The Purpose Driven Life,Chapter Thirty Six
Made For A Mission
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God is at work in the world, and He wants you to join Him. This assignment is called your mission. God wants you to have both a ministry in the Body of Christ and a mission in the world. Your ministry is your service to believers, and your mission is your service to unbelievers. Fulfilling your mission in the world is God's fifth purpose for your life.
Your life mission is both shared and specific. One part of it is a responsibility you share with every other Christian. The other part is an assignment that is unique to you.
The mission Jesus had while on earth is now our mission because we are the Body of Christ. What He did in His physical boyd, we are to continue as His spiritual body, the church. What is that mission? Introducing people to God! God wants to redeem human beings from Satan and reconcile them to Himself so we can fulfill the five purposes He created us for: to love him, to be a part of His family, to become like Him, to serve Him, and to tell others about Him. Once we are His, God uses us to reach others. He saves us and then sends us out. We are the messengers of God's love and purposes to the world.
Fulfilling your life mission on earth is an essential part of living for God's glory. The Bible gives several reasons why your mission is so important.
Your mission is a continuation of Jesus' mission on earth. As His followers, we are to continue what Jesus started. Jesus calls us not only to come to him, but to go for him. Your mission is so significant that Jesus repeated it five times, in five different ways, in five different books of the Bible.
You may have been unaware that God holds you responsible for the unbelievers who live around you. You are the only Christian some people will ever know, and your mission is to share Jesus with them.
Your mission is a wonderful privilege. Although it is a big responsibility, it is also an incredible honor to be used by God. Your mission involves two great privileges: working with God and representing Him.
Jesus has secured our salvation, put us in his family, given us his Spirit, and then made us his agents in the world.
Telling others how they can have eternal life is the greatest thing you can do for them. We have the greatest news in the world, and sharing it is the greatest kindness you can show to anyone.
One problem long-term Christians have is that they forget how hopeless it felt to be without Christ. We must remember that no matter how contented or successful people appear to be, without Christ they are hopelessly lost and headed for eternal separation from God. The Bible says Jesus is the only One who can save people. Everybody needs Jesus.
Your mission has eternal significance. It will impact the eternal destiny of other people, so it's more important than any job, achievement, or goal you will reach during your life on earth. The consequences of your mission will last forever; the consequences of your job will not.
Get started on your mission of reaching out to others now! We will have all of eternity to celebrate with those we have brought to Jesus, but we only have our lifetime in which to reach them. God wants you to share the Good News where you are. As a student, mother, preschool teacher, salesman, or manager or whatever you do, you should continually look for people God places in your path with whom you can share the gospel.
Your mission gives your life meaning. The truth is, only the kingdom of God is going to last. Everything else will eventually vanish. That is why we must live purpose driven lives--lives committed to worship, fellowship, spiritual growth, ministry and fulfilling our mission on earth. The results of these activities will last--forever!
If you fail to fulfill your God-given mission on earth, you will have wasted the life God gave you. There are people on this planet whom only you will be able to reach, because of where you live and what God has made you to be. If just one person will be in heaven because of you, your life will have made a difference for eternity.
God's timetable for history's conclusion is connected to the completion of our commission. Today there's a growing interest in the second coming of Christ and the end of the world. When will it happen? Just before Jesus ascended to heaven the disciples asked him this same question, and his response was quite revealing. He said "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by His own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
What we know for sure is this: Jesus will not return until everyone God wants to hear the Good News has heard it. If you want Jesus to come back sooner, focus on fulfilling your mission, not figuring out prophecy. It is easy to get distracted and sidetracked from your mission because Satan would rather have you do anything besides sharing your faith. He will let you do all kinds of good things as long as you don't take anyone to heaven with you. But the moment you become serious about your mission, expect the Devil to throw all kinds of diversions at you.
To fulfill your mission will require that you abandon your agenda and accept God's agenda for your life. You can't just "tack it on" to all the other things you'd like to do with your life. You yield your rights, expectations, dreams, plans and ambitions to Him. You hand God a blank sheet with your name signed at the bottom and tell Him to fill in the details.
If you will commit to fulfilling your mission in life no matter what it costs, you will experience the blessing of God in ways that few people ever experience. There is almost nothing God won't do for the man or woman who is committed to serving the kingdom of God.
