The Great Commission Is A Mission For All Seasons

If all we do is scroll through FB posts, listen to “Woe is the Church During Covid” podcasts, fail to filter the propaganda our favorite internet news brands want to feeds us, and then buy into all the doomsday predictions swirling around—you just might think that all the church is focused on and obsessing over today is the “to mask” or “not to mask” issue as well as how to keep the government from taking our rights, our guns, our votes, our voice, and of course our money.  It’d be a pretty grim picture indeed.  It’d also be the wrong picture.  

You see, the truth of the matter is that today, even during Covid and the aftermath of a contentious election, far more Bible believing and preaching churches are focused on the mission of the Great Commission than are not.  Oh, I don’t doubt there are a great many churches focusing on the wrong things but that’s because they are not necessarily Bible reading, Bible preaching, and Bible believing churches.  I say this because those kinds of churches who still place a high priority on the Word of God understand that the Great Commission is a mission for all seasons—regardless of who is the president, which political party has control, what the economic forecast looks like, how well our church and personal budgets are faring, and is Covid ever going to go away.

These kinds of Great Commission mindset and focused churches also understand that the fear of future potential loss is not an excuse to slow down, rest, or bail on the mission.  As Peter, our 14 year old, shared with me a couple days ago when we were out walking and talking about his future missional goals—If anything our current situation should cause us to move forward in Great Commission endeavors with much greater urgency—willing to take far more substantial risks than ever before as we see gospel opportunities diminishing.  

Wow, I couldn’t agree more!  And as I reminded Peter, for every believer who rises up, leaves family and familiarity to go to a hard place to live among gospel-hardened people for the purpose of fulfilling the Great Commission, there is a small army of praying, sacrificing, giving, and biblically hopeful believers and their churches who instead of bemoaning their troubles and lack of ability just keep trusting God for more strength, more power in prayer, more funds to give, more gospel influence, and more gospel-investing opportunities.  We think that this aptly describes you all who have our back at Regions In Need as we work to advance gospel influence among unreached people groups by providing training, resources, encouragement, and pastoral care to indigenous churches, pastors, and church planters in select areas of Cameroon, Myanmar, Nepal, and East Asia.  Thank you for still believing the Great Commission is a mission worth sacrificing for, praying about, and giving to even in the midst of serious difficulties and setbacks at home.  

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