Missions - Whose responsibility

Many Christians have the wrong idea about Missions. Some think their role is to win their own or for some, "preparing the church for the soon coming of Christ". 

While this may be true, that is not the whole scope of the gospel. The cultural mandate in Genesis 1:28 instructs us to "“Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it." This command was given to all mandkind.

The Great Commission in Matthew 28:19-20 - "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations... The imperative is very clear. 

It's because some people went out of their countries that we have the gospel in ours.

Missions is not the responsibility of the pastor or a selected few. It's every Christians responsibility. If the nail prints on the hands and feet of our Lord Jesus does not compel us to see beyond our perimeters, nothing else will. 

Praise God we who have received Christ have inherited all the blessings that came as a result of the passion of Christ. It was the print of the nails and the gruesome suffering and death that bought us our salvation.

The question we need to ask is, "Has the nail prints caused "any marks" on our hands and feet because of our involvement in missions. " Did it ever stir our hearts and minds to see the lost? Did it cause you to go or to give sacrificially for missions? If not you have not understood the heart of God. You have not heard His heartbeat. You do not know Him.

The only way one gets the heart for missions is to see God as Isaiah saw in Isaiah 6.

What has the Great Commission caused us?

"for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus" - Apostle Paul

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