It is easy to think of missions as doing the work of crossing cultures and sharing the gospel with people, that our working is what missions and ministry are all about.
Missions (and ministry) is a synergistic work of the Lord and His people. As part of the Commission, God is actively at work bringing people into relationship with Himself all over the world. And amazingly, He invites us into that work as well. As much as God is committed to His work of redemption, He has chosen not to do this work without us, engaging us as part of His redemptive plan. We share both the responsibility and a joy of getting to be a part of this process.
It’s easy to forget, with all the work to be done, that missions (and ministry) is really not about what we do, as Dr. Tennant said. Missions is instead about what God is doing. We simply get to enter into that work. And as Henry Blackaby describes in his study, Experiencing God, our responsibility is to watch and see where God is working and join with Him in it.
It is so important that we take the time to wait, watch, and listen for the movement of the Holy Spirit in the world.
Recently, God has been showing me a great deal about where He has been moving in the world related to Digital Missions. Here are a few of our observations:
1. Facebook announced that they now have 2B monthly active users. That is about 27% of the world’s population using a single website to connect with others all across the globe.
2. More than 50% of the world now use the internet. Whether accessing it through hardwire connections at home, local cafe wifi-hotspots, or through their mobile devices, more people are coming “online” each and every day.
Along those same lines, amazing work is underway to enable more high-speed internet access all across the globe by huge tech companies like Facebook and Google. Both of these companies have projects to increase high-speed internet access to people all across the globe (Facebook: Aquila, Alphabet: Project Loon).
Why do all of these statistics and stories about technology and internet access matter?
Historically, if we wanted to cross cultures to tell people about Jesus, there were really only two ways to do it: reach out to your local community to find people who have migrated from another country/background, or travel to another country yourself. The Lord has already been using both of these methods in significant ways for the past few hundred years. But now, with these advancements and the adoption of these technologies globally, a new opportunity presents itself to the church. If you paid close attention to it, you might have even noticed a biblical name/parallel in one of the internet projects (more on that later).
Never in the history of the world has there been the capability to connect and engage with so many people through a single medium. As we look at these global cultural shifts through a missional lens, it would appear that God has been allowing these transitions to occur for a very important reason: to facilitate the fulfillment of the great commission by flattening the world.
- How could and should we steward these new opportunities to reach the world for Him?
- How do we facilitate evangelism, discipleship, multiplication, and church planting in a digital era?
- What could constitute a digital church?
These and many more are all questions that come to mind as we ponder the things that God has already been doing in the world, His Commission, and how we can join Him in that work.
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