Practice Makes Missional

We’ve all heard the old adage, “Practice makes perfect!”  Whether you’re rehearsing scales on an instrument, hanging around the gym to shoot free-throws, going over that presentation for the board meeting, memorizing your lines for the community play, we all know that it takes practice (and lots of it) if you want to execute well.  As those who belong to Christ, called and empowered to join God in mission in the world, we, too are called to a life of disciplined practice.  Not to attain perfection—our status as God’s holy sons and daughters is achieved only by grace in Christ through faith.  Rather, we practice the spiritual disciplines as an act of gratitude and in order to assume a posture of receptivity to God’s work of transformation, so that we might be shaped more and more as a missional people.  In this way, practice makes missional—practice is our way of “putting on Christ” by the power of the Holy Spirit and following Christ in mission.  Through our practice, God works to make a missional lifestyle something that becomes second nature to us, individually and as a community.

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