“Our post-Christian neighbors need to hear and see and taste and feel authentic Christianity, hospitality spreading from every Christian home that includes neighbors in prayer, food, friendship, childcare, dog walking, and all the daily matters upon which friendships are built.”
“My prayer is that this book will help you let God use your home, apartment, dorm room, front yard, community gymnasium, or garden for the purpose of making strangers into neighbors and neighbors into family. Because that is the point—building the church and living like a family, the family of God.”
Rosaria Butterfield
So, we are building this ‘intentionality’ about our gospel interactions, simply using the summer as a time when people are more available, outside more, and generally more disposed to interaction.
We are trying to THINK a little more intentionally—so that we see opportunities all around us to get to know our neighbors.
We are trying to PRAY a little more intentionally—taking what we see, hear, and learn from our interaction to pray for gospel opportunities.
And now let’s add:
Intentional Item #3: Act Intentionally About The Summer & Gospel Opportunities
What could you do–big or small–to act on these new opportunities?
-Offer a meal to someone who is sick or having surgery
-Drop a card of encouragement in the mailbox or at the door
-Follow up on details of something a neighbor told you (in a day when most don’t remember conversations & just move on)
-Tell someone you will pray or ask if you could pray for them
-Offer to let a dog out a couple of times one day or help watch a kid for a couple of hours
What might the Lord do with such acts of encouragement and service?
What could you add to this list?