understanding of the Christian calling to be Christ’s witnesses? Geneva’s view of missions suggests that it is not. John Stott’s statement on the proper missionary motive helps us consider how to effectively understand and assess Calvin and Geneva’s relationship to missions. Drawing on Romans 1:1–6, Stott writes the following: If God desires every knee to bow to Jesus and every tongue to confess Him, so should we.… The highest of all missionary motives is neither obedience to the Great Commission
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