Living Missionally

What is the difference between “doing missions” and “living the kingdom of God”? I think “doing missions” is like making it a task just needing to be done; putting in the time and labor just to finish a project, not necessarily investing into something. When you finish the job you are done for the day, week, or month. “Living the kingdom of God” would be the complete opposite in the sense that you are continuously trying to do work for the kingdom. This isn’t just a job to complete but more so a lifestyle or actually living out missions.

The Western world, especially in churches that I’ve known, has become so focused on this life of “doing missions” instead of actually living a missional life. This chapter talks about how the west prays for revivals continuously and revivals have come, just not to the west but everywhere else in the world. If the west would stop doing missions and start living missionally through their everyday life—if we would stop worrying about sitting back and praying but actually take action through our prayers then things might change.