You know how it starts. He's in a remote location. Where he can't possibly be found. Except he is. The sleek all-black (because sleek comes in no other color) helicopter flies past and shoots a hissing canister his direction.
Out of this canister comes the techy-est pair of sunglasses known to man. He peers through them and processes information about a "bad guy" with a bad plan. The information comes to an end and you hear these words: "your mission should you choose to accept it" followed by a brief description of the mission. One part that has always disturbed me in the sunglass report is when his superior says “and, as always, should you or any member of your team be killed or captured, the agency will disavow any knowledge of your actions.”
Of course, he always accepts the mission. Otherwise that would be a really boring movie.
The point is: he has a choice to accept the mission.
We, too, have been given a mission. There was no sleek helicopter. No mission-giving, self-destructing sunglasses. But it was no less spectacular. 11 disciples on a mountain and 1 Resurrected Savior presenting a mission to “Save the World.”
So your mission should you choose to accept it is: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:”
It is my mission to “Save the World.” The world I live in. The people I meet. My family. Those that stop me in Target to ask if I’m Pentecostal. The diseased stranger that lays in the hospital room next to my loved one. The repairman that strikes up a conversation. The grieving mother in the waiting room. The co-worker that shares their heartache in the break room over Dr. Pepper and peanut butter crackers. The friend in class whose world was turned upside down by divorce.
In those moments I have a choice to ACCEPT the mission or to do everything EXCEPT the mission.
The mission doesn’t require me to give a Biblical dissertation of Oneness Theology. Nor does it expect me to harshly expose their sin. The mission starts with love. It starts with being what Christ would be and showing them the God-option. I begin my mission when I share God’s love.
So study your mission-manual (Bible) and be alert to those around you. Be an agent of God’s love. A soldier of mercy. And your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to save the world.
