Activity or Vitality
April, 2021
“The Salt Life” is a cultural catch phrase which describes the lifestyle of enthusiasts who center their life’s interest and activities around the ocean. It is no duty for them to perform, but a desire to fulfill—and they do! From beach dwellers to ocean divers—they live out “The Salt Life!”
My life is “missions,” and it is not based on cultural happenings but in Christ’s heralding! Jesus said in Matthew 24:14, “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached [heralded forth] in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”
To live The Missions Life, one must be enamored with three other enthusiasms: Christ, Church, and prayer. The Christ Life is lived by that believer who has lost his own life in the Lordship of Christ. He takes up his cross daily that he should not henceforth live unto himself, but unto Him who died and rose again for him. He does not necessarily view quagmires as evil, but as essential things which happen “unto the furtherance of the gospel.” The Church Life, then, is that life which has lost itself in Christ while expressing its service in and through Christ’s body—the local church. Having been set by the Spirit in His body for activity, the believer emulates the life of Christ, exercises his spiritual gifting, and exhorts others to do the same. He fulfills his individual passion inseparable from Christ’s program in the church. The Prayer Life is what transforms the first two from mere activity to mature vitality. It breathes the breath o
f life into the slain that they may live. Otherwise, missionary activity is simply dry bone service with skin and sinews stretched over its frame. (Ez. 37:9)
The Mission Life is one which must describe the man on the front pew as well as the missionary on the front lines if biblical missions is to ever live again—and it can live again with the life breathing vitality of Christ, church, and prayer.
Thank you for praying for your missionaries and for the mission field!
Asking of Him (Ps. 2)
Rodney Myers
GFF General Director