Live Intentionally - John Challinor

Today, you guys, today, we're going to talk about

that exact thing, but through a different type

of conversation. And I got to be honest with

you, today, it feels like a huge risk. Today

feels like this was an idea that entered my head,

and it could be the worst idea ever. And if it

is, just be kind. But I'm trusting that God's

going to use what's going to happen to speak

to you today, to inspire you today. That what

you're looking at is a table and you're invited

to the table. What I mean by that is this side

is intentionally open and there's going to be

a conversation that happens. And I want you to

imagine that you got brought to the table today

to experience the conversation we're going to

have. But before we get there, I need to set

it up for Luke chapter seven. And so if you've

been with us, we've been looking at. gospel of

Luke, the book of Luke throughout the summer,

just going, okay, where, who is Jesus? Where

do we see him? Uh, what is he like? So that we

can just declare that's who you are, right? As

our savior, as, as the person of the Godhead,

this is, this is who you are. And in Luke seven,

there's a moment in Jesus's life. Verse 36, where

it says one of the Pharisees invited Jesus or

religious person invites Jesus to have dinner

with him. And he went to the Pharisee's house

and reclined at The table. The first thing we

see is that Jesus, who was always on mission,

Jesus lived his entire life intentionally on

mission. How do we know that? You go through

the story of his life and over and over people

are trying to get him to do stuff. And he goes,

I'm not going to do that because I'm supposed

to do this because this is where my mission is

leading. I'm not going to go here, but I will

go there. And then towards the end, they're like,

don't go to Jerusalem. And he's like, I got to

go. because it's my father's mission. And so

what we see from Jesus is everything he did,

he lived intentionally on mission. And in this

context, the opportunity to live on mission comes

in the form of a dinner request. Hey, would you

come have dinner? And it says that Jesus went

intentionally on mission and it says that he

reclined at the table. Now, I don't know how

you feel, but I know for me, When I'm on mission,

I'm like, I got a task. I'm going to accomplish

it, right? But the mission of God that we're

intentionally supposed to live everywhere we're

found sometimes takes us to a dinner table. And

at that dinner table, we find Jesus reclined.

Does that sound like somebody who is in a hurry

to you? Jesus isn't in a hurry. The mission of

Jesus wasn't lived at lightning speed. He's reclined

at the table having a meal with a religious person.

And the invitation to be on mission, the opportunity

comes in form of dinner. At that dinner, the

next verse, verse 37 says, a woman in that town

who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was

eating at the Pharisee's house. So she came there

with an alabaster jar of perfume. She stood behind

him. at his feet weeping. She began to wet his

feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with

her hair, kissed them, and poured perfume on

them. When the Pharisee who had invited him saw

this, he said to himself, if this man were a

prophet, he would know who was touching him and

what kind of woman she is, that she is a sinner.

So the two Two people that entered the dinner

party where Jesus is intentionally on mission

also have a mission of their own. The religious

man, he's there and he's analyzing. He's looking

at what is happening around and specifically

at the person of Jesus, which tells me this.

You can be on mission and you could have invited

Jesus on the mission, but still missed the mission

of Jesus. That sometimes we miss, we think we're

doing things for God, when in reality we've completely

missed what Jesus is doing in the moment. It

requires that we have the intentionality to hear

and to listen. But then also what happens is

this woman enters the picture, and what we're

told about this woman... is that she comes in

on a mission and her mission is to honor Jesus.

How do we know this? She comes in with this alabaster

jar. She's there intentionally. She has intentionality

to why she's entered the space. And it says that

she's so overwhelmed that in this moment, how

do we know she's so overwhelmed? She's crying

and her tears are wetting the feet of Jesus.

You have to be pretty overwhelmed to wet somebody's

feet to the point that you can wipe them with

your tears. Jesus has reclined, and in those

days when you reclined at a table, your feet

were away, hence how she could wet the feet of

Jesus, so to speak. And it's in this moment,

in the intentionality of Jesus, that Jesus has

the expectancy of life change. And the life change

is the two people around him. The story continues

and Jesus kind of calls out the Pharisee. He

goes, hey, you think I'm not a prophet, but I

actually know what you're thinking. And he goes,

hey, what you're thinking, he goes, let me ask

you a question. If somebody has been forgiven

a large debt and somebody has been forgiven a

small debt, which one loves more? Which one is

more grateful? And then he goes on to portray

what's happened, that since I entered your house,

you have given me little hospitality. You haven't

done the smallest of things, but this woman,

since she got here, she hasn't stopped crying.

