Living Missional

I continually find myself coming back to thinking about how much more there must be to this life. One way that I think about my life, is looking at it being something that must be missional. My definition of missional is as follows.

Missional means purposely living every day (hour & minute) focused on doing Gods will. Missional living includes both an emphasis of our lives being focus not on the temporal but on Gods mission. Along with looking to Gods will, it also necessarily deals in concrete continual actions.

Over spring break, I was blessed to be able to go on mission trip to Salt Lake City Ut. The trip was phenomenal. I heard Renea (the Director of CBC’s NCM) mention the word missional, and started to think about it. The previous is what I came up with to comprehend the word. It flows along the same lines and another quote I’ve heard before (I’ve heard it attributed to a number of saints) “Pray as if it all depends on GOD, and live as if it all depends on YOU.” The mixture of waiting on God for everything, yet fully believing that you want to step out and act in practical ways is a vital concept in our Christian lives.

The trip was made up of in-reaches & out-reaches. Meaning we got to do things focused on the body of Christ (both within the team and outside of the team) and do stuff for people who where unbelievers. Probably the most exciting thing that I got to do was lead to different people to accept Christ into their lives.

Other than that we did a lot of other things;

• Fri 23 -- We started off the trip traveling to Boise ID, where we had an airsoft war.
  
  
• Sun & Mon 24-25 -- We got to spend time passing out DVD’s door to door. Salt Lake has a huge population of people in the LDS church. The DVD’s were put out by Good News For LDS. The movie focused on the teaching of the bible comparing it to the teaching of Joseph Smith and the LDS Church. It was really well put together.
  
  
• Tue, Wend & Thu 26-28 -- We did a lot of various activities. Each morning we broke up into groups and went out to do service (for churches, people, organizations). Early afternoon we would prepare for a kids club that we put on. Two of the evenings we helped at the churches food pantry and the third night we went and ministered at a youth group.