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Missional living is definitely a popular saying that is anywhere you look these days. The fact that we have to title bodies of Christ, missional, has forever been a tiny bit odd to me. I mean, shouldnt all church buildings be missional in their very character? it should be expected from a church, at its very base, yearn to introduce their culture and neighborhood with the message of Jesus as a missionary would in a another country? Isnt what the church buildings is instructed to do in the sending out by Jesus in Matthew 28:19? Our own local area requires this type of church. Austin church is slowly moving to what Christ instructed in the Gospels.

The messiah gives the command in Acts 1:8 saying, “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts 1:8 justifies this concept as, right before Jesus Christ rises to Heaven, He points the disciples on a story that would begin right in their individual community. He begins with their area of Jerusalem, and then broadens the call to the many parts of the creation.

As Christians, we are not called to isolation, but to be missional followers of Jesus who are aggressively going out and going to areas right where they are with the gospel. We have seen this throughout history: God urges Abraham on a mission to exit his place of origin and his people and go to the town that God would show him (Gen. 12:1), God sends Moses on a story to rescue an enslaved people and lead them to joy (Exodus 3:8-10), God urges Jesus on a story to globe to bring back all things to Himself through the cross (Colossians 1:20). And now God is sending us on a story to engage areas, cities, tribes, and even nations with the gospel(Matt. 28:19 Mark 6:7 Luke 10:1 John 20:21 Acts 1:8). If we dont respond to this encouragement and continue to display the bodies of Christ like a private country club ” requesting that people fix their performance, pay their fees, and come to our building God will continue His journey without us.

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