Gospel: Matthew 10: 1-7
How often do churches hire consultants to help create mission and vision statements, holding endless planning and crafting sessions, and spending untold resources! The process is laborious and it engages the time of countless people, time and resources that could have been spent engaged in the mission and vision Jesus already provided two millennia ago!
Jesus sends out his disciples, instructing them to proclaim the good news that God's kingdom is coming soon, a kingdom that will proclaim a jubilee where those in bondage are set free, debts are forgiven, and the land is restored. They are further instructed to go about healing people of all their infirmities and liberating them from all that possesses them in bondage.
If we are not about these things yet, if we are more about media and political empires, we still have the opportunity to get in on the original mission and vision statement of the Lord Jesus. Caring for the sick and imprisoned, those with addictions and depression, the lonely and lost...so many need the good news and the healing and liberation of the work of God's kingdom.
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