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ABSTRACT

Truth in a personality is the authentic messenger of the message. The carrier of truth is the messenger of the message. The Scripture teaches us that through the Word of God, applied by the Spirit of God, souls are been awakened to a sense of their need as guilty sinners, led to rest in the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ on their behalf; trust Him as their Saviour and confess Him as Lord. But it is not in all cases the Spirit all alone works the magic it must be accomplished by oral presentation of the gospel on the part of the messenger. The person who proclaims the message is called the messenger while the presentation of the message is been described as the preaching of God’s Word or the gospel (Romans 10:14; 2Cor. 10:14; 1Cor.1:17). The two are the same thing; in a very real way the man is his message:” The speaker is his sermon.”.It is the man behind the message that determines its weight for in this, as in everything else, quality is to be preferred to quantity. It was the reason Paul have to warn Timothy to: “Take heed unto thyself and the doctrine; continue in them; for in doing this thou shall both save thyself and them that hear thee. (1Timothy4:16).. You can say it in another way: "What you are; speaks so loud that the world cannot hear what you say" or "Character before career", or better say: "truth through personality". Against this background, this study investigates the missionaries who brought the pure milk of the gospel to Africa. The activities of the missionaries in Africa have been called to question. The study hinge on the assessment of critical literature, This study employed the Library research method and reviewed critical literature on the subject. The objective of the study was for Christian pastors to bear their true identity and never to repeat the same mistake of the missionary. Subsequently, the study finds out that missionaries couldn't transmit the sincere milk of the gospel; so it concludes that pastors should bear true identity to bear fruit. Therefore the study recommends qualified men and women of God be enlisted into God’s work.