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“We are careful not to pull out our Jesus-hoses. Instead we seek to offer a cool-cup-of-water of Jesus.”
― Greg Finke, Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary

“The key to joining Jesus’ mission is realizing we don’t have to find a way to come out of our hectic lifestyle in order to have a missional life. Our hectic life is our missional life.”
― Greg Finke, Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary

“It’s better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.”
― Greg Finke, Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary

“We’re not on mission for Jesus but with Jesus!”
― Greg Finke, Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary

“Could Big Larry be a person of peace? Absolutely. If Jesus could work in the lives of tax collectors and sinners in the Gospels, why not in the lives of the neighborhood dealers?”
― Greg Finke, Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary

“Take a moment to list the “neighborhoods” to which you have access.”
― Greg Finke, Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary

“Joining Jesus doesn’t add another layer of busyness on top of an already insane schedule. Instead, joining Jesus results in less stress, more life, more laughter and more fruit than what many of us are currently seeing.”
― Greg Finke, Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary

“Joining Jesus on his redemptive mission is what I mean by the term “missional living.” “Missional living” is simply living each day as if it were a mission trip. The difference, of course, is that instead of being on a mission trip to a foreign land, we are on a mission trip to our own community. We are Neighborhood Missionaries. The word “missional” is simply a descriptive word indicating that each part of our daily lives can now be seen as part of Jesus’ redemptive mission in our community. Going out to get the mail, going to the store for a gallon of milk or going to the school to pick up our kids now has mission potential.”
― Greg Finke, Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary

“People in the community are increasingly saying, “No, thank you,” to our invitations to come to church. Previous assumptions and strategies that used to work well are suddenly not working so well anymore. Consider the following”
― Greg Finke, Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary

“Jesus speaks of little seeds through which God grows mighty works. Our job is not the mighty works; our job is the little seeds.”
― Greg Finke, Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary

“HERE’S THE POINT Stop stalling. You will learn more about being a missionary by doing something missional than you will by reading something missional. It’s not what you know, but what you do with what you know that makes a difference in people’s lives.”
― Greg Finke, Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary

“How’s Jesus been trying to get your attention lately? What’s he been showing you? What’s he been stirring in you? How has he made you uncomfortable with your status quo?”
― Greg Finke, Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary

“It is my observation that the congregations who have both vibrant Sunday worship and vibrant missional communities are the congregations seeing the most growth – spiritually, missionally, and numerically.”
― Greg Finke, Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary

“So, each day, while you are running as fast as you can to keep your life and family above water put the 5 Practices into play and see what Jesus does. Seek what his kingdom is already showing you, listen for the words he’s already speaking to you, talk with the people you’re already meeting along the way, do good when it is within your reach to do so, and pray … for people and with people.”
― Greg Finke, Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary

“In order to join Jesus on his redemptive mission all we really have to do is: enjoy people; and seek, recognize and respond to what Jesus is already doing in the lives of the people we are enjoying.”
― Greg Finke, Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary

“When we work, we work. But when we pray, God works.”
― Greg Finke, Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary

“If we always do what we’ve always done, we’ll always get what we’ve always gotten.”
― Greg Finke, Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary