The Insider

Our pastoral staff just finished reading The Insider – Bringing the Kingdom of God into your Everyday World. This book is all about what it means to be incarnational, as one of God’s insider’s, in the community you’ve been blessed to live in. It is a must read as I think we can’t get enough encouragement on what it means to live incarnationally in our communities.

The authors suggest that there are six life patterns that make an Insider:

1. Taking little initiatives
2. Praying and responding
3. Serving and being served
4. Teaming up
5. Conversing the faith
6. Letting the Scriptures speak, and
7. Midwifing the conversion

All seven of these are great and it was awesome to listen to each person on our staff speak to which one of these caught their attention on the first read. For me it was taking little initiatives with people. I will read this book once a year!