Missionary Mindset

Can you remember what it was like to not believe in God? Can you recall a time when you did not have a clue who Jesus really was? How about the last time you did not have the faintest stirring to go to church on a Sunday and not have a trace of guilt about that?! Welcome to the majority of people in Britain today.
It is difficult to think like people different to us yet it is very necessary if we are to bring Good News to them. Current culture will not bring many people through the front doors of church. Yet we hold the answers to love, forgiveness, significance and truth. So if people will not naturally come to us, it simply means we have to go to them.
What is required is a renewed mindset. We have to become like Jesus, like the first apostles and like Paul. We need to see ourselves primarily as missionaries rather than pastors, as people going rather than waiting for arrivals. This is a hard pill for the 21st century church but it will make a difference to the world.

1 Corinthians 9, Mark 1