{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 134 - I'm Sending You","description":"You can find show notes for this episode at https:\/\/transformingmission.org\/134 Read John 20:20-22  Reflect God is a missionary God. To be a follower of Jesus is to continue in God\u2019s mission in loving the world. The resurrection is not an individual and private religious experience. It is a corporate reality that involves a mission to the world. To be sent by God into the world is an extension of God\u2019s sending of Jesus. As Jesus followers, we are incorporated into God\u2019s mission. Just as Jesus was sent, we are sent as part of God\u2019s mission.  As a missionary God, God not only sends us but God comes to us. Here is another reference to \u201cthe Word became flesh and dwelt among us.\u201d God has come to us in love.  And just as God has come to us, we go, sent by God, filled with God\u2019s love, to love one another, to love our neighbors, to love our enemies, to love as God has loved us. This is our mission. So, God\u2019s mission is not at our initiative. It is not at the initiative of the church or at the approval of Jesus followers.  It is not even carried out in our own power and insight.  Because it is God\u2019s mission, we are empowered by the Holy Spirit that guides and energizes us. Because it is God\u2019s mission, we are filled with God\u2019s love to the point that we love as Jesus loved. If you believe that God is a healing, feeding, caring, serving, dying God, then that is your mission. That is how you will live your everyday life. Respond Today, how will you introduce and invite the people around you, with whom you interact, to become Jesus followers?   Consider making an intentional shift from thinking about being a Christian, as a program to be accepted, to living as a person who reflects God\u2019s love through acts of care and kindness. Be a person of grace.  Live today in such a way that the people around you want to be like you.  Return At the end of the day, reflect upon the scripture and your interactions of the day.  With whom do you reflect God\u2019s love through acts of care and kindness? Pray O God, thank you for all the people you put into my life today.  And thank you for giving me opportunities to share your love with care and kindness. I am especially grateful that you are helping me become more who you created me to be in and through the people you are giving me to love. Help me focus my eyes more upon Jesus, so I may recognize you more often in the people I meet along the way. Amen. ","author_name":"Transforming Mission Podcast with Tim Bias & Sara Thomas","author_url":"https:\/\/transformingmission.org\/","html":"