all christians are missionaries
“May the peoples praise You, O God; may all the peoples praise You!” —Psalm 67:6
Before Jesus ascended into heaven, He commanded us to “make disciples of all the nations” (Mt 28:19) and to be His witnesses “even to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8). When the Holy Spirit spoke to the church of Antioch, He commanded it to set apart Sts. Barnabas and Saul to go on the first missionary journey (Acts 13:2).
God has made it clear that every Christian by definition is a missionary. Thus, we make ourselves the slaves “of all so as to win over as many as possible” (1 Cor 9:19). We make ourselves “all things to all men in order to save at least some of them” (1 Cor 9:22). In fact, we do all that we “do for the sake of the gospel” (1 Cor 9:23). With Jesus, we “have come to light a fire on the earth. How [we] wish the blaze were ignited!” (Lk 12:49)
Missionary of Jesus Christ, complete your mission. Jesus is waiting for the Good News of His kingdom to “be proclaimed throughout the world” (Mt 24:14). Then He will come back to earth and take His missionaries with Him.
Prayer: Father, give me missionary zeal.
Promise: “I have come to the world as its Light, to keep anyone who believes in Me from remaining in the dark.” —Jn 12:46
Praise: Three Dominican priests were kept busy hearing the confessions of those people whom St. Catherine of Siena had urged to reform their lives.
Reference: (To learn more about the Bible and to be a more fruitful missionary, we have several series of audio teachings. To start, consider listening to, downloading, or ordering our audio teachings on the whole book of Matthew, AV 700, 701, 702 and 703 on our website.)
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