John Piper probed our minds with this truth that missions exists because worship does not. I understand the truth but I think it needs clarifying. Man does worship. However, the glory often worshiped is not God’s glory. In Romans 1:23 Paul tells us that man “exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man”. Verse 25 tells us that man “exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator”.
Every time we break the first command by making other things as more significant than God we live out the foolishness of this text. God longs to be worshiped. He knows that worship is the highest call His creation can respond to. We are at our best when we adore the king of kings and Lord of Lords. David tells us that praise is becoming and that God inhabits the praises of His people.
Missions is telling others about how to get connected to this awesome God! It brings liberty to people who are in bondage to false gods both here and abroad. That Testimony is not something that is shared only when we cross the ocean but even when we cross the street. David expresses God’s heart in Psalms 86:9, “All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord and shall glorify your name”.
In Revelation John sees the results of centuries of the church being on mission when he declares; “After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with loud voice, Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the lamb” Revelation 7:9-10
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