Your Mission
Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone. Mark 16:15 NLT
Mission's trips are cool, but a life lived on mission is our call!
God’s mission which you should definitely except, is a mission that comes with every redemptive weapon you could ever need.
You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere, in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. Acts 1:8 NLT
Any church that isn’t seriously involved in helping fulfill the great commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist. - Oswald J. Smith
Go be with and like Jesus!
I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing. John 15:5 NLT
If we’re going to be like Jesus, we should consider what Jesus was like?
Shine in the house, through the house, and outside the house. - - Jake’s slide again here over a story…
While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him. Luke 5:12-13 ESV
The first consideration for a life lived on mission is to mirror the Messiah who came on mission for us!
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. John 1:6-8 ESV
We have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy; giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1:9-14 ESV
Our lives are meant to be lived on the Messiah’s mission.
The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free, and that the time of the LORD’s favor has come.” Luke 4:18-19 ESV
We can see Jesus, through us, change our world, one intentional, Spirit-empowered interaction, conversation, and relationship at a time.
David’s video prolly goes here. - - And then Jake’s slide one more time when I’m talking about CJ
They had first given themselves unreservedly to God and then by the will of God to others. 2 Corinthians 8:5
If you miss on seeing and embracing God’s mission, you’ll miss on seeing and experiencing God’s miracles!
Sing to the LORD, all the earth! Tell of his salvation from day to day. Declare his glory among the nations,
his marvelous works among all the peoples! For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised.
1 Chronicles 16:23-25 ESV
The mark of a great church is not it’s seating capacity but it’s sending capacity. Mark Stachura