Missional in Your Everyday Life (podcast) with Jon Hietbrink

God has called each and every one of us to mission, in and through the various vocations we have and the relationships we all have forged.

“Mission” is this: We are Sent People.

Just as Jesus is the Sent One, now the Father and the Son has sent the Holy Spirit into his people so that we too can be sent ones. All of us—not just the ministry professionals—can encounter God and experience God’s power as we are boldly living every aspect of life for Him and for the sake of others.

Our guest is Jon Hietbrink. He is the co-author, along with Linson Daniel and Eric Rafferty, of Reviving Mission: Awakening to the Everyday Movement of God (InterVarsity Press, 2024).

In this episode, we discuss:

* Every believer—not only in ministry occupations as pastors, campus ministers, and missionaries, but also everyone—is in full-time missional work in and through our everyday jobs–businesspeople, teachers, baristas, homemakers, politicians, artists, and scientists. Our “ordinary lives” are the context for amazing mission.

* The “Four Es” for living a missional Christian life: Encounter, Explore, Empower, and Establish.

* Encounter: As Christians, we believe we encounter a God who is here and moving. But what we believe and what we experience can be very different. Many of us have not encountered God like we see in the Bible. We discuss ways to move away from our cynicism and to seek to encounter God in our everyday lives.

* Explore: Since God is with us and God is moving, then God is already at work everywhere we go and he is doing things all around us. We just need to lift up our eyes and become inquisitive as to what’s going on. We talk about practical ways to do this.

* Empower: In John 16:7, Jesus tells his disciples something pretty shocking: “But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.” A quote from the book: “Let that sink in. The Holy Spirit inside of you is better than Jesus next to you.”

* Establish: Committing to communal rhythms of transforming habits and habitats. We want to live for Christ in every aspect of our lives, but we get burned out, or we just drift away. We need to be resilient. Establishing habits and enmeshing ourselves in various depths of Christian community helps us be able to keep going in our faith and mission.

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