Why Mission?
It is when I am with the church planters in Asia that I understand what it means to flee the trappings of this world and the indulgent emphasis on material gain, v7-11.
It is when I am in the church in Swaziland that I begin to notice the beauty of Christlikeness within the honourable life, v11.
It is when I am reading as I did last night an email from a friend whose colleague, a Pentecostal Pastor in Niamey, Niger, who a few days ago has seen his church and house burnt to the ground by Muslims and who has lost everything he owned that I begin to understand what it is to fight the good fight of the faith, v12.
It is when I am sitting with the traumatised raped women within the DRC that I know what it is to hold on to eternity, v12.
This is why Christians like us in the western world should have a hand stretched out to the world beyond.
We are full for being with the empty.
We are nicer people for knowing the honourable.
We are stronger when we are with the weakened.
We have better perspective when with the broken.
This is the benefit for every Christian and every Church to hold a hand out to the world.
This is missions. They are waiting for us, for our prayers, for us to go and for us to give.
Please do something today. Let them know their life is worth something. They need to know it’s not wasted. That before they pass from this life they have impacted us here in our castles.
Missions Paul 