Called my friend from Michigan this morning to let him know that we
slept with our windows open last night. This morning it was 53 degrees
in Arizona and 3 degrees in Michigan. I love this place.
I'm
thinking about people who are involved in the Kingdom Project and don't
even know it. I read our team a great story this week about an editor
at Sports Illustrated who started a program called Nothing but Nets. Basic
idea is that you donate $20 to purchase a mosquito net for someone in
Nigeria, Africa. He made the need known and over 17,000 people donated
$1.2 million dollars to purchased over 150,000 mosquito nets. This
represents a significant impact for the challenge of malaria which
claims the lives of 3,000 people every day.
So I've been
thinking about how to engage more people in the Kingdom Project of
restoration, even if they don't know or follow Jesus. Or how do we
partner with those not in the Kingdom to use their resources, passions,
networks, and expertise to bring about restoration? Biblical history
gives us examples of how God uses those who don't follow or honor him,
to accomplish his purposes.
Maybe the church would be better
served in accomplishing it's mission if we stepped outside our fortress
mentality to engage those fulfilling the Kingdom agenda, who don't even
know the King!
Wholeness,
ted