Free 5-Day Devotional: Align Your Life with God’s Missions

“My ambition has always been to preach the Good News where the name of Christ has never been heard, rather than where a church has already been started by someone else. I have been following the plan spoken of in the Scriptures, where it says, ‘Those who have never been told about him will see, and those who have never heard of him will understand.'”
— Romans 15:20-21

Excerpt

…I thought I was intensely missionary. I grew up in the church where the occasional missionary would come, and if we were lucky, show slides of his work in Africa. Then I grew up and became a pastor, and I would feel good that we were a missions church. I was content that I was a missions-minded Christian.

But that began to change. God completely dislocated my heart and gave me a real passion for missions — especially for reaching people who had never heard the Gospel of Christ. It all happened when I reluctantly got involved in a church-planting project in a remote, unreached region in Africa in 2004…

Today’s Assignment

Pray and ask God how he wants you to get involved in His mission. Pray that God will open your heart and make this your ambition as well. Billions of people are depending on it!