It’s easy for a church to lose sight of missions.
With preaching, planning and managing the Sunday service, orchestrating small groups, facilitating childcare, and putting on the occasional church event, pastors are often forced to give missions whatever scraps of time and energy they have left over.
But missions deserves to be one of the core ministries receiving the firstfruits of the church’s attention—because it is at the heart of the gospel. It is, after all, part of Christ’s great commission to the church:
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