Everybody needs Jesus.

The Importance of Your Mission. Fulfilling your life mission on earth is an essential part of living for God’s glory. The Bible gives several reasons why your mission is so important.

• Your mission is a continuation of Jesus’ mission on earth

As his followers, we are to continue what Jesus started. Jesus calls us not only to come to him, but to go for him. Your mission is significant that Jesus repeated it five times, in five different ways, in five different books of the Bible. It is as if he was saying, “I really want you to really get this!” Study these five commissions of Jesus & you will learn the details of your mission on earth the when, where, why & how.

In the Great Commission Jesus said, “Go and make disciple of all nations and make them my disciples. Baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teach them to do everything I have told you.” This commission was given to every follower of Jesus, not to pastors and missionaries alone. This is your commission from Jesus, and it is not optional. These words of Jesus are not the Great suggestions. If you are not a part of God’s family, your mission is mandatory.

To ignore it would be disobedience. You may have been unaware that God holds you responsible for the unbelievers who live around you. The Bible says, “You must warn them so they may live. If you don’t speak out to warn the wicked to stop their evil ways, they will die in their sin. But I will hold you responsible for their death.” You are the only Christian some people will ever know, and your mission is to share Jesus with them.

• Your mission is a wonderful privilege.

Although it is a big responsibility, it is also an incredible honor to be used by God. Paul said, “God has given us the privilege of urging everyone to come into his favor and be reconciled to him.” Your mission involves two great privileges: working with God and representing him. We get to partner with God in building of his kingdom. Paul calls us “co-laborers” and says, “We are workers together with God.”

Jesus has secured our salvation, put us in his family, given us his Spirit, and then made us his agent in the world. What a privilege! The Bible says, “We are Christ’s representatives. God uses us to persuade men and woman to drop their differences and enter into God’s work of making things right between them. We’re speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with God”

• Telling others how they can have eternal life is the greatest thing you can do for them.

If your neighbor had cancer or AIDS and you knew the cure, it would be criminal to withhold that lifesaving information. Even worse is to keep secret the way to forgiveness, purpose, peace, and eternal life. We have the greatest news in the world, and sharing it is the greatest kindness you can show to anyone.

One problem long-term Christians have is that they forget how hopeless it felt to be without Christ . We must remember that no matter how contented or successful people appear to be, without Christ they are hopelessly lost and headed for eternal separation from God. The Bible says, “Jesus is the only One who can save people.”

Everybody needs Jesus.
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