It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the Earth (Isaiah 49:6)
Did Jesus Christ fail to provide a reasonable demonstration of ways to fulfill the great commission to his disciples at the last minute before ascending to heaven?
Consider, for a moment, how compassionately Jesus exploited the following encounters with Samaritans and Greeks to help His disciples think in cross-cultural terms.
In the Samaritan village where Jesus and His band were rejected, but He never gave up on His purpose to save lives and the story of the Greeks who would later be represented in the blessing after Jesus' crucifixion!
Jesus made it clear that everyone including the Turkana people, could enter that kingdom through the difficult, narrow gate of repentance and faith in God, a message appropriate to an 'all peoples' outlook, going beyond unimportant nationalistic expectations.
In Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. The mighty motive, 'then the end will come' will guide us. I don't know when the end will come. And yet I do know this; when the church has finished her task of evangelizing the world, Christ will come again. The word of God says it. Why did Christ not come in AD 500 or rather in AD 1000? Because the church had not yet finished her task of world evangelization. Is He coming soon? He is- if we, God's people, are obedient to the command of the Lord to take the gospel into all the Nations, Turkana being our Target nation. Do you like the Lord's appearing? Then you'll bend every effort to take the gospel into the land of Turkana, the good news of the kingdom. Satan is defeated and bound, death is conquered and sin is broken.
All authority is His, ' go ye, therefore '. When we've accomplished our mission, He'll return and establish His kingdom in glory. To us it's given not only to wait, but also to hasten the coming of the day of God, which is the mission of the gospel of the kingdom, and this is our mission.
How then shall Turkana people call on the one they have not believed in ? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? How beautiful are the feet of those who bring Good News!
Let's share God's plan for ages with the Turkana people, which gives life an eternal significance. The greatest effort you can make is obedience to the Lord ' go ye therefore.
Turkana Mission, Christ the hope of glory.
Written by Josephine Ngeloni.
