"You begin right where you are. That’s the next step in this revival."

Dr. Robert E. Coleman  

Take it from someone with decades-more wisdom than me: the people right next to you matter. Discipleship is an overflow of our faith that reaches into our homes and neighborhoods, finds people pressing into real-life questions and seeking honest answers. It’s found in the rhythms of everyday life, the cadence of casual conversations. It’s God seeping into our habits and our tone, our reactions and our words.

And this unforced, ripple-effect way of living is what revival is riding on.

To piggy-back off what we talk about last week (you can find it here, if you missed it), we stay hungry for God by continuing “coming to him who is the Living Stone . . .” (2 Peter 2:4a TPT). In His presence, we grow in maturity, letting go of what distances us from Him. Then we live it out by loving the people right in front of us with Christ-saturated grace, practical compassion, and humble openness. With and without words.

May we be the kind of people not content to keep our thirst for Christ a secret. Who don’t limit our love to words or compartmentalize faith and everyday life.

Links mentioned:

1. “Rain Is an Opportunity to Share an Umbrella: Real-Life Ways to Love Those Right in Front of Us” teaching and accompanying workbook, created for the Faith in Action Summit and now available (free) to you.
2. The Obstacles to Neighborhood Missional Living Series. Join me on the blog or podcast as we tackle the biggest roadblocks to missional living and how to overcome them.
3. Cultivating a Missional Life: A 30-Day Devotional to Gently Help You Open Your Heart, Home, and Life to Your Neighbors. Download a free sample from the resource library, and if you want the rest it’s $4.99 on Kindle or $6.99 for the paperback. Grab the bonus 30-day missional living challenge (free with a purchase) to get the most out of the devotional.
4. View the written version of this episode.