How can we carry our Sunday confidence into Monday morning?
by Ken Benjamin, Christian Today:
We’re just about to reach the end of Lent. This season has never been a biblical mandate – and growing up, my church didn’t particularly consider it to be a big deal. But I’ve since learned to appreciate the habit of repeatedly forgoing something in the lead-up to Easter, the most significant event in history. It helps me make space to reflect, connect with God, and prepare to live out my faith in the world.
And that opportunity is deeply important, because, in truth, many of us don’t feel confident enough to do that. We don’t find it easy to carry our Sunday faith-confidence into a Monday morning.
In its ‘Talking Jesus’ report last year, the Evangelical Alliance found that 75 per cent of Christians accept it’s our responsibility to talk to non-Christians about Jesus. But, in the same report, more than 50 per cent of the Christians surveyed believed that others were better suited at doing this than they were. Think about it briefly, and you’ll realise this is a statistical impossibility. If most of us think that the rest of us can do better, we can’t all be right.
Being a messenger of the gospel is only one aspect of living out our faith. As Christians, we’re also called to model godly character, make good work, minister grace and love, mould culture, and be a mouthpiece for truth and justice. This is the ‘6M’ framework, developed by the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC) to help Christians see how God is working through us, right where we are. And that’s LICC’s vision: that Christians would be confident to live fruitfully and faithfully with Jesus on their frontlines – the places where we live, work, and socialise.
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