What Is Your Mission Field?

What is a mission?

Is it a foreign mission? Work in the church? Spreading the Gospel in whatever circles God places you?

All of the above?

I've been thinking a lot about life missions and people living in their little bubbles lately. I feel like a lot of Christians get stuck in their little bubble of their family and local church and never see the big picture. I feel like a lot of Christians get the idea that a missionary is someone who goes to a third world country to spread the Gospel and miss that we should all be missionaries in our circles of influence.

The world is bigger than our little bubble. American culture is bigger than our own households and local churches. And as we sit in our little bubbles, the enemy is taking ground.

The enemy has gotten into our government and perverted it from the intent of the founding, so that it no longer protects and defends what is good and right, but instead protects and defends sin.

The enemy has gotten into education, teaching children false things as truth from evolution to the LGBT agenda...and even many "Christian" institutions teach unbiblical worldviews.

The enemy has gotten into entertainment, changing from the common themes of Christianity in many classics (children's ones, anyway) to an onslaught of liberal agenda.

The enemy has destroyed the family and even basic tenets of biology such as gender.

Even the American church in general has let the enemy come in and divide us as many accept the liberal, sinful agenda that is pushed so hard today.

And we as Christians just sit in our little bubbles and let the enemy win.

We should fight. No, it's not going to be over until Jesus comes back. No, this world isn't ever going to be perfect. But does that give us license to stop fighting? Does that give us license to sit back in our little bubbles and just let the enemy win?

I don't think so. I don't want to face Jesus one day and say, "Well, I knew You were going to come back, so I just sat at home and waited." I want to be able to say, "I fought for You until the end."

I can't do it all. No one can do it all. That's why we all have our part of the wall to build. We all have the area of culture where we have gifts and interests and opportunities, and we have to use it to fight.

My family has been called into the political arena where we work to put Christians into office who will fight the evil in the government, doing their best to take down the bad laws and protect righteousness. How would it be if the government was full of Christians who sought to serve God in that office like William Wilberforce?

A dad at my church is using his position as a public school band director to try to start something like FCA for band. How would it be if there were more Christians in the schools willing to reach the children with the truth?

I've been gifted in writing, and I do my best to write good quality stories that point people towards God and the Bible. How would it be if entertainment was filled with Christians who created quality books, movies, and music that pointed people to God instead of filling their heads with normalized sin?

How would it be if the mainstream media promoted good and right things rather than promoting sin and stirring up people to riots?

How many more people could we reach with the Gospel if we stepped outside our little bubbles and used the gifts and opportunities God gave us for His Kingdom? How much more mission work could we do if we viewed our talents and interests as mission work rather than hobbies? How much more of a good and faithful servant would we be if we stopped sitting at home focused on our own personal lives and got out there into the culture being salt and light?

This fight is bigger than ourselves. It's bigger than our bubbles.

And I'm going to fight till the end.