On A Mission

​This coming Sunday I am sharing a message called “We are on a Mission; will you join us?” Jesus wants us to share with others. Acts 1:8, "You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." Now, when Jesus told this to his followers, do you know where they were? They were in Jerusalem. So, here is the point. He is saying, first, I want you to start at home. 

​I want you to start with the people closest to you right there in your own city, your own community. Then he says, “I want you to go to Judea and Samaria,” that is like the county next door, and Samaritans happen to be different culturally and different racially. So, He said, “I want you to go to people nearby, but they are different from you.” Then He says, “I want you to go to the ends of the earth. I want you to go reach everybody else.” 

When I read this, I began to realize He does not say you will be my defense attorney. He does not say you will be my prosecutor. He does not say you will be my salesperson. You do not have to defend God. You do not have to be a salesperson for God. All God wants you to do: He wants you to be a witness. What is a witness? A witness is somebody who just tells what they have seen. I saw this, and then I saw this; and this is what happened. A witness tells them what happened to them. You see, you are an expert on your life. Nobody can be a better witness to your life than you. Nobody can be a better witness of what God has done in your life than you, because you are the authority on your life, not the pastor, not the priest. Not anybody else. So, God says I just want you to tell other people what has happened to you, what has happened in your life. He says I want you to go all over, to the people close to you, to the people who are near, but different, and then to everybody else. 

Being on a mission is the greatest privilege we are ever given: to be in on making history, which is what it is all about.

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