What is a Missionary?

Wordnet says: “someone sent on a mission–especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country”

Wikipedia says: “Christian missionary can be defined as “one who is sent to witness across cultures.”

I say that a missionary is anyone who is on a mission. Someone can be a mission for good or evil. A mission could be fruitful or pointless. A mission can be a waste of time or profitable venture.

I also think that everyone is a missionary. Most definitions of missionaries revolve around the spreading of religious or spiritual beliefs, but really doesn’t everything you do say something about what you believe. And doesn’t what you believe say something about who you are? Since who you are effects what you do, and what you do has effect on everyone you come in contact with, doesn’t that mean that everyone is a missionary to their beliefs and who they are? You don’t have to say anything to spread a message, an idea or an attitude, all you have to do is be there.

Agreed? Good! Then here is the question:

What is your Mission? What do your thoughts, words and actions say about you and the mission that you are on?  Is the life you live something that could be called a mission?

It is my belief that all who are reading this, not only want their lives to be a mission, but a mission that resonates and draws others into that same mission.  You want to live your lives “So That” others will see your mission and want to come along as opposed to lives of “So What” and insignificance.

Our mission, if we choose to accept it, is to live a life of significance, to be missionaries to that which we hold dear and valuable.