Daily PresenceSample

I once got the opportunity to speak to someone who was leading a massive ministry. At the time I was in the corporate world and getting ready to transition to full time ministry, but there was one thing that worried me. So I had to ask: “If I am in the corporate world now and the circle of people I’m around most of the time are Christians, how do you, being a pastor and leading a church, ever get time to spend time with people who don’t know Jesus yet?” His answer challenges us: “You have to be intentional about it, or it will never happen!” We can go to church on Sunday, bible study on Wednesday, hang out with church friends on Friday, and never be intentional about spending time with someone who doesn’t know Jesus.

I love the way Moses comes to Jethro, his father in law, and tells him all about what God had done. To which he responds in worship to the Lord. This is the perfect example of what it means to lead by example. God is calling the nation of Israel to become a kingdom of priests to the whole world. Even if the whole world is God’s, Israel will be his precious possession through a covenant (10 commandments). When we think about priests and their function, one of them is to proclaim who God is. Israel has been given the special assignment of being testimonies and mediating God’s identity and grace to all of the nations. It’s not that God is greater than all the other gods, it’s that God is the One and only God.

In the same way, God has called us, through our relationship with Jesus Christ, to be proclaimers of God’s testimony. To share what he has done in our lives. So that the people who are far from God might come close and experience His presence. Living a life ONLY surrounded by Christians is the equivalent of not being who God has called us to be. We are a kingdom of priests, God’s holy nation! Don’t let this week go by without scheduling coffee, hanging out, or inviting that friend to church you know is far from Him. All you have to do is share what God has done in your life!