Thoughts on Missional Family

In a few weeks I'm returning to my home on a 5 square mile island. Over the past weeks I've enjoyed sharing in community and life with many friends and newly acquainted folks.  Community. Family. It's a topic Jesus has been teaching me some amazing stuff on throughout the year. At this time, three of us are going back to the island to join with just a handful of folks to live on mission in the place God has us. We've been praying for more staff.And then the Spirit totally spoke into my disordered perspective.  It's so easy to start to think we need more people because there's lots to do. (Don't get me wrong, there's loads to do). But at this point this little missional community needs more people in order to be what it was saved for. Jesus is saving us-together. He transform us -together. We demonstrate the gospel and his love as we do life - together. He sends us into mission -together.  Whether people within the physical location, or folks that move to join us, we need people so we can be a family together, disciple together, be sanctified together, demonstrate love together, live on mission together, see the kingdom break through...together.  It's changed how I pray: that our family would grow so others might see how amazing our Dad is.