For several Mondays this fall, I'm posting some practical ideas o 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:- Use the “Tom’s Shoes” principle: instead of buying a $100 pair of jeans for yourself, but yourself a $50 pair and buy another $50 pair to give away. Or shirt. Or shoes. Etc.
- Go meet your neighbors.
- Go meet your co-workers.
- Meet with a local principal: ask what some of the needs are in his/her school. Work toward meeting them.
- Build relationships with homeless folks. Go spend a few hours in their community, simply asking their names, hearing their stories, and sharing yours.
- Go hang out with the homeless folks regularly.
- Do the same thing with the immigrant population.
- Find at-risk, abandoned, or otherwise needy kids: give your time to get to know them and as they allow you, take them under your wing.
- A little less “everyday,” but consider adopting a child: it’s a visual reflection of the gospel, and there are 100,000 orphans in the U.S. alone (+ millions worldwide).
- Call up an old friend and rebuild a relationship that used to be there.
[*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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