The Church as a Missionary

Each individual believer as well as the Church as a whole is called to be a missionary to the world. This is kingdom living, following the Great Commission, following Matthew 25 to take care of the "the least of these," and becoming a Church in context with the mission of God. Therefore, I believe that doing missions sounds more temporary than living the kingdom of God. Doing missions is something we say here in our Western cultured church meaning to go for a period of time into the "mission field." But living the kingdom of God is really living a missional lifestyle, not for a period of time, but ever since we become part of the Church, and begin to multiply reaching the world everywhere we go. I have learned that a church was never meant to just fit into a local community, but that the local community is just the beginning point to reaching the world.