The Church was birthed as a missional movement of God. Looking at the
passage for today, these new believers in Jesus found themselves living as a minority in their neighborhoods, cities, and nations. It was a time when their actions spoke louder than words. They were family, a Christian family that loved and cared for one another – and the Lord added to their number daily. They lived missions!
Fast forward some two thousand years and mission looks more like something we do that breaks from your normal, everyday routine. As a church we go on mission trips. There’s nothing wrong with that, except that all too often we think of missions as something we do instead of something that we are. We are the church! We are the hands and feet of Christ! We are missions!
Is that how you see yourself? Are you a person living missionally every day for Christ or a person who only sets aside a special time to be in mission, if at all? God desires for us to be people moving from occassional missions to continual missional living. Our whole lives, every day, every minute in mission, serving Christ and the world around us. Only then will we see what the early church saw… people being added to our number daily.
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