Repatriating Missions to the Local Church

History museums are starting to repatriate their precious artefacts. Often captured during colonial expansion, these artefacts have showcased the unique creativity of diverse cultures for the viewing pleasure of patrons and museumgoers for decades and centuries. Although well-meaning curators have preserved and honored these cultural items, even protecting them from wars and looters, they cannot ignore that they don’t belong there.
Similarly, global missions1 needs to be repatriated to the local church.

• Biblical Basis of Missions
  "The local church is the city on the hill, God’s temple, where he dwells on earth this side of eternity."
• When Missions Drift Off Course
• Church Centered Missions
  1. God intends for the local church to be the primary mobilizer of missions.
  2. God intends for the local church to own the strategic responsibility in missions.
  3. God intends for the local church to be the goal of all mission endeavors.
• Reclaiming What Belongs to the Church

For more information go to Repatriating Missions to the Local Church on the Lausanne Movement website.
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