Being An On Mission Church

Illustration: Many of you heard Kevin Greeson preach here a couple of months ago. He is a missionary to the people in Bangladesh. One thing that continues to stand out in my mind as he talked about the kind of indigenous people they are praying to continue to take the gospel to the Bangle people is that these men and women be willing to die for the gospel! This sounds so foreign to us but it is right on target with what the Bible has to say. Some of us just need to start living for the gospel!

Our thinking is going to have to change in these areas if we are going to be the kind of On Mission people God wants us to be. Fifty years from now I do not want NCC to be known as the church with the nice logo or as the church that met on Saturday night’s. I want this church to be known as the church who impacted the world. What I mean by that is we impacted the world by giving sacrificially to help support missions around the world. Because of our financial support we were able to provide the necessary means to get the gospel into a closed country. Right now our church gives about 4% of our giving to mission causes. Honestly, that is not enough. We can do more. I want NCC to be known as the church who started other mission minded churches who had the same heart. Those mission minded churches we start would in turn start other mission minded churches. I want NCC to be known as the church who every year sent out dozens and dozens of our members on short term mission projects. It can happen. It’s possible….it’s within our reach.

In Acts 13:36 the scriptures tell us, “David did God’s will during his lifetime. The he died and was buried beside his ancestors.” What an awesome thing to be put on your tombstone! May this be said of all of us.