God wants his lost children to be found.

The Christian Reformed Church intends to be a church where these people can be enfolded, challenged to live for him, and equipped to be his witnesses.

In short, God wants the Christian Reformed Church to "seek the lost, disciple the found.

all for God's glory."

With this challenge clearly in view, more than 1,100 leaders from Christian Reformed churches in every corner of Canada and the U.S. attended at least one of four annual Gathering conferences held from 1990 to 1993. Selected addresses presented at the conferences have been collected and edited for this present volume