Missional Mindset and Leadership #2
Our God is a missional God who works. Jesus reminds us that the Father is always at work and that He too is working (see John 5:17). Because we are created in His image, we too are to have a missional mindset that sets a context for our life and leadership.
Jesus was repeatedly stating that He was sent by His Father to accomplish a mission or task. Below are some of the passages where Jesus talks about being sent by His Father.
John 4:34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
John 5:23-24 …that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him. “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.
John 5:36 “I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing—testify that the Father has sent me.
John 6:38-39 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.
John 7:16 Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me.
John 8:29 The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him.”
John 8:42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me.
John 9:4 As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
John 17:3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
John 17:8 For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.
John 17:18 As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.
John 20:21 Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”
Are you clear on your purpose or mission? Are you engaged in carrying out your God-given mission?
Developing Kingdom Leaders - Tom Yeakley 