"Walk Like an (Egyptian), I mean, Missionary"

We had a great experience today. Maybe this post should have come before the last one. We met a couple here that are living like missionaries.



Over and over phrases like "I don't know any non-Christians", "that's not my gift", "I don't know how," come up in conversations.



Well, there are answers.



1. If one knows no non-Christians, then one is either blissfully ignorant of their context or disobedient to the calling of Christ



2. Nowhere in scripture can one make a case that evangelism is in fact a gift to the follower of Christ, but rather it is in the character of a follower of Christ.



3. This one can be remedied.



2 Corinthians 5-6 lay out why it is in the character of a follower of Christ: LOVE, we love Christ.

We show Christ through our words and with our lives.



This couple today out of the blue asked Abby and I to go to lunch. They are members at one of the local Churches, and aren't able to come to a "Welcome to Fargo" party they are throwing for us.



Several things that they do are challenges to us all.



1. 4 out of 5 days a week he eats breakfast at the same place. An inexpensive place where it costs very little, and you don't have to eat junk, but it is a place.

2. Every Saturday they go and eat breakfast with a group of people that they are having a significant impact on. When they first started going they were the outsiders but as time has passed they have grown to be the chaplains, so to speak. It has been overwhelming for them to think that by this small practice they are having kingdom impact on them.

3. They Pray consistently for the people they are called to minister to.


We can all do things like this not just to start a Church but to have an eternal impact on the people around us.