The Mission of God

The whole Bible revolves around the person of Christ and His mission.

Jesus said “The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem” Luke 24 v 46,47.

The mission is not ours it is God’s. It is not so much that God has a mission for His church in the world, rather that God has a church for His mission in the world.

From Genesis 12 we know God to be totally, covenantally, eternally committed to the mission of blessing the nations through the agency of the people of Abraham. Jesus did not just arrive; He was sent with a mission. It was at His baptism that Jesus received an affirmation of His true identity and mission. The mission of the Servant was to be the agent of God’s salvation reaching to the ends of the earth (Isaiah 49 v 6). The mission of the Messianic king was both to rule the earth and receive the nations as His inheritance (Psalm 2 v 8). Mission flows from the identity of God and His Christ.

Mission for us means the committed participation of God’s people in the purposes of God for the redemption of the whole creation. Such an understanding of the mission of God turns upside down some of the common ways in which we are accustomed to think about the Christian life.

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