Five Reasons Missional Churches Don't Do Global Missions-- and How to Fix It - EdStetzer.com
For all their talk of being "missional" many churches ar not being missionary-minded to the nations.
This brings up a comment I would like to post:
Many churches say that they must engage in their own Jeruslams, Judeas, Samarias before (as a prerequisite) they should engage in the Uttermost Parts of the Earth - but this conclusion cannot be drawn from the NT. This whole "Focus on your own Jerusalem first" is not the principle to be drawn from the NT text. Our focus must be outward and towards the nations. In efforts at engaging our Jerusalems, we cannot lose focus on the outward focus of the book of Acts.
For all their talk of being "missional" many churches ar not being missionary-minded to the nations.
This brings up a comment I would like to post:
Many churches say that they must engage in their own Jeruslams, Judeas, Samarias before (as a prerequisite) they should engage in the Uttermost Parts of the Earth - but this conclusion cannot be drawn from the NT. This whole "Focus on your own Jerusalem first" is not the principle to be drawn from the NT text. Our focus must be outward and towards the nations. In efforts at engaging our Jerusalems, we cannot lose focus on the outward focus of the book of Acts.