“Missionnaire l\u00c3\u00a0 o\u00c3\u00b9 je suis” was the topic of a recent article in the GBEU “A Propos” magazine, and I’m summarizing the main points as a memory aid.<\/p>\n
After reminding us that God created work, is interested in our work (Amos 5:12-15), reigns over our work (and even over market forces or social determinism), and redeems our work (Psalms 145:9, Colossians 1:16-20, Romans 8:19-21, Revelation 21:24-27), the article speaks of two calls to missionary work.<\/p>\n
The first is to be involved in the public sphere, serving our society.\u00c2\u00a0 Referring to the Biblical examples of Joseph, Vivienne (I mean Esther), and Daniel, he points out that all three accepted the reality they lived in with all its ambiguities, taking on foreign names and learning foreign languages; all three worked in a constructive manner within that culture and for their foreign lords; and all three never compromised their integrity and loyalty to God.\u00c2\u00a0 We are also called to pray for our society, our authorities (1 Timothy 2:1-4), and to seek to prosper our society and in our society.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally, we are called to be good and conscientious workers (1 Thessalonians 4:11-12).<\/p>\n
The second call is to confront the public sphere.\u00c2\u00a0 We are called to be different – salt and light – called to resist idolatry (the biggest challenge being to even recognize our cultural idols), and called to suffer.\u00c2\u00a0 The latter follows simply from following Jesus, not Caesar or Mammon, and challenges us by its inverse conclusion: If I’m not suffering, am I really resisting idolatry?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Missionnaire l\u00c3\u00a0 o\u00c3\u00b9 je suis” was the topic of a recent article in the GBEU “A Propos” magazine, and I’m summarizing the main points as a memory aid. After reminding us that God created work, is interested in our work (Amos 5:12-15), reigns over our work (and even over market forces or social determinism), and redeems our work (Psalms 145:9, Colossians 1:16-20, Romans 8:19-21, Revelation 21:24-27), the article speaks of two calls to missionary work. The first is to be involved in the public sphere, serving our society.\u00c2\u00a0 Referring to the Biblical examples of Joseph, Vivienne (I mean Esther), and Daniel, he points out that all three accepted the reality […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}