4. Prayer is very important. If you find yourself on many business trips throughout the year, make an effort to press pause on your favorite podcast sermon and simply pray. Pray for your wife, your kids, your neighbors, elders, deacons, your larger church family, your city, your state, your country, the world, etc.
5. You may not be able to be at all the neighborhood BBQs this summer because you are opening a new restaurant or closing a major deal in another state, but do not let this be an excuse for not living on mission in the everyday life. Your life just looks a little different than the person who works a 9-5 job at the bank down the street. You will get to work with people of influence so be ready and willing to use every opportunity at work to live on mission. Living on mission does not mean you’ll passing out Bible tracts before a business acquisition meeting. Jesus came to serve, not be served. Use this truth as your foundation for making decisions in your job or business.
Be upfront with your family, missional community and church leadership about how much time you are going to be able to invest and how you plan on using these five things (among other things) to support the work that God is doing in your church family. Communication is key.
If little or nothing is communicated, you may end up feeling guilty for not doing what everyone else is doing. You may become upset with your church family for not understanding, and the church will wonder why this person is not all in. However, if you clearly communicate what you are going to do, why you are going to do it, and when you will do it, there will be less room for a mess.
