Office of the President
Are
the
LostReallyLost?
This issue of OMS Outreach presents answers to the
question, “Where are the lost?” Foundational to that is the
question, “Are the lost really lost?” The political correctness of the pluralistic world in which we live may make
the answer more uncertain for some, but for more than a
century, One Mission Society has remained called by and
committed to the proclamation of the Gospel to the lost,
those who have not accepted salvation by grace through
faith in Jesus Christ.
In 1919, OMS cofounder Charles Cowman wrote in The Oriental Missionary
Standard, “Let us lift up our eyes and look upon the fields and thus give Him
every chance to speak to us in His great loving desire to reach every lost soul
with the knowledge of salvation through the blood atonement of His beloved
Son, in whom He is well pleased.” Later that same year, the questions were
posed, “Do the heathen really need the Gospel? Is their own religion not
good enough for them and more suitable for them?” We may appropriately
avoid the term “heathen” as unduly offensive today, but the scriptural answer
given then remains the same. “And there is salvation in no one else, for there
is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be
saved” (Acts 4:12), “For the Son