Make An Impact: Not Just Your Pastor's Job

Responsibility. This is a huge word that most people don't like. They dread this word. They substitute other words for this word. They run from this word: Responsibility.


Myth: It is your pastor's, or youth pastor's, responsibility to reach your lost family or friends.

This lie has crept into the church and settled among believers. The responsibility of the church, true believers, has been shifted to the leadership of the church. This is dangerous, and unhealthy. It is unbiblical, and ineffective. The church is not our mission field. The church is to be a training center for missionaries. Are you taking the responsibility to reach your lost friends with Christ? Or, are you spiritually irresponsible with the grace that God has given YOU?

A big part of this is the size of the impact that will be made. Your pastor does not have the same influence among your friends that you do. They don't know your pastor like they know you. Your pastor probably doesn't work alongside them like you do. Your pastor probably doesn't have the same opportunity to reach them as you do. God gave you the friends that He did so that you, an insider, could take the love of Christ inside of your little circle to them. That is where our responsibility as friends and family members lies. There are huge opportunities for you to make an impact for the Kingdom of God. It starts with those closest to you.


PASTOR: Train your people to be missionaries.

CHURCH: Don't put the responsibility of sharing Jesus with those closest to you on someone else. Do you love them? Share Jesus with them.

How serious do you take Jesus, and how much do you love those around you?