Scripture Text: Luke 10:1-12

Andy Tobin

Quotes for Reflection

Paul Miller

Here’s my point: When the Spirit of Jesus becomes the captain, the ship itself begins to change. Instead of a professional and program-driven ministry, the saints are energized and equipped for mission. This takes enormous pressure off pastors. The entire dynamics of the congregation are reshaped around mission—which many are already doing!

Saints are natural dreamers, enticed by the Spirit to work and live in daring ways; but without an encourager calling them to greatness and pulling them out of the doldrums, that all withers, and passion never takes flight. But when it does, then prayer becomes critical, because the saints need help. When the power train is connected to kingdom vision and passion, all heaven breaks loose.

J.C. Ryle

But we ought not to confine our Lord's instructions to ministers alone. They ought to speak loudly to the consciences of all believers, of all who are called by the Holy Ghost and made priests to God. They ought to remind us of the necessity of simplicity and unworldliness in our daily life. We must beware of thinking too much about our meals, and our furniture, and our houses, and all those many things which concern the life of the body. We must strive to live like men whose first thoughts are about the immortal soul. We must endeavour to pass through the world like men who are not yet at home, and are not overmuch troubled about the fare they meet with on the road and at the inn. Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!

Dorothy Sayers

Let the Church remember this: that every maker and worker is called to serve God in his profession or trade – not outside it. The Apostles complained rightly when they said it was not meet they should leave the word of God and serve tables; their vocation was to preach the word. Bu the person whose vocation it is to prepare the meals beautifully might with equal justice protest: It is not meet for us to leave the service of our tables to preach the word.

Application Questions

1. To what people and place has God called you?

2. How might prayer become more central to your engagement in mission?

3. What does mission in word and deed look like in your life?