The Growth about the Missional Christian Assembly
Missional church is definitely a trendy title that is anywhere you look these days. the notion that we are required to label church buildings, missional, has for eternity been a tiny bit strange to me. I mean, shouldnt all church buildings be missional in their very character? why cant a church, at its very base, want to connect their culture and community with the gospel as a missionary would in a different country? Isnt what the churches is commanded to do in the sending out by Jesus in Matthew 28:19? Our own hometown deserves this brand of church. Churches in Austin is slowly going to what our Creator instructed in Scripture.
The messiah gives the challenge in Acts 1:8 saying, “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 exemplifies this topic as, right before Jesus Christ goes up to Heaven, He directs the disciples on a story that would begin right in their local community. He begins with their hometown of Jerusalem, and then expands the call to the outer parts of the creation.
As believers, we are not called to loneliness, but to be missional persons who are anxiously going out and meeting people right where they are with the gospel. We have noticed this throughout history: God moved Abraham on a mission to exit his place of origin and his people and go to the place that God would show him (Gen. 12:1), God sends Moses on a journey to renew an enslaved people and lead them to joy (Exodus 3:8-10), God moved Jesus on a exploration to world to bring back all things to Himself through the cross (Colossians 1:20). And now God is sending the church on a exploration to engage neighborhoods, cities, peoples, and even nations with the message of Jesus (Matt. 28:19 Mark 6:7 Luke 10:1 John 20:21 Acts 1:8). If we reject this encouragement and continue to perceive the bodies of Christ like a invite only country club ” encouraging that people straighten up their act, pay their fees, and visit to our place of worship God will continue His story without us.
