“Living on mission isn’t just one of our many activities. It’s our very identity. We’re a sent people, dispatched into the world bearing his message. It’s less about busying ourselves with church work and more about shadowing him in his mission.

“God could well have chosen to advance his kingdom without our partnership. He doesn’t need us. He doesn’t hang a “Help Wanted” sign in the window. The Pharaohs conscripted thousands of slaves to build their pyramids. God, on the other hand, blesses his beloved sons and daughters with the privilege of partnering with him as his “fellow workers.” We’re on a co-mission with our Maker…

“His love for me and through me “compels” me to love others with his heart, including some of the most unlovable.”

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I chose this particular excerpt from my book: Missional, Merciful, Worshipful Christians and Their Churches: A Study of Luke Chapter Ten for its bearing on our current moment as a nation and for us as a Christian community. It’s God’s “love,” God’s “mission,” God’s “kingdom,” and yet he asks us to partner with him to scatter his seeds, not throw grenades or use the cross as a sword. How can we follow Jesus today? What would he have us do to deescalate the unproductive tension in our nation and accelerate the will, way, and word of our Father?

I’m told the book helps us go in that direction. Oh, and since the proceeds all go to YWAM San Francisco, you’ll be helping them do what most of us can’t. Here’s how you get the book and help them at the same time.  

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