Over the passed three weeks or so, our “mission” seems to have, finally, picked up. (Mission, as I am describing here, is the physically active and visibly recognizable sect of living and serving through Christ’s love.) We have had the opportunity to make some great contacts with “CommonWealth Church” (http://www.commonwealthchurch.org/) and with “St. Barnabas” (http://www.stbarnabas.co.uk/). These two churches, though significantly different in their operation, origination, geographic location, and with their surrounding demographics, have both cultivated compassionate understandings for those internally and externally located about their “four walls.” More details concerning our work with these two churches in blogs to follow; hopefully, shortly.
I have recently adopted the mindset and intentions of one of my mates, Charles Fowler, in relation to serving unto those within the Church body and those without: Whatever you choose to do, do so in a way that it may have a lasting impact. Anyone can serve wherever they choose; and, it will be of some benefit. However, do you really want to live in a specific place for a total of six months and have that “service” stall, or stop, or leave when you decide to depart? Let’s make a lasting impact while we are here. Let us encourage the Church here in a way that will spur them on towards accomplishing the work they have already put years of prayer and action into; and, let’s show the people around us the personal, real, and remarkable transformation that we ourselves have undergone by the grace of Christ.
So, that is what I have been striving towards: hoping to entirely comprehend the weight and significance of a “missional lifestyle” and accomplish exactly what it is that I was sent here to do. Let the journey continue.
I have recently adopted the mindset and intentions of one of my mates, Charles Fowler, in relation to serving unto those within the Church body and those without: Whatever you choose to do, do so in a way that it may have a lasting impact. Anyone can serve wherever they choose; and, it will be of some benefit. However, do you really want to live in a specific place for a total of six months and have that “service” stall, or stop, or leave when you decide to depart? Let’s make a lasting impact while we are here. Let us encourage the Church here in a way that will spur them on towards accomplishing the work they have already put years of prayer and action into; and, let’s show the people around us the personal, real, and remarkable transformation that we ourselves have undergone by the grace of Christ.
So, that is what I have been striving towards: hoping to entirely comprehend the weight and significance of a “missional lifestyle” and accomplish exactly what it is that I was sent here to do. Let the journey continue.
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