A bit about every Christian's global mission - from Radical, by David Platt:
If you were to ask the average Christian sitting in a worship service on Sunday morning to summarize the message of Christianity, you would most likely hear something along the lines of "The message of Christianity is that God loves me....enough to send his Son Jesus to die for me."
As wonderful as this sentiment sounds, is it biblical?
If "God loves me" is the message of Christianity, then who is the object of Christianity?
God loves me.
Me.
Christianity's object is me.
This is not biblical Christianity. The message of biblical Christianity is:
"God loves me so that I might make him known among all nations."
To disconnect God's blessings from God's global purpose is to spiral downward into an
unbiblical, self-saturated Christianity that misses the point of God's grace.
This is a foundational truth: God creates, blesses, and saves each of us for a radically global purpose.
If we are not careful we will be tempted to make exceptions. We will be tempted to adopt spiritual smoke screens and national comforts that excuse us from the global plan of Christ. In the process we will find ourselves settling for lesser plans that the culture around us - even the church culture - deems more admirable, more manageable, and more comfortable.
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