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Missions is an expression of God’s nature because He is a sending God. A God who desires relationship with His people.
From creation, He actively reaches out to restore the lost. The Father sent the Son (John 3:16), the Son sent the Holy Spirit (John 14:26), and the Spirit empowers believers to continue the mission (Acts 1:8). God’s love, justice, and mercy are revealed through missions, as He calls all nations to salvation (Revelation 7:9). Therefore, evangelism and missions are not just activities of the Church but reflections of God’s character and His redemptive plan.
I believe that missions is an expression of the very nature of God because God Himself is a missionary God, actively seeking to redeem and restore creation. From the Old Testament, where He calls Abraham to bless all nations (Genesis 12:1-3), to the New Testament, where Jesus commissions His followers to make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:19-20), God’s heart for mission is evident. The Missio Dei (Mission of God) reflects His love, justice, and desire for reconciliation, demonstrating that mission is not just an activity of the church but a core aspect of who God is.
The Missio Dei (Mission of God) reflects His love, justice, and desire for reconciliation, demonstrating that mission is not just an activity of the church but a core aspect of who God is. Missio Dei is a Latin Christian theological term that can be translated as the “mission of God”, or the “sending of God”. In the beginning, there was a wonderful relationship between God and man, but the fall into sin damaged this relationship and the relationship was scarred. Adam and Eve turned their backs on God (rejected Him) by disobeying Him and following the advice of Satan. It is God (the one rejected) that took the initiative to reconcile man with Himself. In 2 Corinthians 5:18-20 It is a concept which has become increasingly important in missiology and in understanding the mission of the church since the second half of the 20th century.
When God created man, it was out of his likeness with the intention that man would dominate and have authority over the earth and everything in it and not adapt to the standard of it (Gen 1:26-27), however the now nature that man has adapted to which is sinful, has been separating us from experiencing the love of God by shying away from His presence in shame, now leading to those who are the body of Christ, given by Christ the authority, through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit to do the things that Jesus did and even more (John 14:12-28),by bringing the lost closer to God through His love, for the church to be restored and the lost gathered back into the Father’s house (John 17:3).
Missions is an expression of God’s nature.
1 John 4:8, “The one who does not love has not become acquainted with God[does not and never did know Him], for God is love.[He is the originator of love, and it is an enduring attribute of His nature.] (AMP)
John 3:16, Jesus tells us that God so loved the world that he “gave” His one and only begotten Son. God is love and in his love, he sent us his son. Missions is a result of us as God’s people, being obedient to his command in Matthew 28. Jesus said if we love him, then we will obey his commands. In this way we can see that missions is indeed an expression of God’s nature.
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