May 14, 2008...11:07 am
.what is the mission?.
There has been much written about the mission of God. The question is what are we as Christians to do? Some say that we are to make the world a better place. That is correct but not the whole truth. Is it converts? Well that is true but not the whole truth.
So what is the mission of God… well to bring glory to God. That is what we are to do in our lives and we are also to bring more worshipers to God. If we look at what has been labeled the great commission we are make disciples. So while we are to make the world better, we are to make disciples of Jesus.
Now how are we to do this? By being Jesus incarnate. You see the emergent church has taken this idea of incarnational ministry and twisted it to mean that we are nice to people yet never are Jesus to them. They forget the message of Jesus.
I am part of a community that believes this and therefore lives it out. We believe that we are to be Jesus incarnate in two ways. We are to be the hands and feet of Jesus, by being in people’s lives and meeting their needs. Also we are to be Jesus incarnate by being his voice and proclaiming the message of Jesus.
If we do not have both of these we are left with a hollow view of the mission of God, we are not being followers of Jesus unless we are his hands and feet and his voice. The mission of God is so much greater than making the world better and it is so much greater than making converts. It is about bringing more glory to God and we do that by making more disciples of Him.
So what is the mission of God to you?
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