Church Missions
What is the role of the local church to fulfill the mission of the church?
God prepared a physical body in Bethlehem for His Son Jesus Christ to complete his mission to work toward fulfilling God’s plan of establishing His kingdom. God has also prepared a physical body through which His mission is to be carried out to fulfill His plan today. His body is the local body of believers through which the Holy Spirit works called the local church.
The heart of the Great Commission revolves around the ministry of the local church for God’s plan to carry out His mission and is centered in the church body (Romans 12; 1 Corinthians 12; Ephesians 4:11-16). It is the only vehicle seen in the New Testament for the completion of the Great Commission.
It is the divine duty of the church and should be at the heart of every local church. Every church must be involved in God’s mission to win and disciple the peoples of the world making disciples where they are. In order to make disciples, the church must be a participant in the mission.
Every healthy church will be involved in the mission. Every healthy and mature church should see God call out missionaries. There may not be hundreds, but every church should see at least one missionary called out. For every one soldier on the front lines, it takes ten behind the lines to keep that soldier there. It is just the same to keep the missionary on the mission field. This process is called “missions”. The study of global missions is called missiology.
Missions is defined by God’s mission and is all about making disciples as we have clearly seen. Some people have the idea that missions is what you do in another place. However, missions is not just going somewhere to a foreign place and preaching the gospel. It is not defined by geography and it is not just about foreign missions.
Missions defines the believers target as the peoples of the world and it can take place anywhere if it’s being done right. It reveals the reality of differences between peoples and the responsibility of delivering the gospel to different peoples. That’s where discipleship and missions takes place. If a church is not involved in missions, it is evident it is not healthy. The key to the health of a church is how it reproduces itself.
Anyone can participate in missions and any church can give to the mission, but the spiritual believer and the spiritual church will be involved in world missions.
This is important because there is no legitimate missionary activity apart from the local church. It is the focus of God’s plan as revealed in the scriptures:
* It is God’s idea, not mans. (Matthew 16:18)
* It is the object of Paul’s missionary work.
* It is the recipient of Christ’s letters in Revelation 2-3.
* It is the recipient of at least 10 of the 27 books of the New Testament.
* It is the clear intention at least 95 of the 114 mentions of the word “church” in the New Testament.
The local church is God’s vehicle in which He works through in this age to fulfill His plan of the Great Commission. The business of the church and the body of Christ is to be involved in church missions to fulfill God’s plan.
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July 16th, 2010 at 6:15 am
AFFILIATE AND SUPPORT
CHRIST LOVE PENTECOSTAL MINISTRY GHANA .WE ARE CUURENTLY WORSHIPPING IN A SCHOOL BLOCK WHICH BELONGS TO THE GOVERNMENT. WE ARE ABOUT 25 PEOPLE KNOW.
WE ALSO DO HAVE A PROGRAMME CALLED (EXCELLENT CHRISTIAN EDUCATION) FOR ALL WHO ARE WILLING TO JOIN US SHARE CHRIST GOSPEL TO THE UNREACHED. WE PLEASE ASK FOR YOUR KIND DONATIONS, FINANCIALLY AND BIBLES AND OTHER LITERATURES FOR OUR RURAL EVANGELISM IN THE RURAL PART OF OUR NATION GHANA.
HEAD PASTOR- Rev’d Francis K. Oduro
ASSISTANT PASTOR- Pastor Raphael Mileba.
SRCRETARY- Sister Irene Dzamgah.
ADDRESS – CHRIST LOVE PENTECOSTAL MINISTRY
P.O.BOX KN 2074 KANESHIE, ACCRA GHANA / WEST AFRICA.
TELE OO233244631137
December 16th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Dear Pastor Friend,
Greetings to you in the name of Jesus,
we have read your wonderful ministries words. We are praying for you and your family and your Ministry. We would like to become a partnership with you and with you Ministry. In the of July 4th to 12thth 2011. We are planning to arrange the Pastors conference and outreach Revival meetings so by this time you are welcoming you and your family to preach and teach the God message in the midst of the Indian people and pastors.
Please come to India to teach and preach midst of us. This is what God is going to plan with you and with your beloved family please pray for these Meetings. I and my wife and the Pastors fellowship would like to invite you as one of main speaker of any one of the above meetings. We would like to you hear your sound full message in India. May the grace of the lord Jesus be with you and your beloved children and your church people and my love to all of you in Christ Jesus! happy Christmas and Marry Christmas to your family! We will be pleased to hear from you soon, Jesus love.
Pastor John Prasad
Aids Global Children Ministries
INDIA
Please visit our http://www.agcma.org
My cell number 0091- 9676795407
January 8th, 2011 at 7:11 am
Dear brother and sister
my name Ramesh from india tamil nadu.
From 5 years I am running the apostolic glory mission trust
brother & sister if you have any project of bible, please give, we shall
co-operate with…you and do the project. We also do orphan and adult
literacy ministry..
Waiting for a good reply.
May good be with you always.
a. God Bless You.
Yours brother in Christ
Rev. Ramesh Timothy
February 19th, 2011 at 12:51 pm
I am an Evangelist Decenta David (Your Sister in Christ) is working among the women and children of Pakistani nation. Our women and children need Holy Bibles and other literature related to education. We are group of women working for God but need your support and prayers to continue the mission. God bless you, your mission, and your ministry. We will always pray for you whenever we will gather together for prayers. The literacy rate is low in Pakistan specially for women we are planning to teach them by giving adult literacy ministry and by helping the poor children by giving them education. We request to visit us in Pakistan and guide and teach our children and women. We hope that you will think on it sympathetically. Don’t forget to visit our page on facebook.
“The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few” Matthew 9:37
God bless you and your missionary team.
Waiting for your reply,
Evangelist Decenta David
David Ministries-Pakistan
“Women Prayer Fellowship & Children Ministry”
P.O. Box 7154, G.P.O Saddar Karachi Pakistan
Contact: +923212026453
E-mail:davidministriespk@yahoo.com
April 4th, 2011 at 1:58 am
My name is Pastor Boniface Kangethe from Kenya in Nairobi. i have been called by God as a pastor and therefore I have working as a voluteer in different churches as well as children and youth pastor. I love kids ministry so much.
i wish to inivite you to open a branch here in Kenya so as we can help in reaching the desperate,frustrated and unreacher souls; I have been called to reach these souls but I have not not been able to open any due to financial constraints.
I have also a burden in helping and starting a home for the orphans and street children from slums and vulnerable. They are perishing in the streets and others mistreated by their relatives and have nowhere to call home this Ministry would create a place for these isolated ones.
Am looking forward to working with your Ministry. May God bless you as you plan to open one so as to serve our God as well as reaching the unreached, poor and desperate people.
Yours in Christ.
Pastor Boniface Kangethe.
cell-phon-+254[0]715797390
November 24th, 2011 at 1:06 am
Dear Pastor Church Mission,
Receive our greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are your brother and sister in Christ. We are pastors peter and Rose in Kenya East Africa. We thank the Lord so much for allowing us to come to your contact in the Internet through your web page. After going through your messages and have seen you have the heart for Nations.
We are impressed, interested and would like to extend our humble request invitation to you to come to Kenya, meet brothers and sisters in the Lord, visit us and share with us the word of the lord. We will gratefully appreciate and our good God will bless you abundantly. Your ministry is good and unique i love already.
If you are able and come we will share more and see what God can do together to reach souls to Christ.
Please know that we love you already, praying and waiting to read from you soon.
Thank you and God bless you.
Yours in Christ,
peter & Rose Ogalo