0767 Missionary Mindset

MISSIONARY MINDSET

John 21:15

It’s okay for you to ask God questions, and it should also be okay for God to ask you questions!

3294 questions in the Bible. “Where are you?” “Who touched Me?”

Size of your destiny is connected with the quality of your questions. Your questions reveal your heart. God asked Job 77 questions.

Jesus asked this question of the one who has seen the love demonstrated toward him.

1. LOVE OF GOD - Your love for God begins with knowledge of His love for you! (1 John 4:10)

The Greek language has 4 words for love:

1. Agape - charitable love.

2. Storge - family love.

3. Philia - love between friends.

4. Eros - sexual love.

God has chosen to deal with us through love, not law

Pentecost is celebration of God’s law. 50 days after Passover. 3,000 died = LAW.

God is love, not power! Faith rests in God’s willingness more than His ability!

Love is the language that the blind can see and deaf can hear.

I left a mark on your life Peter. Remember the nets.

You left a mark on my body Peter. See the scars.

2. LOVE FOR GOD

Do you love (agape) me? I “phileo" you (twice) Then Jesus asked do you “phileo” me? Peter said yes. He did not have that love for Jesus yet. Give God the love you have, He will give you the love you don’t (Later Peter wrote about agape love 8 times in his writings - God gave him that love)

God will multiply the love you give, not the love you wish you give!

3. LOVE FROM GOD

Jesus demonstrated His love for us by dying for us, we demonstrate our love for Him by living for Him. Living for Jesus is embracing missional mindset, not just avoiding moral pitfalls. At best it’s shallow, at worse it’s selfish. “If you aim at impossible you get maximum. If you aim at maximum you get minimum. If you aim at minimum you get nothing.”

Ministry to Jesus is about mission (Missionary is mindset, not method, not place)

Money for the mission (Money are either idol or instrument. Test yo before bless you) Marriage is to advance mission (Kids to be generals and missionaries, but successful)

Miracles have a mission (Miracles are signs. Jesus rebuked cities)

Find the lost. Feed the found.

- We can’t live without God no longer than gold fish can live without water - Sin takes us from presence of God - Praying alone for the lost is not going to get them rescued

*About the same time that you can live with your head under water

*Dead can't find their way to Jesus