Daily Devotional

Matthew 28:19-20  | Read in NIV YouVersion

This Sunday, we will be commissioning our Youth Mission Team as they leave for the Dominican Republic. This week's devotionals will focus on the importance of missions and how we can ALL be missionaries. They are taken from The YouVersion Bible Study entitled "Why Missions Matters," which you can find in its entirety here.

Pause for Reflection:

"The Great Commission Is Not a Suggestion" By Lysa McMillan

Many of us assume that missions and missionary work is for "someone else." That type of work is for the super spiritual, or the experienced traveler with a well-used passport, or the multilingual speaker with a natural talent for picking up new languages. We might even assume it’s for those adventurous people who don’t mind living in the most primitive of conditions. But not so . . .

Though courage is needed, missionary life doesn’t always require an address change. Instead, what it really requires is a change of our perspective, priorities, and passion. It requires an available spirit, one that is open to the leading of the Holy Spirit . . . a spirit that says, “I will go.”

But God is seeking ordinary people with missional mindsets . . . people willing to go!
When we see our lives though the eyes of God’s kingdom mission and gain His heart for the world, we live differently, we give differently, and we love differently.

God is seeking ordinary people with missional mindsets; people willing to go. Now, here’s the thing: “Go” might look different for all of us. For you, it may involve boarding a plane or praying for the work God is doing in a certain country or through a missionary. Maybe you’re compelled to give financially or speak up about the gospel of Jesus Christ with a neighbor, coworker, stranger, or a man, woman, or child from a foreign country. Whatever it may be, each of us are called to be part of God’s redemptive work here and beyond our own borders.

 For this time in history, in this moment, our Lord has chosen us to be His messengers here in our nation and to the ends of the earth! Nothing in life will ever outweigh the importance of advancing God’s kingdom. Our human, earthbound pursuits will always fall short. But if we will arise—if we will take a step of faith and GO—imagine what our great God will do!  

Pray for the upcoming mission trip participants as they continue to prepare their hearts for what's ahead and take care of last minute logistics.

Pray for the churches in Elkhart County to have a heart for missions, both global and local.

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