"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever."-John Piper
Ok so I read this for a missions class that I am taking right now. This is the first paragraph of the book "Let the Nations be Glad." I was wanting to share this with you because this little paragraph has been stuck in my head for a week now, and I cannot get it out of my head.
As a part of worshiping we, as a church, are to do missions. Just as the passage says, when God comes back and we are all around His throne bowing down before Him, missions will be no more. Its all going to be about worship! Thats the way it should be now! Our "missions" should be because we want to be in constant worship with the God who created us and has given use the means to evangelize.
Something else that Piper says in his book is, "Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak." I'll let you chew on that for a little bit.
-Matt Davis
1 comments:
Good stuff man. Love Piper's excerpts on missions. You the man.
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