Even if you are not a religious person, I think this is a brilliant video to watch and some of the words spoken are much what we need to hear right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVpZCSi9UP8
"The amount of money and stuff that..and programs that go into Christianity in the west should have the whole world converted already because billions of dollars get pumped into missions in the west in Christianity and the success rate just is not there."
"And I am all for getting people saved, I'm all for getting the Gospel, and I praise God He has missionaries in those other countries or areas of the world where we need the Gospel, but if you want my honest opinion, America is right now the biggest mission field in the world. Western, the west, is THE most godless society on the face of the earth right now. And in the west, we have the most exorbitant amounts of money going into the churches and missions, and in the mission field but yet, the church of Jesus Christ in the west here is it is it's in dismal condition"
Hear! Hear! The fact that many Christians had absolutely no problem shuttering churches and cancelling services during the Plandemic, then played emotional blackmail making us feel like bad Christians for not masking...I learned a lot about some of my fellow Christians...
I have said many times that we need to concentrate on home missions more than on foreign missions.
Great discussion on what true missions should be verses what they actually have become. Missions have become part of a social gospel where missionaries think the goal is to better the lives of those they encounter. All that does is make people more comfortable on their way to hell. Obviously not ALL missions do that, but so many have become focused on life improvement rather than soul saving.
The command is 'GO and make disciples of all the nations. In order to make disciples, they must be taught, and that is verse 20 -teaching them to OBSERVE all things that I have commanded you.
Going to another country to another nation is fine, however the place you are living in currently is also a nation, and Christians can go into their own nation and carry out the Great Commission.