Are you ready to live for something bigger?
There are so many parts of our lives where we simply go through the motions, and we don't think about the fact that God deliberately set us in these places to make a difference.
Our hope is that if you put these 3 questions, 2 scriptures, and 1 challenge into action, the culture of your relationships will change for the better.
3 Questions
#1. What surprises you most about the way you spend your week? What are the places that you aren’t thinking about as a mission field?
#2. How can you integrate the different parts of your life for the sake of building community? Is there anywhere that you could be more intentional, or show up a little bit differently?
I had a friend who would go to her kids' gymnastics class, and eventually she realized, “oh my goodness! I'm sitting here scrolling my phone and there are all these other moms right beside me.” When she saw who was right in front of her, she started to make friends there.
What are places where you could show up differently and integrate community into the places you’re already in?
#3. What little everyday activities can you invite people into?
One of the greatest ways you can share a mission with friends is by doing your everyday tasks together. This is how most of the world is already doing this. In village life, they're getting water together, walking, and sharing life together. They're making a fire and cooking dinner together. They're parenting together because they're not in separate households. They're just doing life together.
One of the greatest ways you can begin to share a mission with others is to share life together. Do things like run errands together, take walks together, bring each other into different issues you have in various areas of your life.
2 Scriptures
For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
We belong to one another in Christ. This should mean that there are a certain number of people in your inner circle that you feel responsible for. You should have people that you're going to check on and taking care of. They’re your people. And the same would go for you if something happens to you. We belong to each other.
We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies. Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the food they eat.
He's saying, “get busy.” We are called to work, not to idleness. Some of you need to hear this because you’re wasting your time gossiping and being petty. One of the greatest ways to get over your sin, burdens, or things that are causing you difficulty, is to run the race that God set before you.
The idea that we become gossips when we're not busy is real. When we get lazy and idle, we complain and get cranky. Several of us saw this in ourselves during COVID. We got soft because we weren't disciplined. Most of us were idle and it wasn’t emotionally or relationally good for us.
One of the greatest things we can do is live a shared mission with people where we get up in the morning and have a clear purpose.
Prior to the fall, work was a part of our story and our calling. Work is a gift from God. And we need to identify what work is for us. We need to have a team and a mission.
We need to bring our community into the mission and the work that we have before us, and we need to bring this into our relationships and friendships.
1 Challenge
Complete the Time Assessment in the book or the book club guide.
Once you fill this out, you will start noticing where you spend your time.
What’s the mission that you already have in your life? Then ask yourself, who are the people that are beside you in your missions of your work?
Name them. Who are these people? Start to notice them and think, “could we be on a mission together in this space?” You could spend your time in such a way that the everyday tasks are redeemed into something eternal. That's the goal.
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