“How can we possibly add everyday mission to our already-packed fifteen-to-nineteen waking hours of each day?” ask the authors of A Field Guide for Everyday Mission. Perhaps this is a question you and I have asked with similar words—one that haunts us and simultaneously offers us permission to dismiss the nudge to live on mission. They continue: “The very thought is enough to overwhelm us and keep us from even trying.” We nod in agreement. But their next question is unexpected: “But what if that’s the wrong question?” The statement that follows hit dangerously close to home for me, a former we-need-to-say-yes-to-all-the-things type of mother: “God’s mission cannot be added into our busy lives; our busy lives must wrap around God’s mission” (Connelly and Roberts, Jr. 117). In this post/episode we are going to unpack how neighborhood missional living can take place in the midst of our busy lives.

 

Next up in the “Obstacles to Neighborhood Missional Living” series is “Neighborhood Missional Living When I Am Too Busy”! Listen in, or if you prefer to read, head on over to the blog. From this page you can view the full topic line-up for the series and easily click over to the post on the blog.

 

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Links Mentioned:

 

• Creating Margin
• Margin Meets Mission: The Gift of Availability
• The Paradox of Rest
• Summer in a Picture-Frame: Nos and Yeses