In Sunday school this week, we had a missionary come in and lead class. He basically had the class find as many passages in Scripture about missions that we could. He gave us 30 minutes to find passages and then he had us read them aloud. We found over 30 verses as a class. The missionary used this fact to show us the importance of missions. However, the main thing he taught us in class was from the Great Commission. When we read the Great Commission, we tend to forget about the word "all". Christ wants us to go to "all" nations and baptize people in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. As a result, he told us that the United States was a part of "all" the nations. We do not have to go oversees or become career missionaries to make disciples of all nations. We can also make disciples of Christ in our home nation. This was encouraging to the class, it seemed like the class didn't realize they could be missionaries here. I think he inspired the class.
The other thing he emphasized was prayer. He challenged us to be people that intervened through prayer because things change when people pray. He told us about how the church of acts prayed for Peter when he was in prison after James was put to death. The church prayed and Peter was freed by an angel. He challenged us to be "but the church prayed" people. Peter could have died in Jerusalem at the hand of King Herod "but the church prayed" and he was freed. He used this to show us the importance of the church praying for amazing things to happen and then he requested that we, the church, pray for him in his ministry in Australia.
Questions
1.) What do you guys think about the power of prayer? Discuss it's implications with missions.
2.)How do you guys think we can be missionaries "baptizing people in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit" and make disciples of Christ in America?
1. Basically the power of prayer is pretty much amazing. I mean it our communication with God, it is so powerful. We have seen people being miraculously healed, people getting their needs. Prayer is powerful.
ReplyDelete2. Well one way we can be disciples is keep going in what our major is. With becoming ministers we have an awesome opportunity to become disciples to people who want to become disciples and become saved.
Dude sounds like your sunday school class is awesome. It's encouraging to here. Hope it keeps going well for yah.