Welcome to Day 16 as
you
Take the
Missional Challenge!
Take the Missional Challenge is a 31 Day experience designed to help align believers with Jesus' mission. Each day's post includes missional concepts and activities. For more information - click here.
Every heart with
Christ, a missionary;
every heart
without Christ, a mission field.
Dick Hillis, Missionary to Asia, Founder of
OC International
Those are powerful words. Every Christian is a missionary - a sent one - sent by Jesus with the message of the cross together in community with other Christians to engage those in culture wherever they live.
No one can say: 'Since I'm not called to be a missionary, I do not have to evangelize my friends and neighbors.' There is no difference, in spiritual terms, between a missionary witnessing in his home town and a missionary witnessing in Katmandu, Nepal. We are all called to go-even if it is only to the next room, or the next block. (Thomas Hale, On Being a Missionary)
Chapter 4 in Six-Word Lessons to Discover Missional Living focuses on ways to Think and Act Like a Missionary in your own zip code. Missional activities start wherever you are. You don't have to travel overseas to be a missionary. You can be a missionary where you live, where you work, and where you play.
Lesson 30: Every believer is sent on mission.
Every believer is sent somewhere - either to their local
culture or a distant culture.
DAY 16 ACTION
STEP:
Adopt Missional Thinking and Behaviors
Adopt Missional Thinking and Behaviors
If you are going to be live as a missionary in your own zip code, identifying what missionaries "do" is a critical starting point. Simply understood, missional behaviors are missionary behaviors.
1. Consider these missionary (missional) behaviors -
- Missionaries exegete their culture.
- Missionaries contextualize the gospel.
- Missionaries plant the gospel in the culture.
- Missionaries multiply disciples.
- Missionaries start new churches.
- Missionaries transform communities.
- Missionaries equip indigenous leaders.
- Missionaries encourage new believers.
- Missionaries get out of the way.
- Missionaries keep doing it again and again.
"As the Father has sent Me, I am sending you."
- Jesus
(John 20:21)
Day 16 Missional Challenge: Missional
behaviors are missionary behaviors. Start thinking and
acting like a missionary everywhere you go.
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