Scripture: Psalm 25:4
Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths.
Thought for the Day: Back in 2008, Brian McLaren wrote the book, A New Kind of Christian. In the book he offers us some wonderfully challenging words that appear to fit in our discussion around Jesus Apprentice. He writes,
For Christ, his “called ones” (which is what the Greek term for “church” really means) were also to be his sent ones. He trained those he called to follow him as apprentices so that they could be sent in his ongoing mission to teach his good news. In this line of thinking about the church, we don’t recruit people to be customers of our products or consumers of our religious programs; we recruit them to be colleagues in our mission. The church doesn’t exist to satisfy the consumer demands of believers; the church exists to equip and mobilize men and women for God’s mission in the world. Thankfully, his mission isn’t to make more and more people more and more religious!
May we work to bring forth companions in the mission of Jesus Christ, mobilizing men and women for the good work putting love first in all things.
Prayer: Make your ways known to me, O Lord, and teach me your path. I desire to walk with you each day of my life. Amen.
TOMORROW
SUNDAY
is
World Communion Sunday
…and kicking off:
Jesus Apprentice
