The same here and there and everywhere

I got to spend more time this week with Kingdom guys in Boulder County--not your typical church pastor types.

In our meeting we were engaging in a beautiful conversation about some Kingdom opportunities internationally--and not your typical conversation, either.

There was humility, there was flexibility, there was a Kingdom-focus, there was mutual submission, there was no pride or ego, there was learning, there was teaching, there was collaboration, there was excitement, there was confession, there was hope.

It was one of the best meetings I've been to.

Beyond that, this opportunity helped us to see our deficiencies here in our local area as local churches and as the body of Christ. And the conversation shifted and moved and flowed toward a 'glocal' movement. The stuff we were dreaming about doing somewhere else was the same stuff we were convicted of doing right here in this place.

I was reminded again that the Christian life should be a holistic life. We can't be or do something somewhere else that we are not doing right here. We can't be or do something at our churches that we are not doing in our homes, in our work, in our schools, in our lives.

The integrity of the Christian life is predicated on our consistency of thought and action in every area of our lives.

Are you the same everywhere? If not, why not?


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