Do you think of eating as a social or spiritual activity? If you are eating with other people it can be both. Consider the Bible accounts of my teaching opportunities. How many occurred while I was a dinner guest at someone’s house, while dinner was being prepared, while I fed thousands who came to hear me, while I prepared bread and fish for my disciples on a seashore? Enough that I was accused of being a glutton and a drunk. Eating provides opportunities for human encounter and engagement. If you look for a  spiritual encounter along with the human encounter you will find it and you can partake of the bread of life when you break bread with others. 

What sort of incentive structure do you think is most effective in getting results from people? Generous rewards for doing the right thing and severe discipline for errors? This is conventional wisdom but my word says that it is my goodness that leads people to repent. I am looking for more than superficial or temporary changes. In your own experience can you confirm that that was the way I dealt with you? I have called you to take part in the Great Commission. Do you think the same methods that I used on you will be effective for you to use on others? Love your enemies for in so doing you shall heap coals of fire on their heads. 

Do you see yourself as a tumbleweed? This unusual plant when it is grown breaks free from its connection to the ground, and its round shape allows the wind to roll it across the open plains. Using this terminology to refer to a person is not considered a compliment because it implies aimless drifting. Yet my word describes my Spirit as wind that you don’t know the source or destination of. It also teaches you to be led by the Spirit. You should get a positive connotation from combining these concepts. Be available to move when the wind of the Spirit blows, and don’t judge those who appear to be drifting, for they may be led by the Spirit. 

Have you heard of seeker-friendly churches? My word refers to seekers, but this term implies something else. It means those who are casual or tentative in their search. The seekers mentioned in my word are understood to be pilgrims and sojourners, moving forward even as they wander, and never looking back. There is an implied full commitment to continue on despite hardships and loneliness and weariness, for what they seek is not of this world, even as I am not of this world. Does this sound discouraging? Doesn’t my word promise that if you seek you will find? It promises that if you seek me you will find me if you seek for me with all your heart.