Where’s your mission field?
This last month and a half has been SOOO busy–due in part to preparations for the worship team’s next project. On Sunday, we’re heading to New Orleans for a week-long mission trip. It has been 4 years since Hurricane Katrina hit the city, and there is still so much rebuilding to be done. So we’re off to build some homes. I am so excited by what God has in store for us next week. And although we’ll be focused in large part on nails, drywall, paint and lumber, the real mission is spreading the Gospel of Christ. It always is, no matter where we are. I think that can be a bit of a disconnect for some, myself included. Traveling to Sudan, Honduras, India, and other countries, where poverty is high and many still have not heard the Gospel, it’s easy to see that these places are “the mission field”.
But what about the 98% of the year when you’re not overseas? What about all of the time when you’re not on an organized mission trip somewhere? There is a sign you see on your way out of the parking lot at Brook Hills, and it says that you are now entering the great commission. All you’ve done is drive out of the parking lot onto the street, but you’re already out in the mission field and you haven’t even left the neighborhood. It doesn’t matter whether you are at home, at work, in the grocery store, in South Africa or wherever. Your mission field is just as important locally as it is globally. So spending time in the Word and in prayer becomes even more important, so that you will be prepared to serve God in all that you do everyday, wherever you are, both here and over there.
Jesus tells his disciples in Matthew 28:19-20,”Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” You and I cannot change hearts, we cannot save people, but we are disciples of Christ, and God uses us to share His Word and the truth about His Son, so that He can be glorified and He then softens even the hardest of hearts. Our pastor has put it this way: show the Word, share the Word, teach the Word, and serve the World. My prayer is that God will turn me outward so that through what I say, what I do, wherever I go, others will see Christ first, and that I will be unafraid to share and talk about what an awesome God we have and how amazing His grace is. It is so easy for us to forget amidst all the busyness of life, but maybe we should all stop and check in every once in a while and ask ourselves where our mission field is…because it’s wherever you are.
May the Lord help us remember that we are always on mission.
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