A phrase has got stuck in my head... "building Christians, engaging the world"
It is the phrase that I am using to evaluate all my time energy and effort. It's want I want to do with my life because it is what I believe God is doing through the church.
It's also what we hope to do every time we get together as the young adults of MBC, to build one another up in God, and to engage with the people who have not chosen to follow God yet.
I am hoping that we will get so good at it that we will be constantly surrounded with people who do and do not know God.
When it comes to our informal ministry (church scattered), the places we study/work/socialise it would be great if that thinking could begin to lead us... how can we build up the Christians who are with us, how can we engage with those that are not Christians yet that are around us...
When it comes to the more formal ministry (church gathered) life groups, ministry evenings, social events, camps, it would be great if that thinking could begin to lead us... how can we build up the Christians who are with us, how can we engage with those that are not Christians [but have come!]... and I am trusting that in the future, all our formal ministry would be geared that way (because we have a mandate to disciple our city, nation, nations).
Gosh it is great to be alive with God at this time!
So next time you see an invite to a formal event, put on the lenses of a missiologist, who can you bring to engage, who can you meet and build...
Trusting God for acts 2:47, and daily the lord added to their number those who were being saved...
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