Why Should I involve in God’s Mission?

 

Why Should I involve in God’s Mission?

Rev.Dr. Emmanuel Rajan

Our nation India is a vast nation with more than 600,000 villages in it. While more than 500,000 villages have no Churches in them, people in more than 300,000 villages have never heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It may sound unbelievable, yet it is true to its core. There are more than 4500 people groups in India. The Nation of India needs to be reached with the good news. There are thousands of people in India, perishing without the Saving Knowledge of One True God Jesus Christ.We have to fulfil the will of God I Tim2: 4  which says “God our Saviour, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. We have to involve in God’s mission:

Because it is God’s command

"Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to all creation." (Mark 16:15) With these words, Jesus made it clear exactly what His disciples were to do - they were to spread His teachings in His name, preaching salvation unto the ends of the earth. (Rom. 10:18) If you consider yourself a "believer", then you must consider yourself a "disciple" of Jesus .Every believer is called to spread the Good News about Jesus to those who have not yet heard. Jesus' command is definite and clear - it is His great mandate, His "Great Commission" to the soldiers in His holy army. We must go, because our great General has commanded us to go.

 

Because the need is so great.

"The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore, beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest." (Matt. 9:37-38). Ever since Jesus first spoke these compassionate words, the supply of workers in the fields of soul-harvest has always been horribly low. But today the need is the greatest it has ever been in the history of mankind. There are more than 3000 ethnic people groups in India. They are yet to have a worshipping fellowship among them. There are 222 languages in India, each of which is spoken by at least 10,000 people. Of these 71 languages do not have any Scripture portion. How can the people be disciplined to follow Christ, if they do not have the Scripture in their own mother tongue? There are about 27,000 postal codes in India. In 1998, it was found that 18,000 of these postal code areas did not have a single resident Christian worker as a witness.  Do these figures move you at all? Does it matter to you that an estimated 20,190 unsaved people die every day (approximately 841 every hour...14 people every single minute!) to face the judgment seat of Christ?

 

Because  workers are few

"Faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the Word of Christ...how shall they hear without a preacher?" (Rom. 10:17,14) India is closed to missionaries from other countries, but Indian missionaries can travel to any part of our country and preach the Good News. The North Indian states, where more than 600 million people live, contain less than 2% of the Christians: Rajasthan (0.12%), Uttar Pradesh (0.15%), West Bengal (0.6%), Tripura(1.2%), Punjab (1.1%), Orissa (1.9%), Maharastra (1.3%), Gujarat (0.39%), Bihar (1.1%), and Jammu and Kashmir (0.14%). More than 90% of our evangelistic efforts are carried out by about 4.5% of the Christians in our country. More than 98% of our Christian books and magazines address only Christians. More than 98% of our income is spent on Christians, themselves. There are about 10,000 missionaries and about 30,000 other believers working in Cross-Cultural situations. Our Evangelistic efforts should increase to meet this tremendous need

Because it is God's will to spread the Gospel.

"And the Lord said to Abram, 'Go forth from your country and from your relatives, and from your father's house...and I will bless you and make your name great, and so you shall also be a blessing; and I will bless those that bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.'" (Genesis 12:1-3) Abram (later to be renamed Abraham by God) is only one of the many people in the Bible who God used mightily only after he left his own people, his own land, and his own culture. Look at the travels and ministries of people like Jacob and Moses - both of whom had to go into other lands to learn from God and be used by Him.And then there's the apostle Paul - who had such a burden for his own people and country, Israel. Oh , how he would have loved a ministry among the Jews! But what did God say? "Go! For I will send you far away to the Gentiles." (Acts 22:21) That's what God commanded, and "go" he did. Never was there a missionary like Paul. Take a look at II Corinthians 11 if you'd like to see a list of his qualifications: beatings, imprisonments, stonings, mobs, shipwrecks, the list goes on and on - and so did Paul, obeying his Master who bought him.

Because we know the Lord personally

Oswald J. Smith said, "No one has the right to hear the Gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once." "But if our Gospel be hidden, it is hidden to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, that they might not see the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God." (II Cor. 4:3-4). Has it occurred to you that Jesus wants every creature to hear the Gospel? If you had 20 children to feed and plenty of food to feed them all with, do you think it would be right to give 3 of the children 10 meals, 7 children only 1 meal, and the remaining nothing - causing them to die of starvation? That's exactly what we're doing with the Gospel in the world today! Because we believers are so deaf to God's call to go into all nations, we keep most of God's resources to ourselves! We keep feeding and reaching the same people over and over again. If we fail to go and do the mission, then who will?

Because the time is short.

"We must work the works of Him who sent me, as long as it is day; night is coming, when no man can work." (John 9:4). At present country after country where missionaries used to be welcome, but now the doors are closed to them entering. Though it is true that many Christians can still go to be subtle witnesses as doctors, teachers, engineers, etc., the Gospel can no longer be openly preached in many lands. Although there are still vast areas of the world wide open for foreign evangelism, such as western Europe, parts of Asia, and most of the Pacific (Japan, South Korea, Singapore, etc.) there are many other countries where it is illegal to hold a street meeting or pass out Gospel literature. We need to sense the urgency of this hour, and obey God by reaching out to those lost in the darkness "while it is still day."

 

The Spirit of God is working in our Nation

You should go because the Holy Spirit is speaking to Christian leaders all over the world that it is God's desire for there to be a great final missionary thrust with the Gospel before the end of the age. It is His desire that every people should have the Gospel preached to them, and that the Gospel should be published in every nation and in every language. And unless YOU get involved personally, there is no hope of that ever happening in our generation! "...And you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth." (Acts 1:8) "And this gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a witness to all the nations, and then the end shall come. " ( Matt. 24:14) "The Lord is...patient toward you, not wishing for you to perish but for all to come to repentance." ( II Peter 3:9)

Conclusion:

Is there any doubt in your mind that God wants everyone to be saved? If you believe this, and you really love Jesus, then WHY are you so timid about getting involved in this great thrust to bring the Gospel to all the nations? Come let us build His Kingdom together in our nation India.