Your mission field is the place you already spend most of your waking hours. This free series helps your church make disciples at work, school, uni and wherever you volunteer.
Jesus didn’t say “go” as a one-off trip. The way the command is written assumes we are already going. Mission isn’t something that happens overseas or on a weekend program. It happens at the desk next to yours, on the tools beside you, in the group chat.
A weekend can light a fire. A small group keeps it burning. When a few people stop treating faith and work as separate worlds, they start reaching the people around them on purpose. Those people reach others, and the circle widens well beyond anyone who was ever in the room. Not more attendees. More disciples who make disciples, right where they already are.
Three moves and five practices for everyday discipleship, drawn from Christ’s method: He mingled with people, showed sympathy, met their needs and won their confidence. Then He said, “Follow Me.”
“There is need of coming close to the people by personal effort.” Ellen G. White, Ministry of Healing, p. 143
We spent hours on the road together, and slowly the talk turned to the things that actually matter. I don’t know how his story ends. But I know a seed went in.
We just worked side by side, day after day, and somewhere in all those ordinary conversations a real friendship grew. Years later, they were sitting at our wedding.
She’s a colleague I’ve never once met face to face. When her hardest season came, we simply didn’t leave. That was the whole difference.