She hasn't stopped wiping my feet, washing my

feet. She anointed my feet. And a basic premise

that he gets down to is this, that the one who

has been forgiven much loves much. And the one

that has been forgiven little loves little. But

in this moment, Jesus has intentionality and

he sees both of them. Guess what? The religious

person gets called out and the sinful woman is

forgiven. And in this moment, we have a picture.

We have a picture of what it looks like when

we live intentionally on mission, that we have

an expectancy for life change. When was the last

time? You did something mundane. You went somewhere

in your life and you lived in such expectation

that God was going to show up and God was going

to do something and God was going to move. When

was the last time you lived with such expectancy

that in the moment that you were doing it, you

could hear the voice of the spirit nudging you

in a certain direction because you were so intentional

being there that God was going to move. Today,

we have the privilege of having people around

the table that are going to have a conversation.

There are people that have chosen this summer

to set aside 10 to 13 days of their summer, travel

with our Heights family to different countries,

and intentionally be on mission, set aside those

amount of days with recovery on the other side,

and in expectancy, you're going to get to hear

what it sounded like for them to walk with God

intentionally on mission and see the lives that

were changed. And so if you would, we have five

people. Would you give them the warmest hand

and welcome them up to the stage? By way of introduction,

just so you're caught up on who's where. Sarah

went to the Czech Republic. Caden went to the

Dominican Republic. Sarah B. went to Dominican

Republic. Greg went to the Czech Republic. And

Pastor Ben went to Jordan. Hi, you guys. Hey.

Hi. Welcome to the Czech Republic. Oh, no. I

think I'm dead. We have some technical difficulties

over here. Well, I'm just going to figure it

out. I'm just going to get it started. So you

all took time. And I think it's important to

recognize what the conversation is about. You

all took time, paused your life, intentionally

stepped out on mission with Jesus in that. you

all went with expectancy to different countries,

different people, different time, different place,

and specifically for the trip. So I guess we'll

just start there. How was the trip that you took?

What was it like? The trip was awesome. This

is my second time to Czech Republic, and I had

such a good time there, and I met so many people

and made so many good relationships. That's awesome.

I love the Czech Republic. You were sharing earlier

that this is your second time going. Yeah. And

so it made the trip a little bit better for you,

right? It definitely did. I got the chance to

teach English and to teach Bible to people who

are non -believers at this camp. I would say

80 % were non -believers. That's awesome. Yeah,

so Caden and I went to the Dominican. It was

awesome. We landed, and then we jumped in a pool.

Yeah, we did. Because this was our youth group,

so we're alive at 1230 at night. It's great.

And then we wake up super early the next day

to do baseball camp. Oh, yeah, we ran a baseball

camp with about 200 students, 200 players. It

was incredible. One of my friends who went, she

has a very good, she has a testimony around athletics

and sports is a big part. So she was able to

share her testimony with all of them and it really

impacted them because it's just very relatable

to them too. Yeah, so our trip was a lot of,

we spent a lot of time with, we did a lot of

baseball clinic stuff. We went and visited communities.

We did food distributions. We prayed with people.

We played a lot with littles. which was fun and

surprising. And then we did youth camp at the

end of our week, which was so fun. Something

about our youth group is we do camp well, right?

Oh, yeah. And we got to bring a little bit of

home there and just have fun. What brings on

a baseball camp on a missions trip? How do we

get there? The bald eagle. The bald eagle taught.

Most of our team who are not baseball coaches,

we all became professional baseball coaches for

this week. Even some of our unathletic students,

people, they were incredible. So baseball is

a really big thing, apparently, in the Dominican

Republic. Absolutely. And Todd played baseball

back in his day. Long, long time ago. Long time

ago, back in his day. When he had hair. When

he had hair. And so they asked like, could you

put on this baseball clinic? And he was like,

of course we can do it. And he had all of us

run different stations. And we, some of us were

qualified. Some of us were not. But what does

God say? What does it say in the Bible about

like the qualified? Like God equips the people

or something like that? That is what happened

that day. Is that how that verse reads? Yeah,

I don't know, something like that. I like how

you're looking at me to get you a verse. I appreciate

that. So you played baseball and basketball,

didn't you, at our camp? Yes, we had our own

little baseball day. I was the one that taught

it with my friend Noah, and it was a lot of fun.

