8 February 2026
THE CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONS
(Biblical Teachings on The Christian Life.: BTCL 20)
Someone once said, “Every heart with Christ is a missionary and every heart without Christ is a mission field”. This implies that every Christian has a missionary responsibility to preach the Gospel to everyone who does not know Christ as Lord and Savior. We are commissioned to “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every person” (Mark 16:15). So we have no excuse not to be sharing Christ with people God brings into our path.
Our Lord also commanded us be His witnesses after He has filled us with His Holy Spirit of power, love and wisdom (Acts 1:8; 2 Tim.1:7). To be a “witness” means that we are to tell people what we have heard and experienced of Christ in our life. This is sharing our testimony of how we came to know Christ, what He has done for us and how it affects our life since then. If every Christian faithfully does that, there will be many souls added to the Church and the Kingdom of God.
We do not need to be a professional preacher or graduate of a Bible School to share the Gospel or testify to someone about our conversion experience. In Mark 5, we read about a man called Legion who was possessed with 2,000 demons. After he met Christ, he wanted to follow Christ and the disciples back to Israel, but the Lord did not allow him. Instead, Jesus said to him, “Go home to your family and friends and tell them what the Lord has done for you and how He had mercy on you”. Immediately he went all over Decapolis and told everyone what the Lord had done for him” (v.19-20). Decapolis was a Province with ten cities. And he was only a day-old believer of Jesus. Does any of us now have any excuse to say “I don’t know how to testify for the Lord”? Obviously not!
Besides being a witness, Christians should also be involved missions outside his own locality and nation. We are commanded to “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to everyone… and make disciples of all peoples in all nations” (Mk 16:15; Matt 28:19). We can go on mission trips to the nations and preach to the peoples. Or, we can give up our lives to reach the nations as the Lord calls us. The least we can do is to pray for missionaries, pray for the Unreached People Groups (UPGs) and support missionary work in the nations.
We are now living in the last days and the last trumpet may sound any time and then we will be taken up“to meet the Lord in the air” (1 Thes.4:16-17). We do not want to meet our Lord Jesus empty-handed; we want to bring others with us. We cannot bring with us our money and assets but we can bring souls with us to Heaven. There will be great rejoicing among the angels of God when they see sinners who had repented and are now in Heaven with us (Luke 15:7). Hallelujah! Paul said to the believers who came to Christ through his ministry: “For what is our hope or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it not even you in the Presence of our Lord at His Coming?” For you are our glory and joy” (1 Thess.2:19-20).
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