The missional church sounds great. This church will take the initiative and go and reach all peoples as commanded by God. The video by Michael Frost even called Christians to make sure they
were reaching the model car racers. When I heard that, I got excited. I was pumped that somebody was telling Christians to reach out to even the smaller groups to whom they feel called to proclaim Jesus. I was ready to get a specific calling from God for a specific people group to whom I could begin to minister. Now I know that this may seem like a romanticized response but this is where my heart is at anyways. I think the most important calling for Christians is to go to all people and proclaim the word. And here was Michael Frost saying that even model car racers are a people group that needs to hear the word. Then I could surely find a people group right now to whom I could start proclaiming.

                My next response was one of nervousness and fear. This happened because I started to think about all the different groups that would need to be reached if the model car racers count as their own group. Right now there are thousands of people groups. But breaking both the reached and unreached peoples down into much smaller, specific sub-groups, I thought there must still be millions of groups that need to be reached. It would be nearly impossible to reach this many people. Many smaller groups would be left out or left until later while the larger groups were reached. This means that there would still be many groups that would not have the joy of being children of God. It didn’t seem to solve anything.

                And yet I still think that the way advocated by Michael Frost and many others has to happen. So what will make it work then? In short, numbers. Everybody needs to be called into the mission of God. Everybody needs to proclaim God’s word to whomever they feel called to do so. It can’t be a few that are sent by many; it must be all believers going out into all the world and fulfilling the Great Commission. Only then will the church be able to work toward accomplishing the mission God has set out for his people.

 

– Jeremiah