We have been on a journey looking at missionary work, the price, that we are to be joyous in the price, and what a martyr is. We have looked at what a missionary is. Today we are to look at how we are to be a missionary in our continued discussion on this subject if Missionary/Missions. I have given glimpses of how we are to missionaries but today I will go deeper. To start off with anyone can be a missionary if they have the heart for it and everyone can have a missionary mindset. The how is the same as what a missionary is and that is found in Matthew. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to follow all that I commanded you; and behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20. We are to go out into all nations and make disciples of them, teaching them all that Jesus Commanded.
But how are we to do that same thing I know that is the answer. The answer is not that you get on a plane and go to Africa unless that is where you are being called. you may be called to go and to preach somewhere but not all our called to do that. I believe the true answer is this that we are to have a mission mindset and that we go out to all parts of our community and proclaim the good news.
yes, we are all to have that mindset, that is what we are called to do proclaim the good news to whoever will listen, and I have said I do this no matter the cost. “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. John 15:18. I have talked about the cost of this work, and you will be hated. With that the being said we are still called to do this kind of work.
The church is not four walls; it is the people who are in the church that make up the church and the people of that church have a commandment from Jesus that says, we are to proclaim the good news to all nations. when we come to Christ it will not all be a bed of roses and the road will be hard road to travel on at times. God is with is. I mention this to say that when God gives us a commandment it may not all be a bed roses and may not be easy to do. But we make up the church and are commanded to do this kind of work. “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. John 14:15. if were our Jesus followers and we love Jesus we are to keep his commandments.
In my spirit I feel that this commandment is one that can be as easy as inviting a neighbor to church or to coffee for discussion of the good news. yes, that is considered missionary work. it can also be as hard as proclaiming Jesus and getting an ear cut off or beaten. I will leave it there for today to let that sink in that missionary work is just that, two different spectrums.
Tomorrow I will continue this discussion on how we are to be missionaries and have a missionary mindset and ways we can be effect missionaries.
All bible verses taken from the NASB.
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