Mission is ~ We need

Mission is ~ We need

In my last piece I said that Mission was God’s concern, or rather His Business. I will try to focus here on the human response to build our reply to God’s leading.  This is how the missionary call and the Bible call that challenges us to “gossip the Gospel” to our friends and coworkers.

There are personal/spiritual qualities in or lives that either proves the “Good News” or that sends up rockets that say “no way I don’t want this in my life.”  It is that personal quality or that misplaced spiritual belief that has the possibility of making others not want to commit to the Master.

In each of us there may be personal issues that make loving others enough to invite then to the Jesus Party.  Unfortunately often, we are incapable of loving people with the love of the Lord, it requires the augmenting of Master love by Jesus.

The first consideration as we look at involvement in outreach of any kind is to remember that we are to act as the Master set out in the Gospels primarily and the following letters that set out how we should respond in times of stress as we speak to people who are separated from the Church.

Jesus left a “commandment” for us that we should love one another as He had loved us.  There is anecdotal evidence that the early churches did exactly do with the comments being made of “look at those Christians see how they love each other.” This is just one personal quality that makes a difference in the way that people experience people of God.

There are other personal qualities that are addressed our relations with others. One of these was “Let your yes and your no be no” from the Master. It seems to me that this relates to personal integrity when dealing with others, not just with our Church community but also with those outside that family: there is no room for yes but, or yes maybe, when we say yes we should do our utmost to get that outcome.

There are a couple of attitudes, or qualities that come out through the Gospels, the first of these is compassion which the Master had in bags full. The second of these qualities that is to be encouraged is a passion for the lost. This passion is one of the best ways to introduce a stranger to the Lord. If they see something different in you or me they will want to get involved in where we are showing the way.

All this above is all well and good but there is a prior activity which empowers their activation. That is what Jesus told His followers when He told them to “pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers.” Regardless of our own personal desires when we pray that prayer regularly then Father will motivate people to step into mission and evangelism

Let God arise and through us reach out to those who are away from His Kingdom.