Learn more about Missions
Missions is all about God. God acting to redeem His creation and bring it back in to a relationship with Himself through Jesus Christ.
Learning about missions starts with learning about God through the Bible and seeing how He used men and women to fufill His purposes on earth.
Missions is also about what God is doing today around the world to build Christ's Church. Here are some ways to learn more.
- Search for the word "nations" through the Old and New Testament.
- Memorize Great Commission verses: Gen 12:1-3; Psa 67:1-7; Matt 24:14; Matt 28:18-20; Mark 16:15; Luke 24:45-49; Acts 1:8, Rev 5:9-10 and Rev 7:9-10.
- Acts 1:8 says "you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth." Trace that mission outline throught the book of Acts.
- Go through a missions Bible study such as:
- Read a good introduction to missions
- Read Joshua Project missions articles
- Read missionary biographies:
- Sign up for missions newsletters and magazines:
- Put up a wall-sized unreached peoples map in your dorm room or office:
- Get the Unreached of the Day by:
- Mobile app - available in both Android and iOS.
- Email - select the days you would like to receive it.
- Podcast - subscribe to the audio version.
- Web Widget - totally customize it to match your website.
- Calendar - see a full month of the Unreached of the Day.
- View Prayercast videos
- Pray through the THUMB videos
- Use Operation World Book, DVD, CD-ROM, eBook
- Participate in a prayer network such as:
- Learn how to obey the Great Commission and make disciples who multiply through the Zume Project: an on-line and in-life small group learning experience.
- Find your place in God's story through the Momentum Course.
- Use these free missions videos and resources to mobilize your small group or Sunday school class.
- Sign up for Perspectives - a course which helps believers from all walks of life see how they can connect into God’s story of redeeming people from every tribe, tongue, and nation to Himself.
- Listen to a missions sermon. Suggested messages by: John Piper or David Platt.
- Go through a missions Bible study such as God's Mission and Christian Missions or The Blessing in your small group.
- Meet with a missionary to learn more about their work.
- Have a missionary share with your small group, Sunday School class or church.
The Kurd, Turkish-Speaking in Turkey are an example of a unreached people group.
