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March 02, 2016
March Missions
As you all know, next week begins a month focused heavily on missions. With the On Mission Connection events, Revival, the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions, and Resurrection Day (Easter) all just around the corner, it is worth considering our place in the work of missions.
Missions is a broad term that incorporates everything from sharing the gospel with a neighbor to going to an unreached people group somewhere across the globe. The mission of the church (and each member who constitutes the church) was handed down to us from the Lord Himself. We didn't think up the idea of engaging others with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus commissioned all of us to, "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" (Matthew 28:19–20). It is because of Christ and for Christ that we seek to fulfill what has become to be known as the Great Commission.
We must remember, however, that missions is not the goal! It is the means. Ultimately the goal is the glory of God which includes the redemption of the lost in order to create a new nation from among every nation under heaven. A nation of the redeemed passionately pursuing the honor and glory of the Creator.
We have all been commissioned to play a part! Our roles may not look the same, but we must nevertheless seek to determine how we will participate whether we are faithfully sharing the gospel with our friends and neighbors in the community, seeking to serve a people in some distant place, investing in those who do, etc.
At the very least we can take advantage of the opportunities afforded us through our community of faith. I hope that you will enter the month of March with an expectant heart! Be present with us as we consider missions through the On Mission Connection events on Saturday, March 5. Make every effort to join us Sunday morning March 6th and see how God might use our guest missionaries to encourage you. Determine to set aside some time to join us nightly at 7:00 for our Revival services with Terry Stockman March 6–10. Consider how you might invest in missions by giving to the Annie Armstrong offering for missions. Our goal is $2000 but I believe we can far exceed that goal.
Finally, be mindful of what makes all of this possible as we look to celebrating the resurrection of our Lord on March 27. The resurrection makes all of this both possible and worthy! We are able to proclaim new life in Christ because of His victory over death, sin, and the grave. He is worthy of our efforts because His resurrection testifies to His Lordship over all creation and is deserving of our worship. Because He Lives we can face tomorrow . . .Life is worth the living just because He Lives!