FAITH with EVIDENCE - The Truth of Mission through Serving
About Mission
The heart of Christian mission is to share God’s love, His good news of the Gospel, and be a blessing to others.
“He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” 1 John 4:8
“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.” John 15:9-10
“This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.” John 15:12
It is the will of our Lord that we proclaim His commandment and spread the Gospel to save souls. To serve the Lord comfort the needy, feed the hungry, and help the afflicted.
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20
"Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone everywhere." Mark 16:15 NIV
“Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave Me food, I was thirsty and you gave Me drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in, I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’” Matthew 25:34-36
Be a blessing to others. Our Father in heaven sees our deeds to glorify Him and will increase the blessing of our harvest.
We understand faith requires work, and we work in obedience to the Lord. "What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead." James 2:14-17
Believers of Jesus are the salt and the light of the world. "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven." Matthew 5:16
Jesus is coming back soon.
“And the gospel must first be preached to all the nations.” Mark 13:10
“Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields for they are already white for harvest!” John 4:35
“The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.” Matthew 9:37-38
“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.” John 15:5
Sow the seed; do the planting and watering. God will make it grow. “The seed is the word of God.” Luke 8:11
“So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.”1 Corinthians 3:7
God blesses those who follow Christ and share the word of God. Many enter various ministries and mission fields to serve the Lord tirelessly with total commitment denying worldly rewards and self-benefits.
Unfortunately some treat preaching God’s word like a secular job. In the name of Jesus, they seek self-ambitions, control, power, and lucrative compensations. Forgetting the grace of God, they trade inheritance for a bowl of stew like Esau (Genesis 25:29-33) and drain the resources from God’s true mission. “For many are called, but few are chosen.” Matthew 22:14
We are entering the era of advance technology in mass media communications making it possible for every individual to effectively spread the true Gospel around the world.
In obedience to the Lord, we can make a difference in deeds. Support the true missions of Christ. Pray for more volunteers and self-financed ministries without soliciting donations that would also help to alleviate the public’s cynical view of organized religion, which often becomes a stumbling block to the Gospel.
“When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, ‘Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.’”Mark 8:34
Make the world a better place before Jesus returns. Share our praise of God's blessings daily with someone. Be a blessing to others when possible. Each person takes up ones own cross to follow Christ and to glorify God. “... according to the gift of the grace of God and by the effective working of His power.” Ephesians 3:7
“As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.” 1 Peter 4:10
”There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.” 1 Corinthians 12:4-6
"Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow." Isaiah 1:17
“In all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, reverence, in corruptibility, sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an opponent may be ashamed having nothing evil to say of you.” Titus 2:7-8
”Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.” 2 Timothy 4:2-5
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10
“And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” Galatians 6:9
“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13
“And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—“ John 14:16
Walk with our Lord Jesus Christ in pursuit of His purpose according to our given talent, gift, and interest. It’s all between you and God.
