Missional Living Series Week 5: The Personal Mission of Believers

Here's the link to the last week in our Missional Living Series: Part 5

The Response to Hope: Our Personal Mission

Passages for Study: Acts 17:26‐28; Ephesians 2:10; and
2 Corinthians 5:14‐21

Over the last four weeks we have discussed the Call to Mission we have in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Reason for the Mission we see in our utter depravity because of sin, the great Message of the Mission in the work of Jesus Christ upon the cross, and, last week, that the corporate body of the universal Church is to be the instrument by which Christ is revealed as the hope of the world. This week we move from the idea of mission to the application of mission in our individual lives. As we’ve discussed, in order to understand the mission of God we have to understand the story He is writing and the part we play. We have defined the mission of God as a redemptive mission in which we as His children have been given the ministry and message of reconciliation. Each member of the body of Christ plays his or her part in working out and proclaiming this great mission. We call this “Missional Living.”

Missional Living starts with understanding that God has placed us in this moment in history, His story, for His purpose (His mission). No matter where we are or what we do in life, this is the purpose of each believer whom Christ reconciled – to live out the ministry and share the message that God is redeeming man and creation to a right relationship to Himself through the gospel of His Son, Jesus Christ. Once we realize this, then we can move into fleshing out how our gifts, talents, resources and life can be used for this purpose. This is Missional Living.

Our personal mission is to use our gifts, talents, resources and life to glorify God by being ministers of reconciliation in every venue of our lives. For some this is engaging in the lives of their neighbors, for others it is moving to a “hard” part of town or the world to engage the poor, and yet for all of us it is the call by God to live missionally where we are.

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This Thursday at 7pm we are going to be looking at one of the most famous (or infamous) missionaries in the old testament Jonah. We will be looking at the ramifications of obedience and disobedience as well as what it means to be a witness. Hope to see you there!