Missio Dei 11

June 24, 2009

Missional Living is no special activity. Like spirituality (as per Eugene Peterson) it is local and ordinary. It is the normal Christian life (to borrow from Watchman Nee).

Local: Wherever I am. Whatever the patterns of my day-to-day life. Home, work, shop, church, club, bus, gas station, wherever. I am awake to the reality that I am an ambassador of Christ for kingdom living. Whoever is with me, before me, next to me are who I am sent to. The kingdom of God or the heavens is at hand. It is around us, it surrounds us, it is there for the taking, for the giving. I invite others into the Jesus life, which I am living. I behave in such a way that my life is inviting. I speak in such a way that my life is inviting. I enter the conversations that God has prepared for me.

Ordinary: Not special technique. No new methodology. The weather, the season, the sandwich I am eating, the book I am reading, the last mile I am jogging, whatever. It is not Tuesday night visitation, it is in the daily routines of life. The door opens. Serendipity. I act shrewdly as a serpent. I act harmlessly as a dove. I am awake to my surroundings. I pray for opportunity. I pray for God to make himself known in every situation. Didn’t our hearts get warmer when he spoke to us?

Normal. Not heroic. Not extra effort. Not extraordinary. It’s the way to live the dailiness of life as I live in Christ. Normal, open, genuine, unpretentious, always pointing upward. Take cookies to new neighbors, invite kids to come in for milk and cookies, baby sit for the couple next door, water their plants when they’re gone. Do it tenderly, do it without a care expecting nothing in return. Don’t manipulate, don’t have hidden motives. Love needs no reason.

This is missional living: local, ordinary, normal Christian living.

Posted by georges boujakly | Filed Under Missio Dei, Missional 

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