point for our team and helped us stay focused and motivated during challenging times. We knew that every effort we made was contributing to strengthening and encouraging faith-based leaders, and that gave us a sense of fulfillment and purpose.
personal, to figure out what we can learn from his approach that will equip us to understand the specific missions he’ s given each of us. Let’ s notice together the way Jesus defined his mission:
who he declared it to,
Jesus could have come to earth to overthrow the Roman government and reestablish the Jewish people into power. He could have spent all his time teaching how he fulfilled the Old Testament Scriptures. Or he could have chosen to stay in Jerusalem with the religious leaders connected to the Temple. Instead Jesus had one simple focus: seeking and saving the lost.
Jesus’ mission is my mission and your mission, too— the mission of every person who follows him. But I want us to get more when he decided to disclose his mission, and
what words he used to describe the mission that changed all our lives.
Luke’ s Gospel highlights the many ways Jesus proved himself to be God, and it’ s obvious to anyone who spends time reading that Gospel that Luke organized the stories to help us all arrive at the same conclusion: Jesus was on a mission to seek and save the lost. Luke wrote as much in Luke 19:10, where Jesus speaks to a man named Zacchaeus.
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