One of my all time favorite books the "The Key to the Missionary Problem" by Andrew Murray. I challenge you to get a copy today. I do not know how to challenge you to purchase and read this book. It should be in every pastor's library. Every person needs to read the book.

69% of the world does not even consider itself Christian in any form. The only way to heaven is through Jesus. He is the way, the truth, and the life. What will we do to get the gospel to the world?

There is no more spiritual and mysterious truth than that Christ our Head is actually and entirely dependent upon the members of His body for carrying out the plans which He, as Head, has formed. It is only spiritual men, and a Church in which spiritual men have influence, that is capable of rightly carrying out Christ’s commands.

 Andrew Murray, The Key to the Missionary Problem (London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1902), 2.

“To the pastor belongs the privilege and the responsibility of solving the foreign missionary problem.”

 Andrew Murray, The Key to the Missionary Problem (London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1902), 5.

“The problem of the divinity school is this: not how to train an occasional man for the foreign field, but how to kindle the missionary passion in every man that passes through the school, that he may thereby become an able minister of Christ.

 Andrew Murray, The Key to the Missionary Problem (London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1902), 5.

It is one thing for a minister to be an advocate and supporter of missions: it is another and very different thing for him to understand that they are the chief end of the Church, and therefore the chief end for which his congregation exists. It is only when this truth masters him in its spiritual power, that he will be able to give the subject of missions its true place in his ministry. As he sees how every believer is called to witness to Christ’s love and claim, how the healthy spiritual life depends on the share the believer takes in work for his Lord, how he has to lead the congregation on to make the extension of Christ’s kingdom the highest object of its corporate existence, he will feel how nothing can enable it to carry this out but a definite consecration to be filled with the Spirit and the love of Christ. And as he then thinks of all the ignorance and worldliness and unbelief that he has to contend with, he will learn that his missionary enthusiasm must be nothing less than the enthusiasm of the Holy Spirit filling him with an intense love to Christ, an intense faith in His power, an intense desire to lead all His disciples to give their lives to making Jesus King over the whole earth.

 Andrew Murray, The Key to the Missionary Problem (London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1902), 10–11.

The Christian young people of America are able to raise the money sufficient for all the missionaries needed to evangelise the world, but the Church is not “properly guiding and educating” them for this. Sunday scholars could do so much—they are not being trained to it. Protestant Christendom counts it “impracticable and visionary” to give fifty thousand men to the foreign work for the service of Christ Jesus and His kingdom: it would be “too great a strain on the resources of the Church.” The Conference and the Churches it represents are not ready to “do their duty.” The Church is not willing “to make Jesus known to the world.” This aim does not “rule its spirit.” In this matter the Church of Christ is not “what she ought to be.”

 Andrew Murray, The Key to the Missionary Problem (London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1902), 24–25.

With the appeal to men there must be the appeal to God. The work is His: He cares for it. The power is His: He gives it. The Church is His: He waits to use it. The world is His: He loves it. He can make His people willing in the day of His power. He will hear the cries of His servants who give Him no rest. He delights to prove His faithfulness in fulfilling His promises. Things cannot go on as they are, if the world is really to be evangelised in this generation.

 Andrew Murray, The Key to the Missionary Problem (London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1902), 34.

And if we ask how it came that this little Church, the least of all, has thus outdone all its older and larger sisters, the answer appears to be this: It alone of all the Churches has actually sought to carry out the great truth, that to gather in to Christ the souls He died to save is the one object for which the Church exists. It alone has sought to teach and train every one of its members to count it their first duty to Him who loved them, to give their life to make Him known to others.

 Andrew Murray, The Key to the Missionary Problem (London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1902), 56.

The three great principles taught by the Holy Spirit in a time of His mighty working,—that the Church exists only for extending the kingdom, that every member must be trained to take part in it, and that the personal experience of the love of Christ is the power that fits for this: to these principles the Brethren have remained true, and it is in this respect that their example speaks to us with such power.

 Andrew Murray, The Key to the Missionary Problem (London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1902), 66.

He is here to you; He is now speaking to you through this meeting as His voice; and you will have to say something to Him, whatever it is, in reply,—as to whether for His service, whether at home or abroad, whether in the commonest round of the most ordinary life till you die, or whether in the high places of the field, you are prepared to live as those that have put their hands in His, and have recognised distinctly that the centre of your life is shifted off self on to Jesus Christ, and that you have distinctly laid down underneath His feet all those desires to attract notice for self’s sake, to get praise, even the least item, that shall terminate in self. You belong to Him if you are His; you are to live as those that belong to Him. All your gains of every kind are to go into your Master’s purse, and He is to decide where, and how, and how long you are to serve.’

 Andrew Murray, The Key to the Missionary Problem (London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1902), 78.

Let the pastor learn and teach that all failure in caring, and giving, and praying, and living for missions, is owing to a feeble superficial spiritual life.

 Andrew Murray, The Key to the Missionary Problem (London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1902), 92.

We have given too much attention to methods and to machinery and to resources, and too little to the Source of Power—the filling with the Holy Ghost. This, I think, you will agree with me, is the great weakness, has been the great weakness, of our service in the past, and, unless remedied, will be the great weakness in the future. We are commanded to be filled with the Spirit. If we are not filled, we are living in disobedience and sin, and the cause of our sin is the cause of Israel’s sin of old—the sin of unbelief.

 Andrew Murray, The Key to the Missionary Problem (London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1902), 96–97.

“I added that I thought the tendency of a collection was to leave upon the mind the impression that the all-important thing was money, whereas no amount of money could convert a single soul. The supreme need was that men and women filled with the Holy Spirit should give themselves to the work, and for the support of such there would never be a lack of funds.

 Andrew Murray, The Key to the Missionary Problem (London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1902), 112.

We want to train every believer to take such an interest in the progress of the work of God’s kingdom that he may feel and bear the burden of its great need, that he may realise the impossibility of its being done without God’s own power, that he may learn to cry for more men and money, and the Spirit’s power, and the ingathering of souls.

 Andrew Murray, The Key to the Missionary Problem (London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1902), 114–115.

The great and burning question of the missionary problem is, How can the Church be brought back to the place where the disciples and the early Church were, when, in the power of the Holy Spirit, they did what no other generation since their time has done?

 Andrew Murray, The Key to the Missionary Problem (London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1902), 119.

let us ever again remember: The Missionary Problem is a personal one.

 Andrew Murray, The Key to the Missionary Problem (London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1902), 134.

That missions are the chief end of the Church. That the chief end of the ministry is to guide the Church in this work, and fit her for it. That the chief end of the preaching in a congregation ought to be to train it to take its part in helping the Church to fulfil her destiny. And that the chief end of every minister in this connection ought to be to seek grace to fit himself thoroughly for this work.

 Andrew Murray, The Key to the Missionary Problem (London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1902), 152.

An essential element in a true missionary revival will be the broken heart and the contrite spirit in view of past neglect and sin.

 Andrew Murray, The Key to the Missionary Problem (London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1902), 180.