They really enjoyed it and loved it, and none

of them really... had any idea what baseball

was so it was very fun to really teach them what

why baseball is such a big deal in america it's

a big deal it's a big deal apparently now greg

is it true that when you're teaching english

one of the classes you taught you taught slang

for gen z yes Walk me through some of that. What

are some of those words? We taught Gen Z slang

to people who were advanced English speakers.

You taught it. I taught it, yeah. But I have

a 10 -year -old grandson who lives Gen Z slang,

and so he taught me a lot about it before I went.

What are some of the words? Oh, sus. Cooking.

Cooking. What were some of the others? He said,

DeLulu. DeLulu. I don't know that one. You don't

know that one? Use that one in a sentence. Yeah,

use DeLulu in a sentence for me. I would be DeLulu

if I said, I'm going to be the president of Mars.

Okay. All right. I'm caught up on Gen Z slang.

Yeah, I think one of the things about our trip

to Jordan that's a little different is, So often,

like on a mission trip, you're going to build

something. You're going to accomplish a camp

or run a camp. And I feel like our main goal

there is to really love the team that is there,

that is boots on the ground. They'll experience

something called compassion fatigue because their

job in loving the refugees is really they're

loving the... The people on the outskirts, the

ones that are marginalized. I say Jamel loves

the unseen. And so you're just hearing story

after story of these families that are in these

war -torn countries and all they're trying to

do is escape it. All they're trying to do is

get their kids, their cousins, their spouses

out of these areas that are so dangerous and

move to a country that's safer. And so we're

there really to just bolster them and love on

them and encourage. them and let them know we're

not only like financially committed to you we're

also relationally committed to you and we get

to do house visits and visit Yemen and Iraqi

refugees and Syrian refugees and we go visit

a Syrian camp with like 200 to 400 relative like

families that are all related And you just, man,

you just, they're just people. They're people

that are trying to navigate life and trying to

have their families in the safest place they

can and to try to figure out how to support them

and love them. And I just, I love, love going

to Jordan every year. The Czech Republic was

under foreign domination for about 300 years.

And so the people have been downtrodden and told

what religion they're going to have. Originally

it was Catholic, and then it became something

else when Germany was there, and then something

else when Russia was there. And so the local

church in Olomos is so happy to have us Americans

come over there, you know, to bolster that, you

know, in an area where most people are atheists

or nonbelievers, at the very least. I think a

commonality that we have is, I mean, in the Jordan

and in Czech and in the Dominican, the hospitality

that you receive as a guest is incredible. They're

so gracious. They're so kind. They just welcome

you. Maybe in Czech, it may not feel like that

because they're kind of serious people, right?

But when you make it in, they're like, oh my

goodness, we're so glad you're here. these three

trips, like, that's a common thread is the hospitality.

They're so excited when we show up and we're

there for the week or however long we're there

for. Yeah, the hospitality over there is you're

taught not to compliment something like, oh,

I really like your scarf because their culture

will give it to you. They'll give it to you.

Yeah, so they're like, hey, you gotta be real

careful what you compliment. I love your scarf.

Oh, here, take it. Yeah. In the Dominican, the

hospitality there, they, like, we were there

for the 4th of July week and they, threw us a

party for American, like they made us this whole

banner and they made us hot dogs and they were

better hot dogs than I think they were here.

Sarah doesn't agree, but she doesn't know what

hot dogs taste like. Um, but anyway, it was just,

it was amazing. It was, it was really cool. And

they had this whole banner and they made this

whole banner and we had a whole, a big old party.

We heard when they found out we were coming,

they were fighting. to be on the same week as

us because they have a lot of missions teams

that come throughout the summer and they were

fighting to be with Heights Church. They're like,

we want to be with them. They're amazing. And

we're like, oh, that's so nice. We're silly and

goofy, but okay. Again, it sounds like relationships.

I know for all of you, you've been on the trip

twice and it sounds like relationships were enhanced

all the way around. How'd you experience from

just being in the check? And seeing people again,

how were those relationships? Yeah, so I went

last year and again this year. So going back

this year, all of them were so excited to see

me. And I got the biggest hugs. And I even had

a Czech mom adopt me as her daughter. So that

was really fun and very sweet. Which mom was

that? Gabby. Oh, Gabby. Yeah. Her son was not

so excited to have me as a sister, though. Surprise!

