Called to the Mission
Mike Stone
Acts 1:8
If I were to ask, ''How many of you are Christians?'' hands would go up everywhere.
If I were to ask, ''How many of you are missionaries?'' there would be far fewer hands. And the difference in the hand-count is because of a fundamental misunderstanding of our responsibility as Christians to be on mission wherever we are.
A father overheard his young son tell his mother, ''I ain't going to the dentist.'' The father said, ''First of all, you are going! But you will also use good grammar. You don't say I ain't going.'' He began to describe to his son the proper way to conjugate the verb in that statement. He said, ''I am not going, you are not going, he is not going, we are not going, you all are not going, they are not going. Do you understand now, son?''
The boy replied, ''Yes sir. Sounds to me like there ain't nobody going!''
Well in a church world where not a lot of people are going, Jesus still says, ''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 is one of the most important verses in the Bible. This verse could be described as the purpose statement for the believer and the marching orders for the church.
In fact, a Christian without the truth of this verse is like a doctor without medicine, a carpenter without a hammer, and a teacher without some books. Now to understand this key Bible mandate, I want you to notice 3 things in the text.
The missionaries to be engaged (But you shall...2x)
When NASA plans a trip into space, they name the team. At a football game, there's emphasis on the starting quarterback. At a baseball game they announce the starting lineup.
Well Jesus names the mission team, appoints His starters, and announces the lineup. And He does it with a single word. You.
KJV says, ''Ye.'' Most of us know linguistically that ''ye'' means ...
Mike Stone
Acts 1:8
If I were to ask, ''How many of you are Christians?'' hands would go up everywhere.
If I were to ask, ''How many of you are missionaries?'' there would be far fewer hands. And the difference in the hand-count is because of a fundamental misunderstanding of our responsibility as Christians to be on mission wherever we are.
A father overheard his young son tell his mother, ''I ain't going to the dentist.'' The father said, ''First of all, you are going! But you will also use good grammar. You don't say I ain't going.'' He began to describe to his son the proper way to conjugate the verb in that statement. He said, ''I am not going, you are not going, he is not going, we are not going, you all are not going, they are not going. Do you understand now, son?''
The boy replied, ''Yes sir. Sounds to me like there ain't nobody going!''
Well in a church world where not a lot of people are going, Jesus still says, ''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 is one of the most important verses in the Bible. This verse could be described as the purpose statement for the believer and the marching orders for the church.
In fact, a Christian without the truth of this verse is like a doctor without medicine, a carpenter without a hammer, and a teacher without some books. Now to understand this key Bible mandate, I want you to notice 3 things in the text.
The missionaries to be engaged (But you shall...2x)
When NASA plans a trip into space, they name the team. At a football game, there's emphasis on the starting quarterback. At a baseball game they announce the starting lineup.
Well Jesus names the mission team, appoints His starters, and announces the lineup. And He does it with a single word. You.
KJV says, ''Ye.'' Most of us know linguistically that ''ye'' means ...
There are 15784 characters in the full content. This excerpt only shows a 2000 character sample of the full content.
Price: $5.99 or 1 credit
