Are you a missionary?
Chances are your not, but are you called?
I believe the answer is YES.
We have all been called to share the gospel; but have we answered that call?
Have we been obedient to His charge?
While this video is a luscious attractive piece designed to attract and encourage you to do missions.
I liked it and honestly made me want to do missions.
But wait I am a missionary and so are you.
No matter where you are, there you are so if you here or if your there you have to come of the mind set that a missionary isn't someone who goes out and shares the gospel but someone who shares the gospel period.
I think the idea of I am not a missionary allows us to think that's not what I am called to do and give us away out and we are not sharing the gospel. While this video in someway what make mission field attractive, I would say that it's far more adventurous, scary, thrilling to preach at home. A video just as attractive should be made about the guy passing out coffee on the corner or the guy caring for someone on the streets.
My home; our home (our country) seems in ruins right now and I think it's time for many of us to answer the call and be a missionary at home. If one person in a far off country can make such a big difference worthy of book or movie then why can't many of us make that same difference at home. According to the video it takes someone special to be a missionary, it doesn't really, it doesn't have to. "Special" is really no more than a person that will say "Yes I will do it". That's how special was I, I simply said yes.
I think again it goes to the mindset that this is my job because "I am a missionary" verses the person at home thinking my job is a "store clerk" or "contractor" or anything. The store clerk needs to be thinking "I am a Missionary" and the field is the store. Paul was a missionary that made tents for a time. He was a missionary while in jail, he was a missionary in life not just while in a specific place, crossing a boarder or an ocean shouldn't make me a missionary.
I implore you to think of missions as your job. Feel the great honor, blessing to serve our KING. To share should be our greatest joy and tremendous blessing.
Obviously it's not going to be easy, it's going to be hard but have you not sung the song "I am in the LORD's ARMY". We've said I am a soldier, don't be a lazy soldier who sleeps while the enemy advances.
Start small, work your way into it, go out as a group with confidence. Take your smart phone and look up answers you don't know. Truthfully I hardly know anything at all but it seems most of the time the knowledge it there when it's needed. I think God will give you the words if you try and use it.
Some questions I think about often.
Have I sewn any seeds today; what have we done?
Have I helped anyone get saved this week; what have I really done?
Have I enabled other to do it?
How valuable is my life if I am not doing what it was designed to so?
You might say I am to scared to stand on a street corner and talk to people or I don't know how.
Then be the worker, encouraging others to go driving them, lay out supplies, buy supplies for those who will use them, be a part of the work.
Let's not bury what God has entrusted us with.
Make it your mission to be a Missionary any were you are.
