"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations..."
Vision Statement
The vision of the missions ministry is to use the time, resources, and talents of the church to strengthen local churches in areas where Christ is not known (Romans 15:20) or where the local church faces significant obstacles. Also, to motivate and inspire the Seed's congregation to care about the advance of the gospel not only in their own church and their own city but in areas around the world (2 Corinthians 10:16).
Romans 15:20 - "My aim is to preach the gospel where Christ has not been named, so that I will not build on someone else's foundation,"
2 Corinthians 10:16 - "so that we may preach the gospel to the regions beyond you without boasting about what has already been done in someone else's area of ministry."
The Gospel for the World
Below is a list of biblical references (Gen thru Rev) showing God's heart for the whole world he created.
Old Testament
Old Testament
Gen 12:3 CSB - I will bless those who bless you, I will curse anyone who treats you with contempt, and all the peoples on earth will be blessed through you.
Gen 18:18 CSB - "Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.
Gen 22:18 CSB - "And all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring because you have obeyed my command."
Gen 26:4 CSB - "I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky, I will give your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring,
Gen 28:14 CSB - "Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out toward the west, the east, the north, and the south. All the peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
Exo 9:16 CSB - "However, I have let you live for this purpose: to show you my power and to make my name known on the whole earth.
Jos 4:24 CSB - "This is so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD's hand is mighty, and so that you may always fear the LORD your God."
1Ki 8:43, 60 CSB - may you hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all the foreigner asks. Then all peoples of earth will know your name, to fear you as your people Israel do and to know that this temple I have built bears your name. ... "May all the peoples of the earth know that the LORD is God. There is no other!
1Ch 16:23-24 CSB - Let the whole earth sing to the LORD. Proclaim his salvation from day to day. Declare his glory among the nations, his wondrous works among all peoples.
2Ch 6:33 CSB - may you hear in heaven in your dwelling place, and do all the foreigner asks you. Then all the peoples of the earth will know your name, to fear you as your people Israel do and know that this temple I have built bears your name.
Psa 2:8 CSB - "Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance and the ends of the earth your possession.
Psa 22:27 CSB - All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before you,
Psa 33:8 CSB - Let the whole earth fear the LORD; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
Psa 47:1 CSB - Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout to God with a jubilant cry.
Psa 48:10 CSB - Like your name, God, so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth; your right hand is filled with justice.
Psa 64:9 CSB - Then everyone will fear and will tell about God's work, for they will understand what he has done.
Psa 67:2-3, 7 CSB - so that your way may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations. Let the peoples praise you, God; let all the peoples praise you. ... God will bless us, and all the ends of the earth will fear him.
Psa 72:11, 17 CSB - Let all kings bow in homage to him, all nations serve him. ... May his name endure forever; as long as the sun shines, may his fame increase. May all nations be blessed by him and call him blessed.
Psa 82:8 CSB - Rise up, God, judge the earth, for all the nations belong to you.
Psa 86:9 CSB - All the nations you have made will come and bow down before you, Lord, and will honor your name.
Psa 96:1, 3 CSB - Sing a new song to the LORD; let the whole earth sing to the LORD. ... Declare his glory among the nations, his wondrous works among all peoples.
Psa 97:6 CSB - The heavens proclaim his righteousness; all the peoples see his glory.
Psa 98:3 CSB - He has remembered his love and faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen our God's victory.
Psa 102:15 CSB - Then the nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth your glory,
Psa 117:1 CSB - Praise the LORD, all nations! Glorify him, all peoples!
Psa 145:21 CSB - My mouth will declare the LORD's praise; let every living thing bless his holy name forever and ever.
Psa 148:7, 11 CSB - Praise the LORD from the earth, all sea monsters and ocean depths, ... kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all judges of the earth,
Isa 2:2 CSB - In the last days the mountain of the LORD's house will be established at the top of the mountains and will be raised above the hills. All nations will stream to it,
Isa 25:6-7 CSB - On this mountain, the LORD of Armies will prepare for all the peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast with aged wine, prime cuts of choice meat, fine vintage wine. On this mountain he will destroy the burial shroud, the shroud over all the peoples, the sheet covering all the nations;
Isa 34:1 CSB - You nations, come here and listen; you peoples, pay attention! Let the earth and all that fills it hear, the world and all that comes from it.
Isa 40:5 CSB - And the glory of the LORD will appear, and all humanity together will see it, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
Isa 42:10 CSB - Sing a new song to the LORD; sing his praise from the ends of the earth, you who go down to the sea with all that fills it, you coasts and islands with your inhabitants.
Isa 43:6 CSB - "I will say to the north, 'Give them up! ' and to the south, 'Do not hold them back! ' Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the ends of the earth --
Isa 45:22-23 CSB - "Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth. For I am God, and there is no other. "By myself I have sworn; truth has gone from my mouth, a word that will not be revoked: Every knee will bow to me, every tongue will swear allegiance.
