We’ve been talking about missions giving and support at Central Assembly of God for the past few weeks. One question has led our discussion; Why Missions?
Our perspective on something entails how we look at a particular object, our angle. After Jesus had his encounter with the women at the well (John 4:1-26) he speaks to his disciples about their perspective of the world around them (John 4:27-38).
He challenges them to view the world, that is, the people around them, not from their (the disciples) perspective, but from God’s perspective. Our perspective, how we view people, situations, etc, comes naturally. Our perspective seems right, because it’s how we are viewing things. God sees more and He calls us to see more too.
We all need to be challenged with the perspective we view people from. Sometimes we simply believe all we need to do is change our perception of an individual – but our perceptions can’t really change until we seem them differently.
We have taken this approach to missions and the world around us. We want to see the world differently. Not through our lenses, but through Gods’. Here is a video that we created to challenge our perspective on the world and people around us.
The fact of the matter is that we all need to have our perspective challenged and changed by God’s view about so many things, not simply mission, but missions is a good start.
How is God challenging your perspective?
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