As we all transition into the busyness of this next season, we're forced to ask a lot of questions concerning what we're going to do, what we can do, what we can manage, what we have time for, and so on. Questions help us sort out priorities but there is one simple question that helps us see our life and plans from God's viewpoint: What is the wise thing to do? This question, from what we read in our passage in Ephesians, helps us ask who we're becoming, who we're honouring, and how our life can bring others into the light. Those three questions help us find the way of wisdom.

God is active and alive in every place, calling us to praise him, live attentively, and trust that He wants to make Himself known through our everyday contexts.

Paul calls us to practice three spiritual disciplines that keep us centred on Jesus and effective in our mission. Paul calls us to continually 1) rejoice, 2) pray and 3) give thanks. As we practice these disciplines, God promises to keep our hearts at peace and our lives centred in His will.

In 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 the Apostle Paul gives us an outline of what his approach is to sharing Jesus with others. Rather than something formulaic, Paul is describing to us a way of being as it relates to sharing with others the hope we have in Christ. This message looks at what such a way of being in sharing Jesus can actually look like in our day-to-day so that we can be part of God's amazing plan of seeing lives transformed through Christ.

What does it look like to live on mission when life is difficult, discouraging, or just plain ordinary? In 2 Corinthians, Paul gives us four pictures of what it means to be sent by God—and four practices that help us keep going. Our weakness doesn’t have to put God’s mission on pause; it can become the very place where his power is seen most clearly.

Jesus reveals that the table is more than a place for a meal, it is a place where God’s Kingdom is made visible. At the table, Jesus brings transformation by extending mercy, challenges the pursuit of status by teaching humility, and calls His followers to practice hospitality that reflects God’s grace. The Kingdom of Jesus is seen when we welcome those who cannot repay us and create spaces where people experience belonging, healing, and the love of God. Jesus invites us not only to receive a place at His table but to become people who extend that invitation to others.

Sometimes life does not go according to our plans. Difficulties come and we’re disoriented. We don’t know what to do or how to go forward from here. But God provides so we can keep going in life and mission even during disorienting times. 

Summer interruptions, travel, gatherings, and ordinary conversations can become unexpected opportunities to encounter Jesus and share his good news. In John 4, Jesus shows us that what we might sometimes see as inconveniences could actually be divine appointments. As we learn to see interruptions through the eyes of Jesus, the Holy Spirit can transform everyday moments into opportunities for mission.

Don’t want to sound crazy but if I were your enemy, I think my tactic would be to make sure that you were living your life always in a hurry and never in rest. I would take something neutral and not even sinful like work, family, stress, success, and technology and let a hurried pace steal, kill, or even destroy your soul; a soul that requires rest. Our hurried pace is affecting our spiritual vitality and it's affecting our witness to a culture who is looking for and needing rest. This summer, we can either escape or we can learn to get away and find rest because when God’s people are at rest, other weary souls can find rest in Him too.

As we allow the peace of Christ to rule our hearts and the word of Christ to dwell richly within us, our everyday lives become opportunities to reflect the reign of King Jesus. Whether in our relationships, conversations, work, or service, we are called to do everything in His name. Living on mission begins with a heart surrendered to Christ's rule, allowing His Kingdom values to shape how we think, act, and engage with the people around us each day.