I have been thinking about missional living a lot lately. But it strikes me that we communicate very little to our people that they to can live a missional life. We as a church may have missional aspects, or in small groups or in our case mychurches are encouraged to be missional and think of others not just their group and to get up off their butts and do something. But do we encourage our people to be missional in their everyday lives?
We have a female cop that is a great servant at our church and she mentors a few teenage girls that have been in trouble with the law and during their prayer time one mentioned that she hoped her government check came soon so she could buy a few sanitary products. It sparked in my friend’s mind to ask around a church and among her friends to help these girls out with the little things they desperately needed. All of our people come in to contact with people in need or are passionate about something and with a little encouragement from us ministers and church leaders maybe they will use each day with the thoughts of doing something tangible not just sending money (which isn’t inherently bad, but more can be done) to help those in need around them. As a church meeting in a school, we have since day one thought of ways to help the school in different ways throughout the school year. We have some people in the church that help mentor student at the school in a school program, we have paid for teacher appreciation lunches and today Robbie and I raised a floor 6 inches in a large storage shed that they store P.E. equipment in but that frequently floods and ruins the stuff stored in there. It cost the church a whole $250 but the principle, teachers and support staff walked by and saw two non-county workers working in the shed and whether they support what we are doing or not they appreciate what we have done and see God’s glory because we let our lights shine and sweat a little.
