Second Sunday after Pentecost

Undivided Attention: On the mission before us

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It's easy to think of mission work as being “over there,” something done in a far-away place. It is good and right to support far-off mission work with our prayers and offerings. But something is off if we allow our appreciation for “over there” mission work to take our eyes off the mission that is right before us. 
 

Here is the two-fold reality worthy of our undivided attention this week. First, if we have seen the grace of God, we will be witnesses for Christ and testify to his grace. Second, we need not cross the ocean to share the gospel. We can simply cross the street. In our various callings—parent or grandparent or sibling, friend or neighbor or coworker—God provides one opportunity after another to testify as the witnesses Jesus has made us to be. 

So let's continue to pray for and support “over there” mission work. But let's also give our undivided attention to the mission that God had placed right before each of us.