Missional Worker Inspiration

Are you a missional worker? In Luke 10, Jesus appointed seventy-two people and sent them. He said, "I am sending you." Into the harvest fields they went. Jesus didn't say, "Some of you are only spectators." He didn't tell a group, "You stay inside the building while other go out into the world." No. Believers were sent.

I was sitting next to a firefighter recently. We were at a meeting of a Mission Society. This full-time firefighter coordinates and leads mission trips to Brazil. He told stories of medical journeys that changed people's lives as the love of Jesus was lived out and proclaimed. He described the way he helps local church members make a global difference. The firefighter is a missional worker. In the midst of his busy life, he has a mission focus and is being used by God to make Kingdom gains.

What about you? What's your mission? It doesn't have to be in South America. It can start at home!

Reggie McNeal, the articulate mission strategist, gave a talk recently that contained nugget after nugget of missional wisdom. For every missional worker, I'd like to share those quotes so your soul can be stirred to action as we ask the Lord of the harvest to send workers:

"We need to be apostolic, to share the faith with people who have no spiritual scripting."

"The culture is having a God conversation while we get distracted with church conversations."

"The Church is a who, not a what. If I am a believer, then everywhere I am is the Church, the sent ones. This expands the bandwidth of the Christian movement in the world."

"You run into Jesus where there are people in need."

"Apostolic preaching happens in the streets, marketplace, all the world. We made preaching an inside church thing."

"If we're the bride of Christ, what's on His heart needs to get on our hearts pretty quickly."

"The church's scorecard should be the measure of missional agents, not church attenders."

"The apostolic model is to deploy then debrief."

"Apostolic leaders make heroes of the right people."

"The best leadership releases you to bless people."

"You are a viral agent of the Kingdom."

Dear friends, you are sent! You are a missional worker! There is no failure for one who brings the blessing of Jesus to others.

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