Thursday, January 15, 2009

How to "Your Kingdom Come"

I'm onto a concept of influencing my environment with the Kingdom of God. The following algorithm emerged for starting the process:
  1. Define the boundaries of an environment.
  2. Highlight a characteristic of the Kingdom.
  3. Identify a specific opportunity in the environment to apply the characteristic.
  4. Create a catch phrase to do the Kingdom thing whenever the opportunity arises.
  5. Commit & practice, practice, practice.
Putting the algorithm to work:
  1. My house.
  2. God is a God of order (1 Corinth 14:33, 40; Jer 31:35-36).
  3. Cleaning house -> specifically -> putting dirt into the bin immediately.
  4. "God is a God of order: Dirt belongs in the bin"
  5. Get buy-in from everybody in the family to practice. Practice at every opportunity. Remind each other all the time.
Before you know it, dirt will never be found lying around. There may be other things that have to be worked on in the home, but dirt won't be one of them.

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