Have you ever wondered what God wants you to do with your life? How to find God’s will for your life? What ministries He wants you to get involved with? Exactly what does God expect from His children anyway?
God’s will for every Christian around the globe is essentially this: Make others into genuine disciples of Jesus Christ who, in turn, become passionate disciple-makers themselves.
This mission is the church’s core ministry today, tomorrow, and up until Christ returns to take us home. God’s desire for the church is that we passionately worship Him while selflessly serving others. Great Commission Discipleship is the very reason God gave His children supernatural spiritual gifts, and it’s also why He gave the local church gifted men to equip us for ministry (c.f. Ephesians 4:11-12). As a saved and sanctified Christ-loving disciple, you’re sufficiently equipped for the ministry of Great Commission Discipleship.
Pastor and conference speaker Mark Dever wrote, “Your conclusion that you are not gifted for a particular task does not absolve you of responsibility to obey. You may conclude that evangelism is not your gift, but it is still your duty.”
The church’s mission of glorifying God while making Christ-like disciples of all the nations is to be the priority of our earthly existence. It’s the very reason you’re here on earth and not in heaven right now. There are scores of ministries in which we may be found making Christ-like disciples, but every activity must be tested in the fires of holy living and—particularly—keeping our eyes fixed on the trophy of God’s ultimate glory.
Maintaining such a radical faith is not always easy (it rarely is), but it certainly is God’s will for you today.
Recently I was talking to a man who lives in my neighborhood. It was a gorgeous Sunday afternoon and he asked what I was planning to do later that day. I told him that my family usually goes back to church on Sunday evenings. Puzzled, he asked how many hours I spend in church on Sundays and, after tallying up the two morning services and an evening service, I said, “We probably go to church for about five or six hours every Sunday.” I’ll never forget his response. With a look of sheer horror, he said, “That’s a lot of God!”
And that’s precisely the problem with many people today. They’re just not interested in having a lot of God.
Horatius Bonar, the famous Scottish pastor from the nineteenth century summarized the mission of a Christian when he wrote, “Our position is such that we cannot remain neutral. Our life cannot be one of harmless obscurity. We must either repel or attract—save or ruin souls!”
When it comes down to it, that’s God’s will for your life. He wants you to not remain neutral and to passionately save or ruin souls!
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