Today on Perry and Shawna Mornings, you are here on this planet at this time in history for such a time as this!  We have the pandemic that seems like it’ll never end; violence in our streets; excruciating division in our country and wounds of racism surfacing.  We need hope.  We need people who have faced the bitterness of despair and can shine the light of hope.  If you have tasted despair and then have experienced Jesus pouring hope into you, now is your time to shine.  Your next step is to share your hope story with someone who desperately needs it! 

Then, if you know your next step of obedience and you’re delaying your obedience, no stone throwing from Perry and Shawna here (!) but delayed obedience is disobedience. So tell God you love Him by obeying Him today, not to win His favor but because you already have it. With a grateful heart, obey the Father. 

And finally, discipleship is you saying to somebody:  Watch me do life.  Learn from me so that you can become more like Jesus.  Disciple-making is not about perfection, it’s showing another Jesus follower how you do life, including how you handle mistakes.  Perry shares about being invited to watch the life of an early mentor.  And how the tough love of this mentor saved him from a lot of heartache in life.  If you haven’t invited someone to watch you follow Jesus, change a life, that’s your next step.

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