I am enjoying Greg Finke’s book “Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary.” Here are a few highlights. (Warning: this is not a book that you can read and not implement… it will challenge you to make some real-life changes.)
“Jesus is in charge of ripening people. Our job is to watch for people who are ripe.”
“So every morning, as we head out for a new day of mission-adventure with Jesus, we can ask ourselves these simple questions: What’s Jesus already up to? Who are these people around me? And what are they almost ready for? Jesus did not give you a mission to do for him. He invites you to come on his mission with him. This is our new missional mindset. We can do this.”
“In the end, joining Jesus’ mission doesn’t require us to know more than we already do but to do more with what we already know.”
“Jesus does the incredibly complex work that requires the Son of God; we do the incredibly simple work that requires a little child.”
“In order to join Jesus on his redemptive mission all we really have to do is: enjoy people; and seek, recognize and respond to what Jesus is already doing in the lives of the people we are enjoying.”
“From now on, heaven has come to earth. There is now overlap. Intersection. Invasion. The kingdom has arrived. The kingdom has come and is now on the loose in our very midst. It is at hand, within reach, very near to each of us. For what purpose? To begin what God had promised from the beginning: the reversal of what has become of the created world since its fall and ruin in Genesis 3.”
“The mission of God is to redeem and restore all things to the Kingdom of God, beginning with human beings.”
“Wherever you go, there you are, and wherever you are, Jesus is already up to something. Therefore, coincidences become God-incidences.”
“When people start to see their daily lives as a mission trip and then participate in a missional community for support, insight and accountability, I see them quickly gaining insight and confidence in how to join Jesus.”
Finke is practical and to-the-point with a “just do it” style of writing.
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