Resolve to Go

*Resolve to Go*

"But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you:
and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and
in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." Acts 1:8

The world is shrinking. In Biblical times, to travel twenty to twenty
miles would be a whole days journey. By the nineteenth century, it took
missionaries weeks to travel from England or America to reach a foreign
land. Today, via radio waves or a computer, we can be active participants
in a missionary endeavour a half a world away.

The distinction between evangelism that is domestic or local and missions
that are foreign or not local is still helpful but not as relevant in our
day and age. Today, there is no reason for every Christian not to be
involved in both domestic and foreign missions to some degree. God may not
call us to physically travel to a foreign country to do evangelism, but we
can "go" in other ways. We can learn about the country and its people
groups, scan the news feeds to stay informed, find Christian organizations
that are in those lands, and then give and pray with a focused intensity to
see souls brought into God's kingdom. Information and distance are o
longer barriers to involvement.

The Internet - and other tools and technologies - provides more information
than we can ever use, and puts us in touch with another part of the world
that we otherwise wouldn't know even exists. We can see and sense the
plight, persecution, problems and predicaments that are happening
everywhere in the world in real time, which should prick our hearts to
action that previously wouldn't have been available for the followers of
Christ. Like no other time in history, we should be resolving to become a
world Christian - one who is vitally involved in reaching the world Christ
died to save.

*The Spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions, and the nearer we get to
Him the more intensely missionary we become. (Henry Martyn)*