Calling and sending

'What is the difference between being called and being sent?

What do both evoke in me and how do I feel differently about them?

Often we use language based on our reality.

We have theology and reality and sometimes they don't line up or we don't feel like they line up.

Yet we don't wrestle with that.

We live in that dissonance and it can cause guilt and chaos and anger.

In this season will we let our reality affect our theology?

Will we at least wrestle with the ways they feel and may be different.

Think about mission trips.

How do we describe them after they happen?

Luke 10:1-16

Sending of the 72

Long gap

Nothing recorded

Missing the hard and the good.

The nitty gritty details

What if we are sent to the campus.

Work with the emotional sense of being sent. Feels hard alone 

Finally the return is recorded

Luke 10:17-

Dig into the messy in between

How does this relate to fall conference?

We sometimes treat it like Disneyland.

We sometimes think we have to put on a fake smile to cover the hurt.

But really doesn't Jesus deal with the mess and the pain.

And then out of that can come with real joy.

God helps us to experience your calling and send us as you sent your Son Jesus!

Let us come to him and identify with Jesus in being with you and going to the nations.

Amen