So that was, it was just so wholesome to go back

and just see their faces lighten up when they

see all of these familiar faces. Yeah, I think

one of the things that's really wild is we go

for 10 days or 13 days. you're talking out of

365 days a year and the impact it has on not

only them, but also I think us as individuals

that I'm just, I had a riot who's a Jamel's right

-hand man. And he like pulls me to the side halfway

through the trip. And he's like, I just want

you to know, like, I consider you a genuine.

close friend of mine. And I was like, man, I

feel the exact same way. I didn't want to be

a weirdo and say it and you not say it back to

me. So, but you like feel this connection because

I think you both have something united and the

creator of life. And so even though it's just

10 days or 13 days a year, like man, there is

a bond that is made with brothers and sisters

in Christ. That's really kind of hard to explain

to people. You wouldn't think it would be that

impactful, but it is. I think that's the joyful

part for me going out and visiting like our global

partners is they're there all the time. Like

that is their world. That is their landscape.

That is their mission field. And we get to go

and carry the burden with them for a week. And

I think for them, like the gratitude, like just

talking to Jamal about that when I went to go

visit Jordan, like that is impactful for them.

But it's such a sweet thing where you, Like what

an honor to go and do that with family all the

way across the world. What is it? I'm curious.

So you go intentionally on mission, you set the

time aside, but you've all done that before and

you've returned to spaces where you've been.

So like the first time you go, everything's a

brand new, right? Like everything's a shock.

Everything's kind of maybe glossier than it actually

is. But what, so this time going back, How were

you surprised? Maybe Greg, I've heard you share

some stuff that surprised you. What does that

look like? Well, I was just embraced by the people,

especially the local church. They're so happy

to see us come back. And they treat you like

you live next door. I mean, they're just brothers

and sisters. And I had the opportunity to give

my testimony on a Monday night. After that, even

little kids would come up to me. And I'm not

a little kid anymore. But you teach the slang,

you know? You speak the language, though, apparently.

Oh, I speak Czech fluently. I learned a few words.

And they loved to have fun. And they did skit

night. And so each class... did a skit and so

we had a little check a lot of english and made

up a story and used ai to come up with stories

and and um the checks really get into this when

they start planning a skit i just sit back and

let them plan you know and it comes out really

well it's just fun yeah and just to be clear

16? Oh, yeah. 81. Yes. Covers the whole spectrum.

Covers the whole spectrum. And I love that you

can be surprised at 81 and at 16. What did you

experience? Yeah, there was a very specific encounter

that I had personally. I mean, our whole team,

it was just like every debrief that we had, it

was like, oh, this happened with the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit told me this. I saw this happening.

But one specific house visit that we went to,

we delivered food. And it was this beautiful

house with all these flowers over it. I think

we have a picture of it somewhere. But so we

like walk into the house and there's this lady

on the porch that we all kind of just walked

by. And we were just like going into the house.

We delivered food and they were like, hey, the

person we want you to pray for is actually that

lady out on the porch. And so we go out there

and she had abnormally with like her gum and

her teeth were like out of her mouth almost.

So it was really sad. for her and the words that

I spoke weren't my own words like it was God

just speaking through me and I was like I don't

even know what I'm saying and I ended up calling

her beautiful and this is like how God made her

this is how God wants her to look yeah that definitely

was a moment where the whole team's around we

you know we're outside huddled together because

it's raining and which is intentional because

it's raining. And if we were standing further

away, we wouldn't have heard Caden, but we're

leaning in and he's praying these words. And

it's just a very distinct moment where it's like

this, like the spirit is here. Like the spirit

is talking through Caden and this is amazing.

Like where, when will she hear these words again?

Or when will these words be spoken over her?

Like it was just beautiful and very evident that

it was just the Holy Spirit working. It was incredible.

Ben, it reminds me of praying for people and

what that looks like and the experience you had.

Yeah, absolutely. I think two experiences that

just really stood out was one, visiting. We visited

an Iraqi church and a Jordanian church. And you

can't understand anything they're saying. It's

all in Arabic. The writing for the verses is

in Arabic. But the whole team could sense the

presence of God. And it was a moment of like,

oh man, we're one body. Like this is one group

of believers that believe in this one God. And

that from a team perspective was something we

all felt at both church services and it was palpable.

The other one was we break off into teams and

do house visits and you have an interpreter go

with you. A team that went to a young lady's

house and had a child had been waiting on her

visa for eight years. And her whole family was

in Australia. So for eight years, she was separated

from her family. For eight years, it was illegal

for her to work, which is a law in Jordan for

refugees. For eight years, she had no hope. And

this was the first visit from RCN. So in a country

of less than 2 % Christians, This would have

been more than likely her very first encounter

with any believers ever. And they prayed for

her to receive her visa. And three hours after

the team left, she called RCN and said, I just

received my visa. And even talking about it now

gives me chill bumps. And it's just such a testament

like who God is that she got to experience the

true God and the power of prayer for those that

follow Jesus Christ. And I found a softening

of hearts of non -believers in check. One fellow

in my class said, in looking at you, it seems

like you live your Christian life, which chokes

me up to even hear that. And he said, This family

camp is a little like what I expect heaven to

be. Oh, like a little piece of heaven. Yeah.

