Why Missions?

This is like asking, why spread the gospel?

Mark 13:10 says that "And the gospel must first be preached to all nations. " Before the end of ages, before the second coming of Christ, before the here and now that we see, the suffering and the discontent, sadness and violence will end.

Bible talks about a definite end to the world as we know it and the beginning of an eternal bliss, the beginning of heaven.

What is heaven? It is hard to give a definite answer, but the answer I give myself is "any place where God is". Heaven started for me from the day I met Christ, for since then, he's been here with me. But life here is filled with trial after trial, temptation after temptation where we forget heaven and yearn to find it again. And so we wait for the eternal heaven, a new world where there is no suffering, discontent, sadness, violence...

Ask yourself and anyone else in the earth, ask them if they are truly happy.

Missions is spreading the gospel by means of going out into the community and serving the people, and thus sharing God's love.

And whether this community is your own neighborhood or a country 3000 miles away, depends on God's calling.