Living on Mission

Last Sunday, our church was blessed with a visit by the traveling ministry of the Watoto Children’s choir from Uganda for a concert and Christian evangelical message. Pastor Kyle observed that we, American churches, need to get our minds around Ugandan missionaries being sent to the United States to spread the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ. America used to be a booming center for Christianity, but it is increasingly becoming less and less the case, while Uganda is passionate about fulfilling the “great commission” and reaching the world for the Lord and for the salvation of lost sinners. Every church needs to reach their world for Jesus, sharing the gospel in our everyday world.

Just because society, as a whole, may be experiencing less openness towards the things of God, does not mean that the Holy Spirit cannot perform a fresh move here and now in our midst. In all of time and history, God is looking for someone to say, “Here I am.  I will go and set out to do what you want me to do in my life”, and God will use them to reach this society for the Lord Jesus Christ.

Matthew 28:18-20 say that Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Pastor Kyle explains that there is not a button that you can push or a formula that you can plug in where everyone can come to a “saving knowledge” of Jesus Christ. God asks us every day to look into the holy Word of Scripture in the living Bible and ask ourselves if there is something new for us that day and in that particular season of our life. You can know something in Scripture and through the Holy Spirit learn something new about it to be more effective in this season of your life.

The “Great Commission” by the Lord Jesus is the great suggestion and living out this commandment of God is an “all consuming” process that never ends. Everywhere we go, we bring Jesus with us in our daily lives. That is the mission. We are to model and exemplify the Lord, while inviting people into the kingdom of God. The word “kingdom” is a contraction of the two words “king’s domain” – the complete area of the king’s dominion, reign and rule. Almighty God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, has dominion over ever thing and the Lord’s domain will never be destroyed.  

Jesus (the Son of God) was sent by Father God to live a sinless life and die on the Cross for the sins of the world. This fallen world is not the kingdom. The kingdom of Heaven is the kingdom that never falls. Living the mission, we are blessed to invite people, who do not know the Savior of the world and Lord of Lords, in. Spread the gospel of Jesus Christ.

In Christ, Brian