Oh, wow. That's beautiful. That's a compliment.

That is so sweet. You looked like you were going

to say something. I got a little teary -eyed

right there. What did you see in students? My

favorite thing to talk about. So as a leader

on this trip, there were times where I was like,

well, I'm not doing anything. And I was like,

wait, no, I'm here to like, guide and lead and

encourage and just witness what God is doing.

So that was incredible. There was a moment in

one of our house visits. And so there was a full

on day where it was just a group of girls, our

Heights youth group girls, just going to visit

houses. And I realized a lot of these girls had

never really done house visits. So I was like,

okay, like we have to like. encourage them as

we go from house to house and you know tell them

hey really be reliant on the holy spirit like

it's not it's not on you like just be sensitive

to that and i remember we went to go visit this

lady and it was kind of a awkward visit not because

of anything we did wrong it was just this this

woman had these walls that were really high and

i was talking to her and just asking her you

know what what is keeping you from following

Jesus. And she gave me an answer and I was like,

ah, I don't know how I feel about that, but let's

pray and let's leave. And so we prayed and a

student comes up to me and she's like, Sarah,

can you translate for me? And I'm like, sure,

I'll translate for you. And she goes up to the

woman and she, instead of like asking her questions

about Jesus, she goes, I see how much hard work,

like how hardworking you are. I see how strong

you are. And she's encouraging this woman and

affirming her good traits. And these walls just

came down. And she starts crying. And then the

student's like, hey, can we pray with her? And

everything she said is what I wish I would have

said. And it was just very evident. Talking to

her afterwards, she's like, I didn't want to

do it, but I just felt like the Holy Spirit was

telling me. I have to do this. And it was bothering

her. And I was like, I'm so glad you stepped

into that moment to just do that. Because this

woman, like when your walls are high, your walls

are high. They're not coming down. And that was

a particular moment by that one student who was

obedient in that one moment. And the walls came

down. Yeah, I love it. How old was she? 15? 15.

16? I have not. We have not confirmed the age

yet. Well, what I love is to be 15 years old

and be marked by a moment, right? And I think

like just listening to all of you and others

that have gone on trips and like the Holy Spirit

marks us with a burden when we intentionally

are on mission for Him and we take those moments

to step out. He puts a burden on us to carry,

whether just for ourselves, whether to carry

for others, whether to carry for the people we

left. I'm curious, what are some of those burdens

that you feel that you're carrying back to home?

Yeah, mine would be loving people the way God

wants us to love people and the way Jesus loves

people. We went on this mission trip 10 days,

fully intended. And what we did, we went there

to love people and to love them well and how

Jesus wants us to. And then bringing that back

is like, how do I now go everywhere and love

people just like I did there? And go to Cracker

Barrel with my friend. And then we go mini golfing,

right? That's great. But then there's other circumstances

or situations where I'm checking out the Target.

and the checkout lady kind of scares me. And

I'm like, how do I show love to this lady when

all I want is my Skittles? But yeah, so just

like trying to be in that mindset of just loving

people and how Jesus loved people and modeling

that. Yeah, Greg, what about you? For me, the

mission trips I've been on, I've been to Mexico

too. It has caused me to, realize the big need

out there. You know, there's so many people out

there that don't know Christ. And yet when you

deliver the news to them, it is such a joy. And

so I don't know if I have more trips than me.

If I do, I want to take them. Definitely financially,

I intend to continue to support. and missionaries

and those who are doing the work out there in

different countries. Yeah, I love that. You're

talking about freedom, right? And Sarah, you

are referencing a burden you carry back that's

unique to where you were and where you live.

Tell us about that. Yeah, so as our country,

we're all about freedom, and God gives us that.

