An Everyday Missionary in Babylon

January 24, 2016 Speaker: George Ross

Topic: A Call to Everyday Missions Scripture: Jeremiah 29:1– :14

An Everday Missionary in Babylon 
Jeremiah 29:1-14
George Ross, NAMB Missionary, NOLA

I. The background of the Letter. (1-3) 

II. The exhortation of the Letter. (4-7) 

God's 11 Imperatives for Gospel-Impact Where He Has Placed You:

1. Build houses. 
2. Live in them. 
3. Plant gardens. 
4. Eat the fruit. 
5. Take wives. 
6. Have kids. 
7. Take wives for your sons to marry. 
8. Give your daughters away in marriage. 
9. Multiply, have a bunch of kids and a big family. 
10. Seek the welfare of the city. 
11. Pray for the city. 

III. The Admontition of the Letter. (8-9) 
IV. The Hope of the Letter. (10-14) 

5 Imperatives for Embracing Your Purpose As An Everyday Missionary: 

Everyday missionaries are those who practice life on mission where God has placed them. 
-Life on Mission 

1) Repent from rebellion against God's sovereignty. 
It is impossible to be on mission with God if you are disattisfied and discontent with your life, location and purpose. 

"We spend much of our lives wishing we were someone else, living somewhere else, doing something else. God sovereignly knows who you are, where you are, and has given you a purpose for His glory." 

2) Resist the American Dream: It is impossible to be on mission with God if the most important thing in your life is the American dream. 

"Don't live for your kingdom, live for His Kingdom." 

3)Reject the outrage culture and cultivate an on-mission lifestyle. 

"Outrage doesn't manifest Christ-likeness and rarely produces converts." 

4) Renounce fear. Quit being paralyzed by your past and afraid of the present. 

"God's grace gives us freedom from our past and courage for the present." 

5) Respond to Your Comission: You have been comissioned to be an everyday missionary. 

"Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter." - Spurgeon.