Missional Living for Regular People | Youth Specialties

My friend Cameron at the Northwest Witness tweeted about this article and I'm passing it on to you. It is a great reminder of how to be "Jesus" to your neighbors. As Christians, we must be intentional to "be there with all" (as Leonard Sweet would say). Your home is the starting place of where you should live as a MISSIONARY. Lilly Lewin the author of this articles says it this way,"Missional living, for me, begins with John 1. In The Message Bible, Eugene Peterson says in verse 14:

The Word became flesh and blood,
and moved into the neighborhood.
We saw the glory with our own eyes,
the one-of-a-kind glory,
like Father, like Son,
Generous inside and out,
true from start to finish.

Living missionally begins by seeing where you live and where you hang out everyday as your mission field. It means starting to live intentionally, choosing where you go and how you treat and interact with the people you see all the time. I love to tell my students that their schools, their teams, the person who shares the locker next to theirs is their mission field. That doesn’t mean handing out tracks or sharing Bible verses everyday, or even inviting them to youth group.

The first step of missional living is building relationships. Becoming friends with people and getting to know who they are… Being Jesus to the people in your neighborhood."

She goes on to talk about the "center of where this missional activity should happen" and "the goal of missional living." This is MISSIONAL for DUMMIES.

How are you living missionally? How are you presenting Jesus to your neighborhood? Would it be defined by caring, serving, listening? Share your stories here.

Missional Living for Regular People | Youth Specialties