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10 Ways To Focus On The Great Commission This Year

12/30/2019

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As the new year approaches we all have opportunities for new beginnings.  It’s a time of both reflection and of setting goals, and as we look ahead, we at E2E would like to offer 10 ways that you can invest more focus on the great commission in 2020. 

1. Start The Year In The Word 
If you have not yet, we’d encourage you to find some time in the coming days to work through the Father’s Heart Bible study.  It will help you to discover the desires of God for the nations. N.T. Wright reminds us that, "Mission is not something added on to 'biblical theology.'...The story of Scripture, focused in the Gospel events concerning Jesus, is about mission from start to finish."  Here are a few other studies and resources that will help you immerse yourself in God’s word to begin the new year:
  • Completing the Great Commission Bible Reading Plan 
  • Get a Vision for the Unreached Bible Reading Plan
  • Discover Your Role in God’s Mission Bible Reading Plan
  • Immerse Yourself in the Word of God (article with resources) 
 
2. Start The Year In Prayer
Prayer is the foundation of every move of God.  When we pray, God begins to shape our hearts toward those things that we are praying for and so if you want your heart to grow in its commitment to the great commission, to the mission of God, then prayer is one way to do that.  Here are a number of resources that will help you pray more for the nations and God’s mission:
  • Operation World Daily Emails
  • 30 Days Prayer Guides (Islam, Hindu, Buddhist)
  • 30 Days of Prayer for Sioux Falls Muslims (email series)
  • Prayercast

3. Subscribe to a Podcast
Listening to interviews, missiologists, on the ground practitioners and prayer warriors on podcasts is an easy way to fuel your missions focus.   Subscribing to a podcast or two ensures a regular dose of great commission inspiration.
  • 7 Podcasts to Fuel Your Missions Fire

4. Eat Out with Friends
One simple way to both enjoy time with friends or family and inspire a heart for the great commission is to eat out at ethnic restaurants.  Not Taco Bell or Panda Express but a restaurant owned and operated by an immigrant family.  
  • Search for “ethnic restaurants” in Google Maps.
  • Salatomatic (search for Muslim owned restaurants)  
 
5. Watch a Movie
Movies are a great way to spend time with friends and family and can also be a great tool for inspiring and motivating people towards a great commission focused lifestyle.  Watch one of these movies at home or gather a group from your church for a movie night.
  • Better Friends than Mountains
  • Sheep Among Wolves II
  • End of the  Spear
  • The Insanity of God
  • Helpful Youtube Channels

6. Read a Good Missions Book
Books are a great way to dive into the story of God’s mission to redeem the lost to himself.  They are great gifts as well and so make sure you are both reading and passing along books to others.  Here are a few lists of books to get you started:
  • Missionary Biographies
  • Missions Books
  • Cross Cultural Ministry Books
  • Movement Books

7. Buy a World Map
Visual reminders of the world that God created and that we live in help us remember to pray for the unreached.  Consider buying a world map to help keep you focused and inspired. Here are a few creative ideas:
  • World Map Shower Curtain
  • World Map Wall Mural
  • Giant Inflatable Globe Beach Ball
  • World Map Coffee Cup

8. Write an Encouraging Letter to a Missionary
As someone who lived cross culturally, there is little that brings more encouragement than a hand written letter from a friend or supporter.  Do you support a missionary? Get their mailing address and send them a letter in the mail.  

9. Give a Beginning of the Year Gift rather than an End of the Year Gift
Many end the year with a little extra end of the year financial gift to missionaries or mission agencies and that is amazing and super helpful for those raising full time support.  But what would it look like if you started your year by giving an extra financial gift of blessing. It seems it might focus the trajectory of your heart and your year! And it would be a huge blessing to the missionaries you support.

10. Commit to serving Locally, Nationally and Globally
Most mission trips - whether they be local, national or international trips - take a fair amount of planning and preparation.  Commit now to taking a trip this year! Here are a few organizations and trips worth considering:
  • Everywhere To Everywhere
  • Global Gates
  • Sahara Challenge and Crescent Project Short Term Trips
  • SOAR, ACTION or TREK with Multiply

As with any endeavor - if we want to grow - we have to invest.  We have to invest time, energy, effort, thought and often, finances and when we do we find ourselves becoming the thing we wish to become.  It is no different with developing a life shaped by and living for the great commission.

​Take steps today to shape your life around the fulfillment of the great commission!  
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Chris Brittain link
1/2/2020 04:47:12 am

thanks for the great effort!

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Aaron link
1/2/2020 09:59:47 am

Thanks Chris. I'm glad you found this helpful.

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