Getting Totally Involved in Missions

Mark 16:15

We hear of “missions-minded” churches that have a great mission’s program. Bible Baptist Church, does not HAVE a mission’s program—We ARE a mission’s program! Missions is our sole purpose for existence.

Our example in missions is the Lord Jesus Christ, who came from heaven to planet earth to save us (John 3:16). His mission was to make a way for us to be restored to fellowship with God and thereby go to heaven. As the song by Squire Parsons says, “When I could not go to Him, He came to me!” Being in the form of God, He came in the likeness of men, and became obedient to the cross, even to the death of the cross.

Once Jesus made a way for us to be saved by His death, burial and resurrection, He commissioned His followers to carry out His mission (Mk. 16:15). Jesus said before ascending back to heaven…

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     But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. (Acts 1:8)

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We should take a lesson from Coca-Cola. “Coke” is almost everywhere. How did it get there? It’s motto: THINK GLOBALLY, BUT ACT LOCALLY. What this slogan is to Coke, the Great Commission is to the church.

However, the early church at Jerusalem was slow in taking the gospel outside the city limits. The church at Jerusalem had (1) The Multitude (2) the Might (3) the Message, but that it did not have MISSIONS. Therefore, the Lord allowed persecution to scatter the church to do what He wanted it to do (read Acts 8:1, 4).

The mission of the church is the evangelization of the world. When God loved, He loved the world. When the Father gave His Son, He gave His Son for the world. When the Son died, He died for the world. God’s vision is the world.

If the business of Bible Baptist Church is not God’s business, then our church has no business being in business!