We see in this passage this new church taking the initiative to send out missionaries to establish new churches. The church is a sending church, because the church is a sent church: Christians are those who have been sent by God – reflecting God’s own sending of his son to seek and save the lost. Christians in a similar way are sent out into the world to reflect the Saving love of Jesus Christ to a lost & dying world. And because Christians have been sent, they send and they go.