If you call yourself a follower of Jesus, he'd call you a missionary!

Resources for growing as a missionary disciple — personally and in your church/community

A Field Guide for Everyday Mission

Surprise - whoever you are, you're a missionary! If you call yourself a follower of Jesus, God calls you his missionary. You may never go halfway around the world. You may not raise financial support. But because of God's gospel work in you, you are on mission: to people in your work, school, neighborhood, and those in need. As everyday missionaries, God has sent us to live out his Great Commission in the ordinary, normal, all-too-busy, and even most mundane moments of our lives.

“As everyday missionaries, God has sent us to live out his Great Commission in the ordinary, normal, all-too-busy, and even most mundane moments of our lives.”

  • “In A Field Guide for Everyday Mission Ben Connelly and Bob Roberts Jr. articulate the Christian mission and provide 101 helpful and practical steps to set about accomplishing this mission. This book will benefit small groups, individuals and churches who are committed to reaching their communities for Christ.”

    — Ed Stetzer, Billy Graham Institute

  • “Ben and Bob bring to the table different perspectives, different generations, different stories, and different experiences. But they are unified in something far deeper: a gospel-saturated, Spirit-reliant, urgency and passion for God's mission, which can be—and must be—carried out in more normal settings than most of us realize. My hope is that God uses this book to open eyes, change our collective posture toward God's call, and inspire many lives on mission, for the sake of the gospel.”

    — Jeff Vanderstelt, Soma

  • “Bob Roberts and Ben Connelly have given the local church an incredibly helpful and practical guide to doing mission that will equip everyone from the seasoned practitioner to the brand new believer. It is simple and straightforward, yet it has the power to change both your neighborhood and the world for Christ.”

    — Matt Carter, Austin Stone

  • “If you find that 'missional talk' can be a bit vague then this is the book for you. It’s an accessible guide to missional thinking. But even better, it will help put it into practice.”

    — Tim Chester, Pastor and Author

Editable Sermon Outlines & Slides

We’ve created starting point sermon outlines and slides for you to edit and use for your church, training event, or group. Please do the good work of making these teachings “yours,” but also feel free to use these outlines and slides however they best fit your context and needs.

Group Discussion Guide and Video Teachings

The first time your group meets to introduce the book, walk them through the section titled “The 5 W’s: How to Use This Field Guide” in the Introduction. It explains the structure of the book and the best ways to approach it. The Field Guide includes group discussion questions at the end of each week. For your members to be fully engaged, it’s best to individually read and reflect on that Week’s content before meeting each week. Below, you will find teaching videos for each week of the Field Guide to introduce discussion in your group meeting.

Additional Video Resources

EVERYDAY MISSION INTERVIEWS

EVERYDAY MISSION STORIES

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Knowing Your Mission Field
Knowing Your Mission Field

This exercise invites you to study your neighborhood, city, workplace or community to start to know the ins and outs of your missional sphere.

Living Your Calling
Living Your Calling

This exercise invites you to ask what it would look like for your primary calling — your identity in Christ — to show up in your secondary callings — your “station in life” (the various situations that make up your everyday existence: your job or school, your relationships, your neighborhoods, your hobbies, etc.).

Sharing Your Story
Sharing Your Story

A helpful “first step” to take in getting to know others more deeply is intentionally learning each other’s stories. This is true whether you have walked with people for a long while or whether you just formed a new group.

Engaging Shared Mission
Engaging Shared Mission

It can be difficult to define a shared mission — but such definition is often less about creating something brand new, and more about discerning and discovering what God is already doing among your community, together.

Displaying the Gospel
Displaying the Gospel

The Gospel is the “good news” of Jesus Christ, the story of God’s redemption and restoration of a fallen world. As we follow Jesus, our lives will begin to model his holy and loving ways. This exercise is provided to help make the connection between God’s commands to our daily lives.

Everyday Missions
Exercises & Articles

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Why Your City Needs Missional Communities
Why Your City Needs Missional Communities

“I remember lots of laughter and tears in that community. Above all, I remember Jesus’ presence. Being part of that community helped Jesus go from blurry to clear.”

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Colbert, Comedy, and Death is Not Defeat
Colbert, Comedy, and Death is Not Defeat

Asked how his faith and comedy overlap, Stephen Colbert talked about love, sacrifice, and how death is not defeat. As a comedian, I love this approach to humor, and think it’s a great starting point for any Christian trying to navigate their field.

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Seeing the Bible Through a Missional Lens
Seeing the Bible Through a Missional Lens

But we are involved in the story of God. We have a role to play because the Creator God has invited us to take up our part in his drama. This is where the third lens, a missional lens, comes into the hermeneutical process. The Bible is not simply pointing us to who Jesus is, but also to what Jesus came to do. The Scriptures are all about both the identity and mission of Jesus.

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