Pastor Sung Ki Ho, from Professionals for Global Missions, spoke during the recent Bible class conference held at Seattle Onnuri Church.
Pastor Ho preached five sermons on the theme, “Experience the Power of God,” and especially focused on the attitude and posture that God desires to see in Christians.
Specifically, he spoke on the “Diaspora Age, and the 4th Wave of Missions,” saying that as people worldwide are “being scattered all across the world, every person must be a missionary in the place that they are called, with the talents that they are most confident in.”
“Koreans living abroad all over the world need to realize that they are not simply ‘immigrants’ who left Korea in search for a better life, but that they are ‘diaspora,’ and the seeds of Christ that God has scattered in order to fulfill His desires for the world,” he added. “All of the 8 million Koreans who have been sent to 175 different countries all over the world must be mobilized for a missional life.”
“If every person in every church congregation realized their identity, we would see churches being built up in this Diaspora age. Around us there are who have never heard the gospel, and it is a calling that God has given us to share the gospel with them.”
“It used to be that those who received a calling to be a missionary would have to go overseas and far off places to share the gospel, but now, the mission field has come to us, and it’s all around us. Christianity’s strategy in missions must change, and churches and mission organizations all over the world must be awake to expand God’s kingdom,” emphasized Pastor Ho.
“For each church and mission field, every member should share the gospel and expand God’s kingdom using their gifts, knowledge, and talents, and using the sermons that pastors preach as their tool. Missions is no longer an exclusive duty of pastors, but the time has come that every person and the entire body of Christ must give themselves to missions.”
