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Monday, July 7, 2014
Mission: In Progress
Missions to me is anything where you are challenged regarding the gospel. It can be to the extent of going to a whole different country or even going to a whole different country or even going to school. You don't need to necessarily pay lots of money and help out African-American kids, but you need to try and spread the gospel. In reality, the most broken and hardened hearts are the ones here in the United States. Living in the States, they grow up with all these blessings like shelter, food, and water where it seems not necessary for God. Therefore, I think it is something that has a certain purpose. In this case, it would be spreading more of the gospel and developing our relationship with God more.
This idea of missions is extremely crucial because it is our duty to go and spread the Gospel. If we aren't willing to go and do this mission, who else will? As followers of Jesus, we should want and also see it as an act of obedience because there is nothing greater than doing what God tells us to do. Instead of saying that we need to take a plan and fly somewhere else so that it can be a legitimate mission trip, we should do with what we have. Our campuses, churches, and homes have many people filled with things like cynicism or depression. We must continue to love on people here or someone across the globe and make sure to share the Gospel with them because that is the true commission.
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How do we determine our callings?
ReplyDeleteI think it comes from a lot of prayer and your own discernment. Sometimes, God gives us these callings, but it's our own responsibility to go and find what the answer actually is.
DeleteI find it interesting that you wrote that God sometimes gives us our calling. Because definitely in the Christian culture, we expect that there is a calling for everyone. However this notion that we all receive callings, or that God has a purpose and will for everyone (which one could argue is calling) often forces us to get lazy. We expect for our callings to one day just hit us in the face with a BOOM and that all of a sudden, what we're supposed to do for the rest of our lives will be written down and explained to us. But you're right, God gives us these callings, but calling is also something we must seek out and discover ourselves. I'm curious though, what does it look like for you (specifically) to discover your calling?
DeleteWhere do you find yourself the most "challenged" and would you say that challenge could relate to being a "mission"?
ReplyDeleteI find myself the most challenged when I'm with most of my friends. They aren't really focused on putting God in the center, so that kind of makes it so that I adapt to them. I see it as another mission field because that can be another way to share the Gospel.
DeleteWhat does it look like to spread the gospel in a nonverbal form?
ReplyDeleteTo be really honest, it would be love. Just like the first chapter of Love Does, Bob was moved from the fact that love didn't just say, but that it did. I noted that it was something you had to sacrifice and be present in. The Gospel is shown and should continue to be shown through our actions.
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