Missions Is...

What is missions? Is it traveling across oceans, continents and jungles to share the Gospel with ignorant tribesmen? Is it living in a grass hut, eating locusts and honey like John the Baptist? Is it withstanding horrible disease and sickness? It may be all of these, but much more!

Is missions living way above your means in a mansion while the people you are trying to reach live in squalor? Is it accumulating tons of support just because you can? Is it draining struggling churches here in the States of much needed funds, while you sit and read novels and watch TV? I think not - it is much more.

Missions, in the minds of some people, are either one of the above scenarios. I contend that missions is much more than giving up the comforts and living in grass huts. Missions is definitely not getting rich at another's expense. Nor is missions laziness.

Missions is partnering together with brethren of like faith and practice to reach the lost with the Gospel. This partnering is striving to reach the world with the Gospel through Faith Promise giving, supporting and sending missionaries to various corners of the globe. It is being sent to reach the lost.

Missions is also partnering with those who seek to start churches in the unreached neighborhoods of our towns and cities here in the United States. There are men who seek to and are currently starting churches all across America who could not do so without the partnership of the brethren.

Missions is partnering together as a local church body to reach our neighborhood, our town, our Jerusalem with the Gospel. If we do not partner together, our community will not be reached! We must strive together for the "furtherance of the Gospel".

Missions is catching the vision of lost souls dying without Christ, and doing our part to reach all that we can. We must partner together with others to reach the world, our nation and our community with the Gospel. This involves praying, giving and going. We must do all we can because our time is short!