The Most Important Ministry

I have now been an official "Missionary" now for about 3 months and I have discovered some interesting paradigms that exist throughout our culture. As is always the case with humans, we have a tendancy to put varying titles and levels into everything that we do. I think one reason we do this is because we like to feel that what we are doing is the most important thing that can be done. We designate callings into Foreign Missions, Home Missions, Pastors, Evangelists, and even within these designations you find different levels and degrees. When we study the scriptures we will find that the most important thing that anyone can do is to do what God has called them to do. If God has called us to be a pastor in a community of 1,000 people, that is the most important thing that we can do. If God has called you to be a pastor in a metropolitan area of 5 million, that is the most important thing you can do. We will be judged with what God has given us to do, not by what we think sounds important. The truth of the matter is, Foreign Missions and Metro Missions would not be possible without many people answering the call to Pastor in the communities that they have been called to. I have been refreshed to see the excitement in many of the Pastors that I have been around when they talk about reaching their communities! We are all called to be missionaries in the culture and context that God has called us to. The scripture says in Acts 1:8 that we will be witnesses after the Holy Ghost has come upon us. There are no designations or degrees, we just find that God has called us to be witnesses! I challenge you to approach your day today as a missionary with a calling to reach the world! The way that you win the world is one soul at a time. It makes no difference where that soul is from and what culture they are from, every soul counts with God!