For several Mondays this fall, I'm posting some practical ideas to help answer the question "what does 'living on mission' look like every day?" These are just example ideas to hep you live with "gospel intentionality"; consider how you could tweak each to fit your life. As you do, I'd love your input, ideas, and creativity as well. If you have ideas for the list, email me or comment below, and I'll get them up here in the coming weeks*. Here's this week's list:
- Join a board or committee in your neighborhood, seeking its improvement.
- Help your neighbor do yard work or build a fence.
- Borrow tools from your neighbors; generously give of your tools to them to borrow.
- Move into a part of your town with little or no gospel witness. Get to know folks there.
- Walk the same route or take the same train/bus to work each day. Talk to people.
- Volunteer at a charity near your home.
- Be the kind of neighbor everyone wants in their neighborhood.
- Tip your restaurant servers well.
- Sign up for a local sports team – not a “church league” team, but one in the community, at the YMCA, etc.
- And of course, the favorite example of the fall: invite your neighbors or co-workers over to watch the season premier of your favorite TV show. Or theirs.
[*Note: Some of these suggestions are original; some have been collected from others. In gratitude to them, and as an encouragement to you, I freely pass them along to copy, read, repost or otherwise use liberally. However, one reason for compiling this list is for an upcoming booklet/workbook, so I ask that you link back to this site if making any of it public, by including: "Ben Connelly, www.oneglory.org." Thanks!]
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