What is Missions
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A Christian mission is an effort by Christians in the service to God. Often its purpose is to spread the Gospel.
Missions are innovation in Christ, finding new ways to reach out.
Missions can involve finding new ways to do invitation - ways to meet non believers and lay 'Christians' to the Gospel, doorways that will allow people to come to Christ, and for committed Christians to meet other Christians and work together in fellowship.
We are not meant to work in isolated churches for the Gospel is global, and we are all here to serve God as the one global 'invisible' church
Missions will often involve spreading the effort outwards.
For example, making gospel songs and spreading this across the world is a form of a mission. Using technology to find ways to reach people opens doors to innovative missions. There are many kinds of missions that can help in educating and bringing awareness of the Gospel.
Early missionaries physically went to places to do missions.
These missions involve sending individuals and groups, called missionaries, across boundaries, most commonly geographical boundaries, to carry on evangelism or other activities, such as educational work, translating the Bible to local languages, church planting or hospital work.
The global scope of the Gospel forces us to think beyond our own individual Church and tribal identities and realize that God is building his kingdom in and through any community of many Christians who hold fast the gospel.
And because all of God’s people in the world belong to the one invisible church, the potential for partnerships across denominations and movements is vast (and yet startlingly untapped).
Voluntary cooperation by individuals and churches for missions is in accord with the practice of New Testament churches
