This month my team, The Lumes, ministry is Unsung Heroes. This means we are finding new contacts for the World Race and these people are called Unsung Heroes, the people who don’t always get recognized, our hosts and ministry contacts. This month has been spent in a lot of coffee shops researching, talking, and meeting people. In a closed country it has been really hard just finding Christians, which means we have had an even harder time finding contacts. The pressure to find new contacts has brought up a lot in me. This anxiousness to be performance driven for Jesus. I dislike the feeling of having to have an exact number of contacts or the feeling of discouragement that comes from when we don’t find people. I don’t like feeling like I haven’t done a well of enough job because I didn’t get enough people for the World Race to follow up with. This is all a lie though because to Jesus it is not about performance.
Being in love with Jesus is not a performance.
Unsung Heroes is NOT about the number of contacts we meet or find. Living for Jesus is not about the amount of good deeds you do or how well you “perform.” This is all about each individual person you meet and how you can show them Jesus just through being you and Jesus shining through you. It’s speaking about Jesus in a coffee shop and talking about how Jesus has changed our lives in front of random people from all over. It’s about my team becoming more unified through working together during research and sharing life together. It’s about meeting new people, telling them what we are doing on this World Race, and answering their questions. It’s about not being afraid to share your faith. It’s about growing more intimate with Jesus and listening for His voice for direction.
Being in love with Jesus is sharing love to others.
Every encounter, every person, every little moment means something. Whether we find contacts or not. We are sharing Jesus to people like the woman who lets us come in her coffee shop every morning to do devotions, the pastor who took us to an island to visit a family, the family who fed us a feast of seafood and rice, and to the random people we talk to just trying to find other Christians or organizations. They all mean something. Every little encounter is us trying to spread the love of Christ. Trying to get more people closer to Jesus. These little encounters in hopes of finding contacts are about trying to find people so that Christ’s love can be spread widely.
It’s hard. And there are moments that are discouraging. But the little conversations, the little moments in which we get to share the light of Jesus is really what is important. No numbers, no performance matters to Jesus. Jesus came and lives in us to be love and spread love.
Unsung Heroes month is us spreading love.
“I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me.” John 17:23
