Who do you know is a missionary?

Did you know that there is one missionary everyone knows?

Who is it?

God!

God is a missionary God. The Lord declares throughout Scripture that his passion is for all the nations to praise him. The great goal of God is his glory. To achieve that goal he must disciple  the nations. The Father must call his chosen ones from throughout all the nations (1 Pet. 1.1-2). Christ must purchase men from every tribe, tongue, people and nation (Rev. 5.9). That is why he is a missionary God. Mission is the means to bring many to glorify God. In the words of John Piper:

Missions exist because Worship doesn’t.

One of the ways RMCC hopes to inflame our hearts for missions is by encouraging every member to go on a short-term mission. Such mission ventures expose us to peoples, languages, cultures and circumstances that we are not familiar with; by doing that it can help us to “think outside the box” of our own culture and cultural practices. It can enlarge our hearts for a greater passion to see God’s word proclaimed at home and abroad.