Whereas other countries, like the Czechs, they...

don't know how to be free because they've spent

so long being taken over by somebody else and

so and for us we've had that freedom for so so

long that we forget how to use it and I believe

we should all just go out there and use our freedom

and use what God has designed us to do whether

it's locally or globally to help bring others

to Christ and really be open and free about their

faith. Yeah, I love that you get to now extend

something you grew up in, you now get to extend

it into, which is beautiful. Greg, you look like

you're... Ben, what about you? Yeah, I think

burdened with just the understanding that just

because it's not my fault doesn't mean it's not

my responsibility. And I think looking at just

Jesus as the model of that, that the condition

of humanity is not Jesus' fault, and yet he took

responsibility to fix it. And so often, it's

hard to take responsibility for the things you

don't see. And it just makes me think of the

Good Samaritan. There's this guy that's robbed

and beaten on the side of the road. It says the

Good Samaritan saw him. And then he bandaged

him. And then he gave him a ride. Then he paid

for him to get healthy. Then he even left a blank

check and said, I'll cover the cost when I get

back. And Jesus said, his response was, go and

do likewise. He didn't say celebrate it. He didn't

say preach it. He didn't say talk about it. He

said, go and do it. Because we're followers of

Christ. Because we have this freedom. We have

this freedom not only in this nation, but we

have the freedom in Christ to love people the

way God loves people. To be able to experience

this, to know that even as long as I'm alive,

I'm going to continue to be on mission and do

the kingdom work of God. And being intentional,

right? Like Sarah, you were sharing that when

we live intentionally on mission, there's this

concept of waste and how we look at it. Yeah,

coming away from the trip, I think the big thing

for me and the big encouragement, you know, just

being in the position that I'm in and God just

telling me like nothing's wasted. Everything

that I do has intention. Everything that I do

has purpose. Every person that I use, every person

that I put in your path has intention. There's

purpose in all of it. And so coming back, that's

just the biggest burden I have is nothing is

wasted. Me waiting in line for 20 minutes, inconvenience?

No. There could be purpose in that. And I think

a lot of the times we do a good job of minimizing

those moments. And going, oh, like, it's just

a small moment. It's fine. No, nothing is wasted.

Every moment is intentional. Every story that

you hear, everything that God has done through

your life, everything is for a reason. It's for

a purpose. And ultimately, it's our story to

share Jesus with others. And there's no, it's

not wasted. Even getting Skittles. Even the Skittles.

But you guys, thank you. Can we thank them this

morning? The fun thing about Sarah Love, who

went to the Czech Republic, is I got to know

her at Starbucks. Often kind of my rhythm is

I'll write messages at Starbucks and there's

no reason other than Starbucks will let me have

a table for a really long time and not kick me

out. And so I had this rhythm. I would go to

Starbucks and Sarah would often be the person

handing me coffee. And I don't know if you noticed,

but she has the greatest smile and she's just

so kind. And you ever meet somebody and you go,

there's something about them. Right. Like there's

something different about them. That was Sarah.

And one day she's handing me coffee and she looks

over and she goes, do you know who I am? Which

is like the worst question in the world for me

in Prescott. Right. And I'm like, no. And she

starts to explain who her family is. And I make

the connections and I go, no way. And so instantly

I knew who she was. And instantly in that moment,

I began to reflect. Because I'd watch her walk

into Starbucks for her shift and I'd watch her

co -workers get so excited she walked in that

they cheer for her. And on other days I'd watch

her come in and sit down at a table, bring her

Bible and spend 45 minutes with Jesus before

she started her shift. And I just love that I've

watched her from a distance before I ever knew

who she was, have this rhythm. of living life

intentionally on mission. And it makes me wonder,

we were chatting this week just about this idea

of when we live intentionally on mission, everything

that we do becomes vital. Everything that we

do can have meaning. Everything that we do can

have expectation. And so we started talking this

week and Target came up and we're talking about

a conversation somebody had with somebody who

works there and just a burden that they had to...

to see them and slow down. And we realize that

bleach, you know, because you got to go to Target

to get your bleach or whatever it is you got

to pick up. That's your task. But what if the

bleach is the opportunity? What if the bleach

is just God needs you there intentionally on

mission, just like dinner. God needs you to go

to Target because he's got you on mission and

you enter that space with expectancy to give

away what you've been given. God has been good

to us. We have so much. He's given us so, so

much. And what he's asking is, will you just

give it away? Just live on mission and give it

away in every space you go to. So we sing this

song here. We've sung it a little bit. And a

part of it, it goes like this. If the Lord's

been good to you, sing. That's not bad. You can

do better. If the Lord's been good to you, sing.

Hallelujah. I think you got more. I think if

you stand up, maybe a little extra air in your

lungs. If the Lord's been good to you, sing.

Hallelujah.