I am a news hound.  I have always loved  watching the news to keep up with what is happening in our world.  While I like the news, I often find it very frustrating.  I am amazed at how often I will watch a news story and in the end have no clue what the story was about.  I often have more questions at the end of the story than I did before I heard it.  Quite often I find that the reporters do not answer the fundamental questions that the general viewer would have.

In their book “A Field Guide to Everyday Mission: 30 Days and 101 Ways to Demonstrate the Gospel” Ben Connelly and Bob Robert’s Jr. the authors’ desire is to help those desiring to me missionaries in their neighbourhoods answer the most important questions.  The questions they want their readers to answer are:

1. Who is my everyday mission field?
2. What does an everyday missionary do?
3. When does everyday mission happen?
4. Where does everyday mission happen?
5. Why should I even care about everyday mission?
6. How do I share the gospel without killing the relationship?

Over the next ten weeks, I want to unpack these questions very carefully and thoroughly.  These questions may seem very simple, and maybe some are, but answering them is only part of the solution.  The other part of the formula is learning to put the arrived at answer into everyday practice.

We will seek to address these questions with a particular focus on our context of Leduc, Leduc County and the other locations where God has planted our LFC community members.

I want to make sure that we as a community at Leduc Fellowship wrestle with these questions and put our faith into action.  As we are studying through the Gospel of Mark, we have and will see the hope that the Gospel brought into the world as Jesus “moved into the neighbourhood”.

Next week, I will begin to unpack the six questions above looking at one question each week.  As we prepare for the journey ahead please be in prayer about these six questions and the four vision questions in the previous post.  Don’t try to answer all of the questions just begin to feel the freedom to ask the questions.

 ^“Dear friends, do you think you’ll get anywhere in this if you learn all the right words but never do anything? Does merely talking about faith indicate that a person really has it? For instance, you come upon an old friend dressed in rags and half-starved and say, “Good morning, friend! Be clothed in Christ! Be filled with the Holy Spirit!” and walk off without providing so much as a coat or a cup of soup—where does that get you? Isn’t it obvious that God-talk without God-acts is outrageous nonsense?”   James 2:14-17 The Message