Thoughts on Mission
I'm trying to work through a lot of meditating I've done on God's intentional mission to the world and how it involves us. The following kind of sums up where I'm at...chime in and help a brother out.
God has a mission—a mission to reclaim and recreate a fallen world distorted and shattered by sin. His plan began to unfold through a people selected to live out his mission. Working within the fallen system they sold out to idols and squandered their opportunity to carry out the mission of Jehovah. Using the hope of a faithful remnant, God occupied flesh and pitched his tent on earth in the person of Jesus. Jesus then lived the mission Israel had aborted.
This mission included ways foreign to thinking associated with our fallen world. Instead of forcing people to accept the ways of Jehovah, the mission, which was Jesus, included a path of servitude and suffering (Read Isaiah 40-55). His death defined the mission he lived. This voluntary death put on display for the world the love of God. It paved the way for the restoration of relationships that had crumbled due to the sins of humanity.
Jesus has since left earth. But the mission still plods on. It is up to those who accept the invitation to participate in God’s mission to continue to carry it out—to be the mission; to be Jesus to a world still marred by and enslaved to sin. The church, the body of Christ, must now put on display the love of God as the mission of God. The elements of the mission have not changed either. Those who accept the invitation to partner with God in his mission must also embrace a life of servitude and suffering—they must die to live the mission.
God has a mission—a mission to reclaim and recreate a fallen world distorted and shattered by sin. His plan began to unfold through a people selected to live out his mission. Working within the fallen system they sold out to idols and squandered their opportunity to carry out the mission of Jehovah. Using the hope of a faithful remnant, God occupied flesh and pitched his tent on earth in the person of Jesus. Jesus then lived the mission Israel had aborted.
This mission included ways foreign to thinking associated with our fallen world. Instead of forcing people to accept the ways of Jehovah, the mission, which was Jesus, included a path of servitude and suffering (Read Isaiah 40-55). His death defined the mission he lived. This voluntary death put on display for the world the love of God. It paved the way for the restoration of relationships that had crumbled due to the sins of humanity.
Jesus has since left earth. But the mission still plods on. It is up to those who accept the invitation to participate in God’s mission to continue to carry it out—to be the mission; to be Jesus to a world still marred by and enslaved to sin. The church, the body of Christ, must now put on display the love of God as the mission of God. The elements of the mission have not changed either. Those who accept the invitation to partner with God in his mission must also embrace a life of servitude and suffering—they must die to live the mission.
posted by Josh Linton at
10:42 AM
1 Comments:
I think what you have written so far has some really good points. Think about this. Maybe it will help you out. Or, maybe it will help me out. Either way here goes. Psalm 8, which describes God's plan for us has a tremendous amount of information that I feel we could use to help us put into perspective what role we are to play in His plan or mission. Especially vs 2. I feel that it is us that He will use to defeat His enemies and the avenger. Saving us and defeating satan is part of that mission. Well, I hope that this helps. God bless you brother.
guy with a mustang in GR
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