ADD to the Breathe Story:  The GOSPEL CHANGES EVERYTHING

The Gospel changes everything.  The Gospel always travels through people.  The Gospel happens one relationship at a time, and is always one relationship away from another changed life.  The Gospel is still moving, and it always will until every tribe, tongue and nation has been included.

How do we become the kind of people—and the kind of community—through whom the Gospel can take root in every network of relationships in a radically diverse, post-majority culture?

The future of the Church in America will not be sustained by cultural dominance, but through ordinary people, in unexpected places, across lines we once thought were barriers, living incarnationally, planting the Gospel in highly contextualized ways, and making disciples relationally, and letting the Gospel travel along those diverse relational networks.

The Gospel travels through ordinary people.  If we believe every person bears the image of God, and if we believe the Church exists for the mission of God, then we must resist any language that makes it easier to fear, dismiss, or demonize the very people Jesus calls us to love. Especially when some of those vulnerable to detention or deportation are not strangers to the family of God, but sisters and brothers in Christ.  We can bank on this.  Our God loved the whole world, so much so, that He gave His one and only Son (Jesus) to make the ultimate sacrifice, so that anyone who believes could become a child of God.

Your mission field begins on the soil where your feet already stand.  The “Two-Minute Drill”

Pull out smartphone or get on your device.  Think of one person on your relationship list of people you want to see come to Jesus and send a simple, no-pressure message inviting them to join you this week!

“Hey friend…I am sitting here right now, and I can’t get you out of my mind. I have found a real community who strengthens me, and helps me find peace and purpose in my world.  I want to invite you to join me this next Sunday at 10am.   Let’s do lunch afterwards!  I love doing life with you!   Reach out!