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Intro
What does it mean for us to be a missional church?
The difficulty in answering that question lies in how loaded the term “missional” has actually become in American Evangelicalism.
For some people in our church, the word “missional” is an entirely new term.
They have never heard it, and are unfamiliar with how it works itself out in the life of a body of believers.
For others, the term is so overly used, that it doesn’t mean much of anything at all.
That anything and everything can be defined as missional but as one author says, “If everything is mission, nothing is mission.”
But it is crucial that we understand what it means for us to be a missional church because the mission of the church is foundational to its identity.
If a church fails to study God’s Word
accurately discern what its mission is,
or just as important actively live for that mission,
Then it will be unable to call itself a biblical church.
As we continue our study in Nehemiah by looking at , we are going to see what it means for us to be a missional people, that is, a people who live for the mission that Jesus has given us to do.
And as Nehemiah faithfully caries out the mission the Lord gave him to accomplish, he will show us an example of what it looks like for the people of God to faithfully carry out the mission of the church.
So what is the mission of the church?
One could make the argument that to understand the mission of the church that you don’t need to look any further than the Westminster Catechism which says we are called to glorify God and enjoy him forever.
But before we look at how we are to live on mission, we must first define what living on mission actually means.
Still others might argue that the mission of the church is to love God and love our neighbor because Jesus himself said these are the two greatest commandments.
At the fundamental level, the term mission implies two things:
Being sent
Being given a task.
So, when we ask, what is the mission of the church, we are asking, “What is the specific task or purpose the church is sent into the world to accomplish?”
In answering this question, we will see what it means to be a missional church because to live on mission is to live our lives in line with the purpose God has given us.
What Does It Mean to Live on Mission?
To live on mission is to live in line with the God given mission of the Church.
Nehemiah told us in 2:12 that God had placed it in his heart to lead God’s people rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
But the mission Nehemiah was sent to do was bigger than just a reconstruction project.
Nehemiah was sent to Jerusalem to help God’s people rebuild the walls so that they could once again be a holy nation.
To live according to God’s law and to be a light to the nations who were in darkness.
To proclaim to the world that God had not abandoned humanity in their sin against him, but that he was on a mission to save sinners through the promised Messiah.
The king-priest who would come and make atonement for sin and lead God’s people in faithfulness for all eternity.
So what does Nehemiah’s mission have to do with the church?
Our God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
The mission of God throughout the Old Testament is the same mission of God in the New.
Ever since the Fall where humanity sinned against God, God has been on a mission to save sinners and remove the effects of sin from his creation.
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