Step 2: Build Relationship

Explore YOUR mission fields

Forming a vision that is both biblical and appropriate to your context involves identifying the unique contribution God is calling you to make to his mission. That starts with identifying the potential mission fields in which God has placed you. When Jesus sent out the disciples, he gave them his authority and told them which mission fields to go to and which were not their concern at that time (Matt. 10:1, 5-6).

IDENTIFY YOUR UNIQUE KINGDOM CONTRIBUTION

Sometimes the Great Commission will involve pioneering ministry and breaking new ground. In many places, however, there’s an existing patchwork of churches and gospel ministries and in these cases making a unique kingdom contribution means filling gaps, reaching unreached people groups or adding partnership ministries.

Strategic mission focuses on how God has equipped you and who he’s calling you to reach, recognizing that he’s also bringing growth through others. And so, driven not by ambition to build personal empires but by divine commission to build God’s eternal kingdom, we ask:
– Where can we focus resources to serve a currently unreached area or people group?
– What makes us more strategically placed than others to make the most of these particular gospel opportunities?
– What, therefore, is our unique kingdom contribution that others are not currently making?