Good Monday MABC family,
What a beautiful day in the heartland! The weather for our area looks fabulous for the rest of the week. As for Sherry and me, we will be in the Las Vegas area (Henderson) for my niece’s wedding celebration and the temps for our arrival on Thursday? A balmy 94 degrees! We will return on Tuesday evening so I will not be in the office next week. Please enjoy the cantata and Rick Nelson’s message.
This morning Sherry and I went “walk-about” and handed out door hangers on N. St. Paul Street. As we headed south from 2nd street towards Douglas, we came across an apartment complex on the west side of the street. Sherry said she felt like we were supposed to do some door hangers there and I told her I hadn’t ordered enough hangers to do that. As we finished on the east side of N. St. Paul and headed north on the west side, we realized there weren’t as many houses on that side and so we had about 15 extra hangers. Sherry said let’s go to the apartment complex do what we can. We decided to pick out 15 cars and place them on the windshields.
Now, I tell you this all not because we are special but I began thinking about yesterday’s message I am guessing Sherry’s leading to consider the apartment complex was prompted by the Holy Spirit. Remember the first thing about being a messenger is to be sensitive to the leading of the Spirit. I was anxious to get back to the church and change the street sign. However, the second step in being a good messenger is to be available. Sherry was available while I was more focused on the task of the sign. I relented to her cue and we made ourselves available. The third factor in being a good messenger was to take initiative. We did that by finding a way to get the invites out by putting them on the windshields. I can’t give you an example of being tactful because we didn’t get to interact in the parking lot. I was able to interact with a couple of neighbors as we were walking though. I helped one with tree limbs she was dragging to the back yard and another was heading out to work and he even thanked me for the invite.
This idea of being a messenger is not new to us. Our home church in El Dorado “back in the day” was a very evangelistic minded church. I took a 12-week evangelism course that included “OJT” and neighborhood witnessing. It was a very intentional program. We went on mission trips to Mexico to help build churches and we witnessed to those in the surrounding area. You see, being evangelistic has become a lifestyle for us. And it can for you as well if you will allow yourself to become “uncomfortable” and/or “unsettled.” After all, Christ commanded us two different times to do so (Acts 1:8, Matthew 28:19).
In the coming weeks, will you allow yourself to become uncomfortable and unsettled?
Quick couple of tidbits. One, Les Pierce is interested in covering the last two blocks of door hangers but needs a partner. Would you consider walking with Les? Reply “Les Pierce” on this email to connect with him. Also, we took in a total of $2632 for our America for Christ offering. Wow! Well above our goal. Give yourself a hand!
Enjoy the week!
P.R.
Rick Neubauer
