1 April 2007
What’s your mission?
This weekend @ Southbrook hundreds and hundreds of individuals reconnected with their reason for living.
I’m serious.
Most people want to be happy, but they go about it by chasing ‘deadend’ methods like trying to gain power, prestige, or more ‘stuff.’
But those rainbows do not have a pot of gold at the end of them, just heartache and regret. That’s because true happiness comes from knowing your purpose and living it out. This weekend we learned that all Christ Followers begin with one mission in common — we are all ambassadors for the living God!
So, at the end of each service we gave everyone a chance to reconnect with their mission from God.
Truth is, the Blues Brothers shouldn’t be the only ones on a “mission from God,” we all are. And that mission is to tell a lost and confused world about the love and forgiveness AND salvation offered to them by God through His Son, Jesus Christ.
This weekend, as we closed out our 3 week series, “The Office,” nearly 1,000 people came forward to get their REAL business cards and began realigning their lives for their true mission from God.
Do you know your mission and purpose?
Because the fact is, if you’re a Christ follower, you’ve been given a ‘mission from God.’
But that’s not the same as being ON a mission from God.
Some of God’s ambassadors have never shown up for a single day’s work.
Have you accepted your mission???
This blog entry will self destruct in 30 seconds…
better get crackin!!!
2 Comments currently posted.
JT says:
Matt Langley says:
I knew what my mission was but I was not doing everything I could to complete it. (at least as much as we can do to complete it in this life)
Thank you Rob for giving us the “course corrections” that the Holy Spirit leads you to pass on to His flock. I am definately on a mission from and for God!
It is refreshing to attend a church that is continually focusing on the lost and reminding those of us that are Christ-followers how simple our job is. There has been much focus in this blog and in others that are out there giving alot of ‘air-time’ to those that are not happy and those that want to be destructive. Obviously those are not attributes of Christ, no matter how important those ‘things’ are to certain people.
Our job as Christ-followers is simple…to love our neighbors as ourself, and to SEEK and save the lost. Listen up, when we get to heaven the most important question asked to us is going to be…”What did you do with the gift (salvation) that I feely gave you and that you freely accepted?” How are you going to answer that??
Whether you are a type A personality that is people oriented or you are one who let’s your actions do the talking at some point you have to connect with people on a relational level. LIfe is about relationships and about the people that we are able to influence towards the cause of Christ wheter in word or deed (There goes the KJV in me again!)
Let’s focus on what the community needs and those that need to be saved not on the negative that creeps its ugly head from time to time.
Good friday is quickly approaching, and I have it on good authority (Dan) that the service is going to be AWESOME! Let’s all pray together that many more will come to know the Christ that saves so that they too are able to hear the question…”What did you do with the gift that I freely gave and you freely accepted?”
Serivng him until the end!