Missionary Work by Ministers: Obligations to Engage In

But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to listen to you rather than God.

For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles. …

Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!