During a recent trip to Taiwan as part of the Upstream Collective, missiologist Ed Stetzer asked the question “Why are so many missional Christians uninvolved in God’s global mission?”

These are the 5 reasons he gives:

1. In rediscovering God's mission, many have only discovered its personal dimensions.
2. In responding to God's mission, many have wanted to be more mission-shaped and have therefore made everything "mission."
3. In relating God's mission, the message increasingly includes the hurting but less frequently includes the global lost.
4. In refocusing on God's mission, many are focusing on being good news rather than telling good news.
5. In reiterating God's mission, many lose the context of the church's global mission and needed global presence.

Read the whole post, including Stetzer’s proposed solutions, on his blog here:

• Five Reasons Missional Churches Don’t Go Global – and How to Fix It

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Most people living in the core of downtown Seattle have the mentality that they are only living there temporarily. Even if that’s the case, it’s important to invest in the area, get into community, and get on mission. Pastor Tim Gaydos is leading by example by raising his family in the urban core of the city. He wants to change the mindset of others and show that the core of downtown Seattle is a place worth settling down and investing in. Watch the embedded video below to hear from Pastor Tim about his vision.

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Is your church doing mission for its own glory or God’s? Want a cunning test to help you answer? Check out how much energy and passion (evidenced by money, prayer, interest) is invested in situations in other parts of the world for which you will get no credit. If it is not proportional to what is invested at home, then serious questions should be asked. If our passion is God’s honor and the fame of the Lord Jesus then we won’t be satisfied until the earth is filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea (Hab.2:14; Is. 11:9).

This will mean we get involved in planting churches all over the place and supporting other churches to plant churches, even when we don’t get a mention. It will mean sacrificially giving away our best people so that unreached areas of the world will be reached for Christ. World mission isn’t the preserve of the mission agencies; it’s the privilege and responsibility of every local congregation of believers (a.k.a. church).

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