Not all will go, and not all have to leave home to be on the mission. Staying at home, however, is not an excuse to not be evangelistic.

Missions isn’t something occasional and optional. It’s an essential extension of what God has always been about in the world in order to bring glory to himself through us. So that’s the understanding that our local churches must have if they’re to be healthy and sound. A burden for missions must begin at home.

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The Gospel and wisdom of God’s humility teaches us to live authentic and honest the social media age. Coleman Ford encourages us to live lives that are open and in God’s light.

So what part of your life are you continuing to present as a filtered and carefully constructed image? Are you presenting a picture perfect print when behind the scenes of your soul is nothing but chaos? Is the latte art of your life just a cover for sour milk? Messy lives are rarely photographed, but they are more often the true raw image we need to embrace if we are to expose the “unfruitful works of darkness” present in our lives for the sake of God’s kingdom and our growth in Christlikeness.

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Check out this infographic of the cycle of Judges in the Old Testament.

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This week’s Monday Music comes from the Czech Republic. It’s a cover of Bellarive’s Taste of Eternity. We have a great OYC site in Prague!

From Ed Anton’s Repentance: A Cosmic Shift of Mind and Heart

Repentance is no fragile state of mind that we barely notice entering and exiting. With repentance, God drastically shifts the foundation upon which we build every decision, allegiance, affection and perception.

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This infographic helps us to learn the different types of books in the Bible through a periodic table!

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This week’s Monday Music is a Spanish rendition of Here as In Heaven by Elevation Worship. We have a great OYC site in La Paz, Santa Cruz and Cochabamba, Bolivia.

From Ed Anton’s Repentance: A Cosmic Shift of Mind and Heart

Our path from futility to Christ is not a series of incremental improvements, but a complete abandonment of our way of thinking, our old paradigm, our old operating system that accommodated the lies of deceitful desires.