Breaking
the Missional Code by Ed Stetzer and David Putman is a call for all churches in the United States to be missionaries in their communities
as foreign missionaries would on the field. The authors explain that the message
of Jesus Christ is still foreign to many who stand in the shadows
of American steeples. Our approach to outreach and discipleship must change if more lives in our own backyards are to be reconciled to the Father in Heaven.
"Books like this give me
hope for the future church."
- Dan Kimball, author of The Emerging Church
We don't understand Missions because we don't truly understand the Great Commission. Throughout your day, everyday, share the good news of Jesus with your words, with your hands, with your life. Do it here locally and around the world. What's so hard about that? Why don't we do it?
Here's my take on that question. We are very content living the way we live and we don't anyone to tell us to live any differently. We're very happy with our stuff. We like our stuff and we don't want anyone to tell us we can't have something. That's just not the American way, is it?
Well it's time we live differently. It's time our lives matter for eternity. I'm not saying to quit your job and to go overseas. Keep your job... Share your life... Care that others hear and see the Good News of Jesus Christ in you.
As I was spending some time in the Word today God put my in 1 John 3. I'd like to share it with you. "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure."
Isn't it great to know that we can have hope and be made pure. God bless you today as you strive to live for Jesus and as others look at your life and see Him through you.
As the Bilby family prepares to leave for the summer we just wanted to say thank you all for your prayers and support. We are in the ministry of activating churches and individuals to be actively involved in world evangelism and discipleship. This summer will be full of events that will touch many Christ-followers. Starting with a trip to Virginia to work on a prayer mobilization project then to Africa to meet with church leaders to investigate what effective stateside partnership looks like. Many times the American church gets in the way of true discipleship in different cultures. We want to transplant our ineffective model over to other cultures so we can feel like we are doing missions. There is room for improvement in our current missions model. Who better to ask what it should look like other than Nationals.
Breaking
the Missional Code by Ed Stetzer and David Putman is a call for all churches in the United States to be missionaries in their communities
as foreign missionaries would on the field. The authors explain that the message
of Jesus Christ is still foreign to many who stand in the shadows
of American steeples. Our approach to outreach and discipleship must change if more lives in our own backyards are to be reconciled to the Father in Heaven.