Being Missional, where you live, work and play

If you were at Big Creek's Vision night a couple of weeks ago, you got to hear the story of Art Rountree. God has given Art a cool opportunity to coach his son's football team. As God has placed him there, He has opened up numerous opportunities to impact the kids and their dads for Christ. Art is being Christ where he lives and plays. Art would have coached his son's team regardless of the ministry opportunities, but in the course of where God has placed him, Art is intentionally asking God to to help him show Jesus to those around him.

This is what missional is all about. Showing people Jesus through your life, your service, and your winsome words as you go about your life. God has sent us all out into our jobs, our kid's sports teams, our tennis teams, our carpools, our PTA groups, our neighborhoods and the places we do business. The key is that we see those natural places where we live, work and play as God ordained opportunities to shine the love of Christ into. It doesn't matter who we are or where God has placed us, He wants to shine in and through us.

Here is another example in Jon Kitna, the QB for the Detroit Lions. This is a very cool article of how God is using this guy in the lives of the people that he has contact with.

ESPN The Magazine: Does God want Jon Kitna to win? - NFL

Since he signed a four-year, $11.5 million deal in March 2006, about 20 Lions have given their lives to Christ. Teammates, converted or not, credit Kitna -- and, in part, this religious awakening -- with helping change the previously poisonous attitude in the Lions' locker room. Says Orlovsky, "He is the pulse and the heart and the soul of this team."