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Direct Answer The transcript suggests Taylor assumes the Spirit’s work normally produces visible conversion and outward spread, and that the church’s responsibility is to actively take the gospel everywhere as a built-in feature of authentic revival. He tells these stories as if mission is not an “extra,” but a normal overflow of living faith.

Support from Transcript:

• Taylor frames the earliest years as inherently missional: “missions was part of it from the very beginning,” and “revival and missions…tend to go hand in hand.”
• The conversion statistics are presented as evidence of spontaneous gospel advance: “spontaneous flowing of the gospel and conversions and missions.”
• He lists multiple leaders and numbers (e.g., “Hans Hut, 12,000,” St. Gall “around 500,” Baumann “10,378”) to show scale and momentum, not isolated cases.
• Taylor says the “desire to take the gospel everywhere was built into the Anabaptist vision,” implying this is what the Spirit forms in a renewed people.
• He critiques Binder’s “Anabaptist vision” for not including mission burden, calling that omission “a bit of a shame,” which implies missions should be assumed in any true account.