Hacker Speak

Missional church is definitely a popular saying that is anywhere you look these days. the idea that we are required to categorize churches, missional, has always been a little strange to me. I ask you, shouldnt all churches be missional in their very core? why cant a church, at its very nature, shoot to engage their culture and community with the gospel as a missionary would in a foreign country? Isnt this what the church buildings is commanded to do in the great commission in Matthew 28:19? Our own local area needs this type of church. Churches in central Austin is slowly gravitating to what Christ instructed in the Bible.

The Son of God gives the charge 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 exemplifies this concept as, right before Jesus Christ rises to Heaven, He sends the disciples on a exploration that would launch right in their personal community. He begins with their area of Jerusalem, and then enlarges the call to the many parts of the creation.

As Christians, we are not urged to social clubs, but to be missional people who are actively going out and going to areas right where they are with the story of Christ. We have gazed at this throughout history: God urges Abraham on a mission to move from his home and his people and go to the city that God would show him (Gen. 12:1), God motivated Moses on a story to rescue an enslaved people and lead them to joy (Exodus 3:8-10), God urges Jesus on a journey to globe to restore all things to Himself through the death of Jesus (Colossians 1:20). And now God is sending believers on a mission to engage neighborhoods, cities, people groups, and even nations with the good news (Matt. 28:19 Mark 6:7 Luke 10:1 John 20:21 Acts 1:8). If we dont respond to this urge and continue to perceive the places of worship like a closed off country club ” encouraging that people fix their talents, pay their dues, and visit to our church God will continue His mission without us.