How many times has someone told you, "you are in a mission field, wherever you are." True. God puts us in specific places with a purpose in mind, and we don't have to travel to the ends of the Earth to find a mission field. So... we're missionaries. Now tell me: why do we not act as such? On a daily basis, the ones we call missionaries, those who have given up a comfortable home life in the country of their birth, act differently than we do. They struggle. They serve. They share. They step out of their comfort zones. Yes, they eat, sleep, and laugh the same as we do, but they have a purpose, an intention of being a missionary.
When you're not a labeled missionary, different things occupy your life. You go to school, you work your job, you raise your kids, you socialize with friends. But all of these are part of the labeled missionary's life, too. So it's not that we're being missionaries in a part of the world that's closer to home, it's just that we're being in a different part of the world; I think we're missing something. When was the last time you picked up a stranger who was walking down the road, no matter how little room you had in your car? When was the last time you intentionally served everyone around you, every day? When was the last time you... shared your faith, even if through actions more than words?
We shouldn't use "we're in a mission field" as an excuse to continue with our relatively comfortable, suburban lives. We should be the missionaries we are called to be.
When you're not a labeled missionary, different things occupy your life. You go to school, you work your job, you raise your kids, you socialize with friends. But all of these are part of the labeled missionary's life, too. So it's not that we're being missionaries in a part of the world that's closer to home, it's just that we're being in a different part of the world; I think we're missing something. When was the last time you picked up a stranger who was walking down the road, no matter how little room you had in your car? When was the last time you intentionally served everyone around you, every day? When was the last time you... shared your faith, even if through actions more than words?We shouldn't use "we're in a mission field" as an excuse to continue with our relatively comfortable, suburban lives. We should be the missionaries we are called to be.
"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you...you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."
Matthew 28:19-20, Acts 1:8
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