Purpose + Focus = World Change

Jesus came to accomplish a very specific job, to seek and to save people like us, those who were lost. Jesus didn’t come to feed people or heal people. He did both because He cared about them, but when He took off (and I mean literally) there were a lot of hungry and sick people still here. Jesus came with a specific focus and He accomplished a specific purpose. 

Jesus left the Father, was born of a virgin, lived a perfect life, died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sin, rose from the grave to conquer death and then ascended back to the Father. He finished the job He came to do, and then He left. That was His focus. That was something that He and He alone could accomplish. 

Nobody could save the human race but Jesus. If He hadn’t bothered to passionately focus on His unique mission, then something really important would have never been accomplished and we would all still have to deal with the consequences of our sin. So it should not surprise us to discover that focus is the primary building block of His church’s mission, the strategy that Jesus brought to the formation of the church. 

God calls us all to be involved in very specific tasks (as indicated by our spiritual gifts), to get together with other like-minded believers at a very specific place (we call it a local church), so that we can better prepare to do life with a very specific group of people (we call them our oikos). That’s our world. That’s the world God wants to change, through us.

For Jesus, the Cross was a lifelong goal, the grave was a temporary home, and the Great Commission was a final request.

For us, it all adds up to this.

Are you in?