SHARE - Five Minute Friday...

It's Thursday night and ya'll know what that means! Before Parenthood (which tragically only has ONE MORE WEEK... what the what?) - there is #fmfparty and the Twitter party where a Flash Mob of writers gather to encourage and inspire and then write for five minutes flat on one word and link up our Brave (unedited) offerings over at Kate's place!

Here is our Word Prompt for the day: SHARE

Yep... I guess I am still chewing on the interview with Tony Kriz that I blogged about last FMF!

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I know... 

I know I wrote about how I listened to Tony Kriz in this interview last week. I wrote about what he said in the last ten minutes about how we must stop being commuters and we must start being communicators... (my interpretation of his words there!)  He talked about how we must get out of our homes and cars and really meet our neighbors... I'm still thinking about it.

But I read words by him earlier this week and oh my goodness... they are just keep rooting down deeper in my heart!  

In his book, Neighbors and Wise Men, he said this: 

"What if sharing the gospel was not so much like sharing a chocolate cake, where one person has privileged access and the other has not? What if sharing the gospel was instead like sharing a sunset?"

Yes. That.


Let's stand shoulder to shoulder... let's be observers, caught up in glory and beauty and mystery... let's be seekers of wonder, and givers of grace!

I don't know about you... but I know for me - I can get myself all worked up about how hard it is to 'share the gospel'.  I can forget that it is gloriously not a list of rules or a secret club... I can feel that my life is too small, too introverted, ...too - online... to really be making a difference!

I have felt a divine pulling this week... part of me is stretching and leaning into Risk and wanting to push away from my comfort zones... I want to meet new people and live new adventures and share with more boldness and bravery.

But I am finding in that pulling, I also have been discounting what it is that I am doing --that I am called to. 

He reminded me this week that I am not to devalue that which He has put before me to do.  

He has put me here, in front of this screen - and it is an honor and privilege and oh my goodness how I can forget that it matters.

I can forget because it doesn't always feel like sharing the gospel. It doesn't always feel like it counts.

I can forget because it doesn't compare to the way others are doing it or it isn't risky enough in real life... 

Maybe.  Maybe it isn't. 

Maybe you feel this pulling too... the strain between real life and online ministry... the strain between how it's always been done, and how He is calling you to do it!

Maybe He IS calling us all up higher and out further from our comfort zones... 

(Probably.  He probably is!)

And yet... in the stretching and leaning and standing up into... let us not forget the value of doing what He puts before us* and trusting that He is working in it and through it and all around it...

Really... whatever work or ministry or calling 'it' is - we can't really lay claim to it anyway! 

It's gospel... it's sunset... 
    it's wonder and glory... 
         and it's ours to share!

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I hit the Five Minute mark at *... but I wanted to finish my thought!

Sharing life with you,

Five Minute Fridays gives us the chance to dive right in and share what He puts on our hearts! Click here to read what others have to say about "SHARE"


Oh ...the fine print: if you don't know what FMF is!  Five Minute Fridays have been hosted by Lisa Jo Baker.  This week we start gathering over at Kate Motaung's.  FMF is open to anyone, so to learn more about it - and to jump in yourself (the more the merrier!) or just to find a linky to see what everyone is writing about today - click HERE!  The idea is to simply write... for Five Minutes flat... no editing, no deep thinking - or at least REthinking, no spell check - just write! Let it flow! We all write using a prompt that Lisa posts at 10pm Thursday night (EST.)  I'm loving the community of amazing bloggers and the creativity that flows from these magical Five Minutes!