UPI is called to world missions because...

Of His Love

• "For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all..." 2 Cor 5:14a

We Want to Please the Savior

• "So we make it our goal to please Him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it." 2 Cor 5:9

Of Coming Judgement

• "For we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience." 2 Cor 5:10-11

Of a Moral Obligation to Serve Others

• "And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf." 2 Cor 5:15

We Are His Ambassadors

• "We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God." 2 Cor 5:20

We Want to Obey the Great Commission & Acts 1:8

• "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations... I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Matthew 28:19-20
• "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be witness in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." Acts 1:8