Get me outta here.

-by Christy Fitzwater

Everyone I know is a disciple of Jesus.

Which could explain why I’ve been struggling with sharing my faith.  I work from home, and my husband is a pastor.  My life is home-church-home-church.  All my friends have a relationship with Jesus already.

The church is such a noble place to invest one’s time, but I need to get out more.  I was trying to think of who I could tell about Jesus, and the only two names I could come up with were of the lady I buy milk from at the gas station in the early morning hours and of the girl I buy Little Caesar’s pizza from every Thursday night.  (Perhaps a sad commentary on my homemaking skills.) 

This morning I’m asking God, where can I go to get my life involved with people who need to know you? 

In T4T:  A discipleship ReRevolution, Steve Smith says, “Before, when I pastored the church, we said to people, ‘Welcome, our door is open.’  We prayed for people to come.  But Jesus said, ‘Go!’  It is very difficult to invite people to come.  People don’t know what your church is; they don’t know you.  They don’t know anything.  It’s very difficult to get people to come.  But Jesus said, ‘Go!’  I was wrong.  Instead of inviting people to come, I needed to go out and find them, to touch them, to talk to them.”  (Pg. 48) 

Our church has commissioning services for groups who go out to share the good news.  I regularly walk up to pray for these groups as they sit on the stairs at the front of the sanctuary.  I pray God will use them to share the good news of the Kingdom of God.  Groups going to Czech Republic, Haiti, Heart Butte, China, Mexico, Brazil, Washington… 

I think it’s time for me to sit on the stairs.  It’s time for me to say I’m going somewhere to tell people about Jesus.  Time for someone to pray that God will use me to spread his Kingdom news.  Except I don’t want to go far.  Just next door maybe.  Or to my hairdresser.  I need to find me a bunch of people here in my own town who desperately need Jesus.

Can you list 10 people you have a relationship with who need to know Jesus?  If not, where will you go to find some?