If you want to be used by God, you must care about what God cares about; what He cares about most is the redemption of the people He made. He wants His lost children found! Nothing matters more to God; the cross proves that. Always be on the lookout to reach "one more for Jesus" so that when you stand before God one day, you can say "Mission accomplished!"
Your life mission is both shared and specific. One part of it is a responsibility you share with every other Christian. The other part is an assignment that is unique to you.
The mission Jesus had while on earth is now our mission because we are the Body of Christ. What He did in His physical boyd, we are to continue as His spiritual body, the church. What is that mission? Introducing people to God! God wants to redeem human beings from Satan and reconcile them to Himself so we can fulfill the five purposes He created us for: to love him, to be a part of His family, to become like Him, to serve Him, and to tell others about Him. Once we are His, God uses us to reach others. He saves us and then sends us out. We are the messengers of God's love and purposes to the world.
Fulfilling your life mission on earth is an essential part of living for God's glory. The Bible gives several reasons why your mission is so important.
Your mission is a continuation of Jesus' mission on earth. As His followers, we are to continue what Jesus started. Jesus calls us not only to come to him, but to go for him. Your mission is so significant that Jesus repeated it five times, in five different ways, in five different books of the Bible.
You may have been unaware that God holds you responsible for the unbelievers who live around you. You are the only Christian some people will ever know, and your mission is to share Jesus with them.
Your mission is a wonderful privilege. Although it is a big responsibility, it is also an incredible honor to be used by God. Your mission involves two great privileges: working with God and representing Him.
Jesus has secured our salvation, put us in his family, given us his Spirit, and then made us his agents in the world.
Telling others how they can have eternal life is the greatest thing you can do for them. We have the greatest news in the world, and sharing it is the greatest kindness you can show to anyone.
One problem long-term Christians have is that they forget how hopeless it felt to be without Christ. We must remember that no matter how contented or successful people appear to be, without Christ they are hopelessly lost and headed for eternal separation from God. The Bible says Jesus is the only One who can save people. Everybody needs Jesus.
Your mission has eternal significance. It will impact the eternal destiny of other people, so it's more important than any job, achievement, or goal you will reach during your life on earth. The consequences of your mission will last forever; the consequences of your job will not.
Get started on your mission of reaching out to others now! We will have all of eternity to celebrate with those we have brought to Jesus, but we only have our lifetime in which to reach them. God wants you to share the Good News where you are. As a student, mother, preschool teacher, salesman, or manager or whatever you do, you should continually look for people God places in your path with whom you can share the gospel.
Your mission gives your life meaning. The truth is, only the kingdom of God is going to last. Everything else will eventually vanish. That is why we must live purpose driven lives--lives committed to worship, fellowship, spiritual growth, ministry and fulfilling our mission on earth. The results of these activities will last--forever!
If you fail to fulfill your God-given mission on earth, you will have wasted the life God gave you. There are people on this planet whom only you will be able to reach, because of where you live and what God has made you to be. If just one person will be in heaven because of you, your life will have made a difference for eternity.
God's timetable for history's conclusion is connected to the completion of our commission. Today there's a growing interest in the second coming of Christ and the end of the world. When will it happen? Just before Jesus ascended to heaven the disciples asked him this same question, and his response was quite revealing. He said "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by His own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
What we know for sure is this: Jesus will not return until everyone God wants to hear the Good News has heard it. If you want Jesus to come back sooner, focus on fulfilling your mission, not figuring out prophecy. It is easy to get distracted and sidetracked from your mission because Satan would rather have you do anything besides sharing your faith. He will let you do all kinds of good things as long as you don't take anyone to heaven with you. But the moment you become serious about your mission, expect the Devil to throw all kinds of diversions at you.
To fulfill your mission will require that you abandon your agenda and accept God's agenda for your life. You can't just "tack it on" to all the other things you'd like to do with your life. You yield your rights, expectations, dreams, plans and ambitions to Him. You hand God a blank sheet with your name signed at the bottom and tell Him to fill in the details.
If you will commit to fulfilling your mission in life no matter what it costs, you will experience the blessing of God in ways that few people ever experience. There is almost nothing God won't do for the man or woman who is committed to serving the kingdom of God.
If you want to be used by God, you must care about what God cares about; what He cares about most is the redemption of the people He made. He wants His lost children found! Nothing matters more to God; the cross proves that. Always be on the lookout to reach "one more for Jesus" so that when you stand before God one day, you can say "Mission accomplished!"