospel, and the best way for others to receive it.