Fully Engaged

A study in John 13 - 17

The other night I was playing a board game with my kids. The television was also on, so while we were all enjoying the game, it did prove to be a bit of a distraction. Each time it came to a certain individual’s turn, I had to get his attention by repeating, “It’s your turn.” He was playing the game, but because he was also watching TV he wasn’t fully engaged in the game.

I think sometimes the Christian life can be like this board game experience. We’re committed to Christ, and yet with so many things competing for our attention it can be easy to find ourselves distracted from living the life and mission of Jesus. Sometimes the Holy Spirit needs to tap us on the shoulder and remind us that it’s all about following Jesus. As Christians, our mission, our very presence in this world, flows from His life and is compressed into His last words to the first church (Acts 1:8).

This will be the focus of our next teaching series “Fully Engaged” based on John 13-17. Throughout this study we’ll be emphasizing the invitation of Jesus to abide in Him and the balance between the “being” and the “doing” side of discipleship. We must find our life and mission in relation to Jesus and recover God’s passion for His Son, for one another, and for a lost and broken world. This is what it means to be “Fully Engaged.”

Abiding in Jesus together,

Pastor Kirk