Welcome to Theology on Mission
This website is an invitation to journey with us through the ups and downs of pursuing a life worth living. You may be one of the countless people we have met along the way or maybe you have stumbled across this page while wandering through the digital universe, either way we hope that this is a place you can return to from time to time and find questions, answers, inspiration, and encouragement.
What is Theology on Mission?
It’s the belief that we all possess a theology – a way we see ourselves in the world and, specifically, how we see God. Those very ideas dictate how we make decisions, how we love others, how we work, and where we believe our journeys will end up.
Every single person has a theology. It doesn’t matter if you are a follower of Jesus or not, you have beliefs about yourself and about God. The main question we all should have is whether or not our theology is informed by an active pursuit of the truth or whether it’s something we have just inherited from the world around us.
From our perspective as Christians, the question is whether our theology is informed by the Bible as God’s inspired Word or are we those who have added Jesus to our pantheon of other “gods” in our lives?
It is our theology that defines our mission. I think we all, at one level or another, long to live a life that is worth pursuing. We want a life full of meaning and purpose. We desire to see ourselves reach our full potential, both personally and professionally. And most likely, we long for a community of people to belong to that will guide us and challenge us to get there.
Invitation to Journey With Us
It was 13 years ago this fall that my wife, Sarah, and I began a radical journey to dedicate our lives to vocational ministry. That decision has taken us all around the world with the intent of sharing God’s truth with people of all nations, languages, and tribes. We have slept in tents in a desert, served on the streets of Eastern Europe, led an underground Bible school in Asia, and served in the local church.
Through this same time, we grew into a family of five and began trying to figure out what it means to be parents, especially as parents in global ministry.
Our own journey and pursuit of God has led us to countless experiences, both of amazing joy and of unfathomable heartbreak. It has widened our worldview and changed our perspective on the world around us.
And this all comes back full circle to why you are here. We created this platform as an outlet for truth and a place where our journey can hopefully serve as a guidepost for you as you seek a life on mission.
As the weeks roll on, we will be contributing content that will dive deeper into the topics of theology, family, mission, finances, parenting, and much more. In all that we put forward, we will strive to always write from a place of experience rather than theory. We also desire that all of our content will touch on our theology (beliefs) leading to living out our lives on mission. Without each side to balance each other out, theology without mission is knowledge that leads nowhere while mission without theology is at best a pursuit with half-truths and at worse a life leading to destruction.
In the end, we hope that you will come along for the ride and grow closer to God as you pursue Him.