Whether ‘Here or There’: GOING is Not Optional
Our world is filled with so many different options that it often creates a ‘take it or leave it’ mentality. GOING and engaging people with the Good News of God’s saving grace through Jesus Christ, is not optional.
3 ways God equips us to GO:
1. The local church (vs. 1-3)
- Although all believers are commissioned to GO and make disciples, the Lord does set apart certain people for “specific” missional assignments
- God commissions those He sets apart through the local church by the laying on of hands
As a part of the local church, do you fully grasp the reality that you are part of God’s “Plan A” for reaching the world? This should motivate each one of us to be in community and to support one other, so that we will be effective in GOING to share the Gospel ‘here’ as well as sending and supporting those God calls to GO ‘there.’
2. The leading and power of the Holy Spirit (vs. 4-12)
- It is critical to remember that it is only through the power of the Holy Spirit that we can live out Jesus’ mission (cf. Acts 1:4-8; Jn. 15:5)
- As we live missionally and GO make disciples, some will be open to God’s Word, some will be opposed to God’s Word, and some will embrace God’s Word
Do you have the desire to GO and share the Good News, but can’t seem to get over your fears? Perhaps you are relying too much on your own strength and wisdom. “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding” (Prov. 3:5). Remember the Word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: “not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD Almighty” (Zech. 4:6).
3. The authority, sufficiency, and power of His Word (vs. 14-52)
- “The word of God is alive and active”; “it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes” (Cf. Heb. 4:12; Rom. 1:16)
- GOING and sharing the Good News will require knowing the Gospel (2 Tim. 2:15), staying true to the Gospel (1 Cor. 15:2), and being flexible in communicating the Gospel to different people (cf. 1 Cor. 9:19-23)
If GOING and making disciples is not optional, then what area of sharing the Good News do you need to work on? Is it your knowledge of the Gospel? Is it making sure you are not compromising the message of the Gospel? Or is it becoming flexible in the way you communicate the Gospel to different people?
Stay closely connected with the body of Christ, trust in the power of the Holy Spirit and the power of God’s Word, and by faith, GO and proclaim the Good News about the truth of Jesus Christ!
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