Missionary Mindset
What does it mean to have a missionary mindset? Is that what you have when you are committed to go to a foreign land like Africa or South America or California? Is it perhaps a vague notion of wanting to communicate the gospel to people?
A missionary mindset is found in people who deeply love God and delight in him and want to share that delight with others. When your desire is to help people move from the darkness into the light, showing them the hope and satisfaction and joy and mercy and forgiveness and love of Jesus Christ, you are taking on the mind of a missionary.
Too often we compartmentalize our lives. “Well, now it’s time for me to think like a cook, or like a driver, or like a parent or grandparent, or like a Christian.” For the Christian, all of life should be about service to God. That means having an ongoing commitment to do and desire what God calls us to do and desire, including a desire to spread the gospel to all people.
You do not have to go away to exercise a missionary mindset. Most missions is best done at home as faithful believers share the gospel among their friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, and strangers on the street. Ask God to grow in you a missionary mindset wherever you go, whatever you do.