What is missions?

For many the answer is:
Do missionary work. Because we have to do missions.

How do missions?
Going, praying and helping. Perhaps this is the maximum response that the majority of the public here can give about missions. Well, we need to address this deficiência.Pois Brazil today is treated as a vast storehouse of missions, and the Brazilian church has to know not only why, but part disso.Comecemos the beginning.

Where does the word missions?
MISSION - It is a duty to perform; task; commitment. That's mission. Missions is the plural of the mission. Then, we deduce that missions are many duties to perform, many documents, many targets to be achieved.

What is the mission that God gave the church?
Mt.28.19: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you." Well, that's the mission. Make disciples. Disciples of whom? Jesus. Who is Jesus? John 14:8 Philip said to him: Lord, show us the Father, and that in basta.9 Jesus said to him: so long I'm with you, and still do not know me, Philip? Who has seen me has seen the Father how sayest thou, Show us the Father? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say, not of myself: but the Father who dwells in me, he makes his obras.11 Believe me I am in the Father and the Father is in me to believe less because of that same obras.Temos make disciples of God who has shown who he is and how He is in the person of Jesus Christ! Jesus is God encarnado.João 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten of Pai.18 Nobody has ever seen God. The only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he gave conhecer.Acho important to make clear and underlined the "content" of the mission, the essence and the cause of its existence. The disciples of Jesus Christ and are not ours, or any board.


The missions are all ways (each mission) used to achieve the mission. Missions are the means we use to make disciples of Jesus! Many believe that mission only began to be practiced from that command of Christ. But that is not how the bible in order to do ensina.A missions begins in Genesis, which is the first book of chapters Bíblia.Os 12:1-3; 18.17-18; 22:18; 28.14 - show us all that God will doing since then is to prepare a people who will be official in the land, a people who were processing agent, agent blessings - Psalm 67. Back in Acts 3:25 says "Ye are the sons of the prophets and the covenant God made with your fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall be blessed all the families of the earth." Peter in his speech that recalls the temple to the people God.and 3.8Ora of Galatians, Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall be blessed all nações.Paulo cites the same order reminding the church of your dever.Mas, when the church completed its roughly three hundred years old, counting from Jesus, who officiated at the church in the vision that the Father had since the time of Abraham. This church begins to forget their mission, and begins to stop practicing the means to accomplish this mission, no longer do missions, and passes over a thousand years deploying the kingdom of man on earth, doing missions in support of human power and not for the sake of human salvation. And even after retirement, where the so-called Protestants emerged, the mandate to be a blessing to all families of the earth was suppressed for 250 years. Until a young man of great faith and incredible ability to withstand the trials came on the scene. Appears only in the eighteenth century a man named William Carey, who suffered greatly because he took the mission of making disciples of Jesus, being a blessing to all the families of the earth sério.Certo day had the opportunity to speak to a group of pastors on missions to achieve the mission of the church and challenged them to fulfill the great commission. And they replied: "When God decides to win the heathen, He will do it without your help or ours." As it was useless to speak, William wrote a booklet talking about "The duty of Christians to employ means for converting the heathen." This booklet Moved all. And Carey initiating the first period of Protestant missions. India was to do missions, and from it the mission agencies began to emerge to send missionaries to nações.Mas Carey brought in some ways to accomplish the mission of making disciples of Christ being a blessing to the families of the earth. What I mean is that those who think mission boils down to go, pray, donate and send you're mistaken. Go is a means to accomplish the mission, giving is a means to accomplish the mission, and send it is a means to accomplish the mission, and when we do these things as a church, we are fulfilling some means to achieve the mission of making disciples of Jesus, we are not doing more missions. We can not keep kidding ourselves living with the mutilation that the history of the church has the mandate of God to his people, thinking that preparing a missionary, and sending this mission by maintaining this mission we're doing missions, because we are not! We're just doing a small part delas.Jesus Christ said: "As you sent me to the world, I have sent them to the world." Jo.17.18O text of Luke 4.17-21 talks about that God sent Jesus to the world. And it is Christ himself who confirma.Foi delivered unto him the book of Isaiah, and opening it he found the place where it was written: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor, sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty the oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of Senhor.E closing the book, returned to the attendant and sat down, and eyes all in the synagogue were fastened on nele.Então began to tell them, 'Today this scripture is fulfilled in your ears.
"As you sent me to the world, I have sent them to the world."

So what do missions?
Doing missions is to do everything that Jesus Christ fez.Será that only Jesus called his disciples, told them some parables, told them they would some difficulties in the field, sent and kept them? No. Jesus lived the mission given by the Father, being a blessing to everyone, making disciples, men and women who have been a blessing to todos.Assim as you sent me I send you.
He sends us to do what he did.

What Jesus Christ did?
1 - It took some good news to the poor - Lk. 9. 10-17. Mt 15:29
2 - restored the brokenhearted - Lc.7.37, 38, 44-50; Jo.11.2 (Maria recovered)
3 - He proclaimed liberty to the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners - Mc.7.25-29; Jô.8.31-36
4 - proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord - Lc.4.18; Jo.10.10; I am the door: I am the good shepherd: I am the light of the world I am the truth, the path and the life I am the resurrection and life.
5-proclaimed the day of vengeance of our God - Mt 25. 31-46
6 - consoled all sad - 5 Mt. 1-12; Jo.11.19-26, 31-35

Missions is all we do to fulfill the mission of saving humanity, this mission was that of Christ, continues through us. We were commissioned by him to continue what he started. He is the door, but we have to show it. He fulfilled his mission to die in place of the sinner, but we have to announce this good news to the sinner.
William Carey missions as Jesus did, not only because he went to India (41 years abroad, translated the scriptures into more than thirty languages, was a professor of geography and cobbler) or because he encouraged others to pray, to send and donate as he did, but because when he arrived there he identified himself with the Indians, he worried about his physical and spiritual condition!

In Romans 10: 8-15 says:
8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart: that is the word of faith which we preach;
9 That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
12 For there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same is Lord over all is rich to all who call upon him.
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things.

Understanding what to do missions, do missions in any of his proposal, going, giving, praying, sending, but Christ living in church to church, the church, by the missionaries, and all around us. That is being a blessing to all families of the earth and make disciples of all nations.