Missionary Work and Its Evolvement in Christianity

After I turned sixteen (16) years of age, I felt the presence of the Holy Spirit calling to me and directing me to serve as a missionary in the field. My internal strength is always my sense of faith since I feel so strongly that my destiny lies in helping my neighbour as well as seeking a higher purpose that my faith leads me towards a path of tranquillity and harmony with my Father. As a result of my predilection of helping others, I have decided to act onto God's will and gravitate towards missionary service rather than talking but, in fact, executing my quest. In addition, the realization of assisting altruistically my fellow man on a global basis added another layer of purpose that serves my Father on several levels towards my missionary life. For example, I’ve always felt a need to help other to seek a better life for themselves spiritually, physical, and mentally since I have made a consciousness decision to follow my desire help others for the greater need of others rather than my own needs that is more than satiating my need to work with those in need of life skillsets.

This book calls the church to rethink and modify its practices, by providing a middle path between the emerging church and the conservative that aims to benefit all. There are major shift happening in the Western Church that has people talking. The problem is that churches fail to follow a mission-centered approach. Chester and Timmis have found that in order to refocus the churches

A missionary is an ambassador of Christ. Each must be yielded to the Lord, loving Him with all the heart, soul, mind, and strength. Specifically, a missionary is one whom God sends through the support of the Church to the unreached. All Christians, however, are called to be missionaries of the Gospel. The Lord works through them to rescue the lost and hurting in this world. The lifestyle is definitely not easy and is very extreme at times. Christianity is synonymous with a life of extreme danger. Yet even though personal hostility, danger, and martyrdom may not be present in your life, there is something else you are experiencing in your current Christian walk. Today in the world there are hundreds of thousands of countries that are either

Ever since the missionaries have arrived everything has been so crazy, so many things have been changing mainly for the good. The missionaries have been so kind to us they have been trying to share their Christian religion with us, however there are some people who still strongly believe in the gods and some of those people are my dad, eldest sister, and my second youngest brother. We have been getting into quite a lot of arguments because they keep on telling me and the rest of my family that it is silly to believe in anything but the gods.

The first religious mission had started with the early Christians, and it consisted of little groups of priests to disseminate Christianity. In addition, the concept of the mission has changed over the years and no longer depends only on diffusion of the Christian religion, but also it went beyond that to support people, provide food for the homeless and help them to have a better life. According to Fr. Paul Spotts, a missionary priest, “the work of the mission is not reserved to clergy or nuns but to all the members of the church. There are many missionaries who are not priests and over 18 years old. They are doctors, teachers, lawyers, economics and on”(Spotts, personal communication, 2015). That shows the collaboration among the organization’s members to achieve and succeed in their humanitarian work. Each member of the religious mission has a specific job to do. The priest has to celebrate mass, teach the Gospel and baptize the new believers. The teacher should teach the parishioners’ children. The doctors examine, diagnose and treat patients. The economics often forecast, analyze the economic situations and aid the church’s operational efficiency and so on. Indeed, this substantiation confirms the success of the missionary church in its mission. As a matter of fact, the harmony and diversity of the evangelists make a fruitful and complete

I always thought that I knew the meaning of the term ‘missions’ although the past experience of my church home never explicitly talked about or participated in what I understood missions to be. In fact, my comprehension of missions was attributed to TV shows and movies. Naively, I thought that missions only occurred in foreign lands by saved individuals who often died from obscure diseases. As one may guess, because of watching those ill-fated pictures, the work of missions never appealed to me. It was not until I became an adult that I understood missions could occur anywhere, not just in foreign, third world countries. What could be construed as a pious sense of relief, I recognize that missions have always been a part of my Christian life.

There are many organizations or careers what could surprise any person that wants to know the primary role of them. One of these organizations is the Catholic Church that is considered the oldest one. After Jesus Christ, the church continued with a new leader, Saint Peter, who became the first Pope of the Catholic Church. Since the first century till these present days, the Catholic Church has continued its mission and expanded where it almost shows in every country in the world. Its mission has varied among the priests’ missionaries, volunteer works and the humanitarian aids. To understand the Catholic Church mission and its continuity for two thousand years, it must highlight some individual characteristics like its cultural function, the

The Bible tells us to go and make disciples, which is to be on mission. But what else does the bible tell us about being on mission? God wants us to learn more about missions, pray for missions, give to missions, and do missions. By looking into specific scripture, along with other notable resources, it will be determined what mission/missions are, why we are to go on mission, and how Christians are supposed to go about doing the mission work of God.

In living through Jesus’ call and mission, the church must impact the world by proclaiming good news to the poor and setting the captive free. It is a call

Much can be learned from early church missionaries. Two such missionaries were Ninian (360-432) and Patrick (389-461). Ninian, the "apostle of Scotland," was "trained in Rome," but was British.1 While in France, Ninian, an "apostle of Scotland," was introduced to the idea that "a monk should be a missionary."2 He established Christianity with the people group known as the Southern Picts.3

I am going to utilize the learned Missio Dei practices in my ministry context according to the analysis of my personal and communal assessments, provided in this paper. At the end, I want to remind myself that mission is the overflow of the love of God. Most of all, the missional community can only be sustained by being deeply rooted in Trinity’s communion of love, which results in living out our mission – "Authentic Christian witness is not only in what we do in mission but how we live out our mission" (2013,

In this paper, I plan to discuss two topics from DeYoung and Gilbert’s book: the starting point of the church’s mission and the “end of the end of the story”. Even though, the subject of the Mission of the Church is profoundly deep and has enormous applications, it seems that both the essence of the mission (its starting point), and the ultimate goal of the mission, (its ending point), are extremely vital to the entire paradigm of the church’s mission.

Every culture is corrupted by sin. At the same time, the gospel of Jesus Christ is powerful: Societies can be transformed.” As a result, the missional model can be suitable to the congregation, if it is learned and the congregation teaches the importance or significance of the missional model. Likewise, attractional model is fitting as well, depending upon the hunger and thirst a person may have about the truth of God demonstrated in others. In fact, a personal observation prefers both models to be the best, because both models can make an impact in the lives of the community. By the same token, both models will do well for the congregation, because it is the exaltation of Jesus Christ and God’s love for the world that make a difference in reaching God’s people. Trull and Carter, “One fact remains: the church is in the world and the world is also in the church. A community, therefore, can be for a minister both a threat and an opportunity.” In other word, programmatic should not overpower systematic, nevertheless a little of both can be of use to help minister to the congregation and the congregation to the

The book of Acts describes how Paul was ministering in Antioch with Barnabas, when he was directed by the Holy Spirit to be released from his Church duties. The Holy Spirit had another assignment for Paul, and that was to go and take the Gospel more widely. Some believe that this notion came from the Holy Spirit through fasting and prayer. Paul began his first missionary in the town of Antioch. Throughout Paul’s first missionary journey he was accompanied by Barnabas and Barnabas cousin John Mark.

Missionary expansion throughout the centuries has taken a hard, often violent road. The expansion of Christianity begins with the adherents of Jesus Christ and ended with the premature demise of many of the disciples. In the centuries following the disciples, many missionaries were faced with percussion and death as the gospel was proclaimed. As missionary expansion occurs throughout the centuries, often times facing trial and difficulty, the question comes up; is the capital cost of missionary expansion worth the monetary value? This paper will highlight many trials that have been faced by three missionaries in particular and explain often by the words of these missionaries why the enormous cost of missionary expansion is worth the cost. The thesis of this paper is: everyone is called to preach the gospel; the calling of the missionary is called to live by faith even when facing difficulty.