Isa 49:6 CSB - he says, "It is not enough for you to be my servant raising up the tribes of Jacob and restoring the protected ones of Israel. I will also make you a light for the nations, to be my salvation to the ends of the earth."
Isa 52:10 CSB - The LORD has displayed his holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
Isa 56:7 CSB - "I will bring them to my holy mountain and let them rejoice in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be acceptable on my altar, for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations."
Isa 61:11 CSB - For as the earth produces its growth, and as a garden enables what is sown to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
Isa 66:18, 20, 23 CSB - "Knowing their works and their thoughts, I have come to gather all nations and languages; they will come and see my glory. ... "They will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the LORD on horses and chariots, in litters, and on mules and camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem," says the LORD, "just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD. ... "All mankind will come to worship me from one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another," says the LORD.
Jer 3:17 CSB - At that time Jerusalem will be called The LORD's Throne, and all the nations will be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD in Jerusalem. They will cease to follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.
Jer 33:9 CSB - "This city will bear on my behalf a name of joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the prosperity I will give them. They will tremble with awe because of all the good and all the peace I will bring about for them.
Eze 39:21 CSB - "I will display my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment I have executed and the hand I have laid on them.
Dan 7:14 CSB - "He was given dominion, and glory, and a kingdom; so that those of every people, nation, and language should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will not be destroyed.
Zep 2:11 CSB - The LORD will be terrifying to them when he starves all the gods of the earth. Then all the distant coasts and islands of the nations will bow in worship to him, each in its own place.
Zep 3:9 CSB - For I will then restore pure speech to the peoples so that all of them may call on the name of the LORD and serve him with a single purpose.
Hag 2:7 CSB - "I will shake all the nations so that the treasures of all the nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory," says the LORD of Armies.
Zec 8:23 CSB - The LORD of Armies says this: "In those days, ten men from nations of every language will grab the robe of a Jewish man tightly, urging: Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you."
Zec 9:10 CSB - I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem. The bow of war will be removed, and he will proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.
Mal 3:12 CSB - "Then all the nations will consider you fortunate, for you will be a delightful land," says the LORD of Armies.
Hab 2:14 CSB - For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD's glory, as the water covers the sea.
Mal 1:11 CSB - "My name will be great among the nations, from the rising of the sun to its setting. Incense and pure offerings will be presented in my name in every place because my name will be great among the nations," says the LORD of Armies.
New Testament
Mat 24:14 CSB - "This good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Mat 28:19 CSB - "Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Mar 11:17 CSB - He was teaching them: "Is it not written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of thieves! "
Mar 13:10, 27 CSB - "And it is necessary that the gospel be preached to all nations. ... "He will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.
Mar 16:15 CSB - Then he said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
Luk 2:31-32 CSB - You have prepared it in the presence of all peoples -- a light for revelation to the Gentiles and glory to your people Israel.
Luk 3:6 CSB - and everyone will see the salvation of God.
Luk 24:47 CSB - "and repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Jhn 17:23 CSB - "I am in them and you are in me, so that they may be made completely one, that the world may know you have sent me and have loved them as you have loved me.
Act 1:8 CSB - "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."
Act 2:17 CSB - "And it will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all people; then your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.
Act 3:25 CSB - "You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, And all the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.
Act 10:35 CSB - "but in every nation the person who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
Act 13:47 CSB - "For this is what the Lord has commanded us: I have made you a light for the Gentiles to bring salvation to the end of the earth."
Rom 1:5 CSB - Through him we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the Gentiles,
Rom 14:11 CSB - For it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will give praise to God.
Rom 15:11 CSB - And again, Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles; let all the peoples praise him!
Rom 16:26 CSB - but now revealed and made known through the prophetic Scriptures, according to the command of the eternal God to advance the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles β-- β
Gal 3:8 CSB - Now the Scripture saw in advance that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and proclaimed the gospel ahead of time to Abraham, saying, All the nations will be blessed through you.
Phl 2:10-11 CSB - so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow -- in heaven and on earth and under the earth -- and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
1Ti 2:3-4 CSB - This is good, and it pleases God our Savior, who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2Pe 3:9 CSB - The Lord does not delay his promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.
1Jo 2:2 CSB - He himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for those of the whole world.
Rev 5:9 CSB - And they sang a new song: You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slaughtered, and you purchased people for God by your blood from every tribe and language and people and nation.
Rev 7:9 CSB - After this I looked, and there was a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language, which no one could number, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes with palm branches in their hands.
Rev 12:5 CSB - She gave birth to a Son, a male who is going to rule all nations with an iron rod. Her child was caught up to God and to his throne.
Rev 14:6 CSB - Then I saw another angel flying high overhead, with the eternal gospel to announce to the inhabitants of the earth β-- βto every nation, tribe, language, and people.
Rev 15:4 CSB - Lord, who will not fear and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All the nations will come and worship before you because your righteous acts have been revealed.