Faith Tabernacle Church Magazine October 2013 | Page 3

Go Into All The World
Pastor Paul Khosla

One of the many great qualities of Faith Tabernacle Church is that this is a missional
community, one that not only reaches out but goes out and is apart of the
community.
In doing so we fulfill Jesus Christ’s commands from Mark 16:15:
Mark 16:15 And then he told them, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News
to everyone. 1
There is something about ‘all the world’ that is important for us to pick up on.
Certainly Christ was speaking of reaching every part of our world in the geographic
sense. That is happening more and more in our time.
However, I believe there is a message here for us on a personal level that our
‘World’ is also the place where we do life on a daily basis. For example, our
community, our workplace and our family would be parts of the immediate world you
and I live in, reaching different parts of our community.
Consider Alan Hirsch’s words, writing in Christianity Today.
“A missional theology is not content with mission being a church-based work.
Rather, it applies to the whole life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent
of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every
sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.”
The ideas of every ‘sphere of life’, and ‘non-Christian culture’ are not necessarily
comfortable ideas for us. This is because they challenge you and me to resist the
tendency to compartmentalize our Christianity based on what sphere of life we
happen to be engaged in.
However Christ’s words are clear: ‘GO into ALL the world...’
Responding to this command requires a multifaceted, dynamic approach to mission.
What is so exciting to me, and what we all should be thankful for is that is what our
local church is endeavoring to do. There are many ministries from our church that
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Tyndale House Publishers. (2007). Holy Bible: New Living Translation (3rd
ed.). Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers.

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