It is appropriate during the current sermon series to consider the place where God has sent us Monday to Friday. We ought to ask: how God would have us live distinctively in this place? Below is a way to ‘stock-take’ your missional life Monday to Friday. You might set aside some time this week to begin your ‘stock-take’. Have a few goes at this over the next few weeks. When you are finished you might pin your thoughts up where you can see them during the week.
Take a page. Down the left hand side of the page write the six ‘lenses’, below.
Across the top of the page have two columns:
In point form:
As you consider your role in the place where you have been ‘sent’, you might pray the prayer that we prayer together on Sunday:
A short testament -- Anne Porter: whatever harm I mave have done, in all my life in all your wide creation, if I cannot repair it, I beg you to repair it... and where there are lives I may have withered around me, and lives of strangers far and near that I've destroyed in blind complicity, and if I cannot find them, would have no way to serve them, remember them, I beg you to remember them, when winter is over, and all your unimaginable promises burst into song on death's bare branches.