Missional Zeal (OUT)
1. Intentional mission, once a month. Our MC plans at least one explicitly mission-oriented activity per month. Sometimes it’s a prayer walk, other times it’s a game night at a homeless shelter for women and children, other times it’s kickball in the park to invite neighbors to … the important thing is keeping a foot on the “mission gas pedal” because our overwhelming tendency is to turn inward.
2. OUT focus at MC gatherings. We try to constantly bring our focus back to an outward posture in our MC gatherings, whether it’s by training people practically in evangelism or recognizing “people of peace,” or by going for a quick prayer walk around the neighborhood, or by simply having a brief time of explicitly outward-focused prayer, or by having people share stories of breakthrough in evangelism or loving their neighbors.
Those are the basic rhythms it seems we’ve attempted to create. What kinds of imitatable rhythms have you sought to implement in your disciple-making efforts?