The world is full of missionaries.
John 16
The time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God, v2.
According to a recent report at least one in four of the estimated 2,000 foreigners fighting for ISIS in Syria and Iraq is British – and half of those are already back in the UK.
That means there are now almost three times as many British Muslims fighting for Islamic State than there are serving in the UK military, an MP has claimed. Another report reveals how girls as young as 14 or 15 are travelling mainly to Syria to marry jihadis, bear their children and join communities of fighters, with a small number taking up arms. Many are recruited via social media.
We are living in a time where young people are becoming missionaries in unprecedented ways. In service to God they are offering their lives, often sacrificing them for the cause of wickedness.
How someone can commit horrible crimes thinking they are serving God is beyond us. Their God is not God.
However we do not despair. We rejoice that this is simply a copy of what our God is doing. For we are also seeing droves of young people sign up to lay their life down not to kill but to serve, to love and pour mercy on those who need it the most in our world.
For Elim, over the next few years we are going to see hundreds of young people sign up for the Missionary Apprenticeship Programme. They will think they are in service to God and they will be. Whatever Satan is doing in the world it is just a faulty copy of what God is truly doing. Watch this space!
Missions Paul 