My ambition has always been to preach the Good News where the name of Christ has never been heard, rather than where a church has already been started by someone else. 

I have been following the plan spoken of in the Scriptures, where it says, "Those who have never been told about him will see, and those who have never heard of him will understand."

In fact, my visit to you has been delayed so long because I have been preaching in these places.

Romans 15:20-22 NLT

Paul is crystal clear about his call, his mission. A little further on he places an expectation on the audience of this letter, the church in Rome, to fund this mission.

What about me?

If I don't have this big crystal clear mission, does that make me some kind of second rate Christian?

We aren't all Paul.

We can't be.

Paul needed the ordinary, everyday Christians, and never said "be like me".

His call was to love.

To really love.

To take risks in loving others, in looking for ways to accept rather than exclude, in looking for ways to make others fit in and belong.

Love that sees the Zacaheus's of the world.

Love that goes out of it's way to meet the lonely person at the well.

Love that lives and acts in the small, the unseen, the unacknowledged.

Where do I get to love others today?

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