I get asked the question, “How can I be missional?” 

Allow me to use one of our church members as an example.

There is a man in our church who has had a spiritual awakening in Jesus over the past few years.  He works at a local plant.  One day he received an email from his boss that said, “Some of the people are offended by your conversations.”  This floored the man, because he couldn’t understand what he had done.  His boss then called him to his office.

The conversation went like this.

“I’ve been talking to some of your workers and they are offended by how much you talk about God and your involvement in church.”

Our church member then leaned back in his chair and sighed and said, “That’s a relief.  I thought I had done something wrong.”

The boss was perplexed and said, “You can’t talk like that to everybody.  They don’t want to hear it.”

He said, “Listen.  I can’t change who I am for this company.  Jesus changed my life.  I can always find another job.”

He then was reprimanded and dismissed. 

Folks…that’s being missional.  Check out Acts 4:18-21.