I was doing some pilfering through the net today and came across this quote by John Piper that blew me away. I am looking foward to your comments on this one!
"Missions exists because worship doesn't."
Evangelism and Missions by Ron Blue
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That is a great quote. There is a christian hip hop artist that has a song called "Send Me" and it's all about missions, but here in America. Really convicting song.
"America's not christian, they're just practicing the ritual." - Lecrae
We will always have a mission field whether it is in our homes, on our street or across an ocean. We have the great commission because Jesus knew this.
I guess I would contend then that missions is worship. The Bible says that to obey is better than sacrifice. Giving of ourselves in obedience to the great commission is worship of the highest order.
I think that the real issue then is action. Does our faith have works (obedience), whos natural result is worship?
I would have to agree with the temporary Abu Dhabian in that the mission field is around us daily. Any person without Christ is part of that mission. I don't see any biblical evidence pointing to the fact that Paul took off on his many missionary journeys as a result of lack of worship.
I will say this, since I have not read the article I'm probably pretty far off base as far as context goes concerning this statement.
missions exist because people are dying and going to hell. I take this quote like this, we have missions because of worship, if we didn't worship, what is the point of missions? Or we do missions in order to worship. Which is pretty selfish to me. isn't that works before faith? I think a lot of times we get so selfish and believe that it is by our works that God gets stuff done. God can speak through nature, rocks, animals, He really doesn't need the idle works of man. Therefore God works through the worship of His people, which would result in missions.
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That is a great quote. There is a christian hip hop artist that has a song called "Send Me" and it's all about missions, but here in America. Really convicting song.
"America's not christian, they're just practicing the ritual." - Lecrae
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We will always have a mission field whether it is in our homes, on our street or across an ocean. We have the great commission because Jesus knew this.
I guess I would contend then that missions is worship. The Bible says that to obey is better than sacrifice. Giving of ourselves in obedience to the great commission is worship of the highest order.
I think that the real issue then is action. Does our faith have works (obedience), whos natural result is worship?
Hi from Abu Dhabi!
I would have to agree with the temporary Abu Dhabian in that the mission field is around us daily. Any person without Christ is part of that mission. I don't see any biblical evidence pointing to the fact that Paul took off on his many missionary journeys as a result of lack of worship.
I will say this, since I have not read the article I'm probably pretty far off base as far as context goes concerning this statement.
missions exist because people are dying and going to hell. I take this quote like this, we have missions because of worship, if we didn't worship, what is the point of missions? Or we do missions in order to worship. Which is pretty selfish to me. isn't that works before faith? I think a lot of times we get so selfish and believe that it is by our works that God gets stuff done. God can speak through nature, rocks, animals, He really doesn't need the idle works of man. Therefore God works through the worship of His people, which would result in missions.
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