The current buzz word is that the church should be missional. When asked what that means it usually means that the church should be what the church should be. However, missional has replaced missions and that would not be bad but something else happened on the way.
The church has decided that it needs to be involved in it community. That is good, that was what it was established in the community to do. But the church forgot that it is to be a blessing to the nations. We can be missional and missionary at the same time but somewhere we have allowed the former to replace the later. Let us be missional but not forget missions.
The Lord's prayer says, Your kingdom come. The kingdom involves people from all nations. Churches need to renew their vision of missions while keeping alive the missional aspect of ministry. They shouldn't be different but they have become different.
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