Incarnate: Living and Sharing Jesus in Everyday Life

Come and see this man who told me everything that I had done, and they did. They invited people to be directed towards Jesus, and they become kingdom outposts because of it. We think evangelism is using the right words at the right time and that the person would then use the right words back, and ta da, we're successful. But we are forgetting the word, Jesus. Everyone can share the good news because our everyday ordinary life with Jesus is good news. [01:03:35] (39 seconds)  #ComeAndSeeJesus

You know, it's not so curious these days to give away money to a not for profit or to volunteer somewhere. Right? Or to look after the poor. What's more curious is saying sorry, forgiving someone, listening deeply to people, being present to people, having time for rich conversation, suspending judgment. Yeah. That's curious. We can listen. We can say sorry when we make a mistake. We can withhold our judgment. Door of hope, we can do that. [01:00:13] (39 seconds)  #CuriousKindness

What was spirit was made flesh, and that is what incarnate means to be made of flesh. That's where the word comes from, meat. Right? To be made flesh. God himself, the word in the beginning, was made into flesh to dwell amongst us. A loving and generous god with the purpose of reconnecting us to his heart and to his presence lowered himself when he read that from Philippians two this morning, just then. Lowered himself, became low so that we might be with him and he with us in our ordinary day to day life. [00:44:34] (43 seconds)  #IncarnateLove

Prayer is such a good start, everyone, asking the holy spirit to prepare and lead. And then he said, and pray for us too that god may open a door for our message so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ for which I am in chains and pray that I may proclaim it clearly as I should. Paul was confident in his work even in chains, and he asked that the church would pray that, he would have open doors and the ability and the opportunity to share and proclaim boldly. [00:57:29] (35 seconds)  #PrayForOpenDoors

grace filled, flavorsome conversations, both covered in prayer, both sharing the good news of Jesus. How can you do little e evangelism? Well, be a compelling curiosity. Follow Jesus in your everyday ordinary life. In postmodern, postsecular Australia, a Jesus follower indwelt by the holy spirit with some peace and some kindness and a bit of generosity is a curious thing. Yeah. We invite questions. And actually, smaller is more curious. [00:59:26] (48 seconds)  #CompellingCuriosity

Jesus completed this work through his death, burial, resurrection, and ascension to the father, and we sit now in this post Easter season. Right? It's the sixth week of Easter before we get to Pentecost next week when we remember this next phase when Jesus sent his holy spirit to again dwell with us, but not in fleshly form. That's us now. We are the flesh. We are flesh and blood image bearers of god, indwelt by his holy spirit incarnate. [00:46:24] (40 seconds)  #ImageBearers

That's little e evangelism. Living your life with Jesus, having authentic conversations, praying for your friends, we can do that. In the book of John, we read, there was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light so that through him, all might believe. He himself was not the light. He came only as a witness to the light. The word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. [01:02:03] (38 seconds)  #EverydayWitness

Would you imagine the timeline of your life just for a moment, your childhood, your teenagehood, becoming a young adult, adulthood, your career, your family, maybe into your senior years. I'll invite the band to come up now. As we just think about that, where was God's activity? Where was Jesus and his goodness along that timeline? Where does he show up? What does the good news look like in your world? Because that's the good news that we share with people just by doing our everyday ordinary life. [01:04:33] (72 seconds)  #JesusInMyStory

Come and see this man who told me everything that I had done, and they did. They invited people to be directed towards Jesus, and they become kingdom outposts because of it. We think evangelism is using the right words at the right time and that the person would then use the right words back, and ta da, we're successful. But we are forgetting the Word, Jesus. Everyone can share the good news because our everyday ordinary life with Jesus is good news. [01:03:35] (39 seconds)