What Is Church on a Exploration?
Missional living is definitely a trendy title that is anywhere you look these days. the concept that we are obligated to compartmentalize places of worship, missional, has for eternity been a little odd to me. please, shouldnt all churches be missional in their very nature? Shouldnt a church, at its very base, shoot to connect their culture and city with the good news as a missionary would in a overseas country? Isnt that what the churches is challenged to do in the great commission in Matthew 28:19? Our own hometown deserves this style of church. Churches in Austin is slowly going to what our God instructed in Holy Word.
Christ gives the direction in Acts 1:8 saying, “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts 1:8 justifies this concept as, right before Jesus Christ goes up to Heaven, He points the disciples on a journey that would initiate right in their personal community. He begins with their area of Jerusalem, and then enlarges the call to the outer parts of the globe.
As Christians, we are not moved to social clubs, but to be missional persons who are aggressively going out and going to areas right where they are with the message of Jesus. We have gazed at this throughout history: God motivated Abraham on a mission to go out of his home and his people and go to the city that God would show him (Gen. 12:1), God moved Moses on a exploration to rescue an enslaved people and lead them to joy (Exodus 3:8-10), God sends Jesus on a mission to world to reconcile all things to Himself through the death of Jesus (Colossians 1:20). And now God is sending us on a journey to engage neighborhoods, cities, peoples, and even nations with the message of Jesus (Matt. 28:19 Mark 6:7 Luke 10:1 John 20:21 Acts 1:8). If we reject this call and continue to see the churches like a private country club ” encouraging that people resolve their performance, pay their fees, and come to our building God will continue His exploration without us.
