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Follower of One : Missions For The Rest Of Us


A show for marketplace Christians to energize and encourage you to live out your faith every day, right where you are. Begin your day with Christ-centered ideas to share your joy with those around you. Add in weekly interviews with other like-minded Christians so you can share in their joy and learn how they make Jesus visible in their workplace every day.

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Sep 22, 2021

Without love nothing else matters. I'm talking today about 1 Corinthians 13:3, my name is Mike Henry and I'm with Follower of One. We talk about five daily activities at Follower of One. One of those, the second one, is appreciating others. Today we're soon on our marketplace mission trip.

We'll be going through each of these five. And when we talk about appreciating others, I talk about that as being code for loving others. We can't really use the love word much at work, but I want to use the words that are necessary when I was thinking about how to come up with things that we could all do every day, regardless of what our job was, loving others was one of those things I wanted to say. It's showing appreciation and helping others feel appreciated. And the verse that I'm talking about today is 1 Corinthians 13:3 where it says but if I have not love, I am nothing, but if I do not have love, I am nothing. And I noticed that I typo-ed my text here as well.

If I do not have live, I am nothing. So let's get that off of there. The key phrase here is having love for others. This is the Greek word agapē. It means an active love, a purposeful love. In our workplace. what we want to do is we want to love other people, everything else that we do, doesn't matter if we don't care for and love the people that Jesus cared for and loved.

He died for each of us. And as I've said before, you've never met an ordinary person. We are all extraordinary. We are all specially created. We were all handcrafted for a particular purpose. God created each of us that way, we want to ask God to help us to appreciate others. That's our job on the marketplace mission trip.

And that's our job as a workplace missionary. Let's appreciate others in such a way that they feel appreciated. And they know that they're special to us. It's part of how our lives look different because we follow Jesus. So today I'd like to challenge you think about this verse. In fact, read 1 Corinthians 13 verses 1-3.

Because he talks about all these things that we can do, but if we do not have love, we are nothing. Let's love the people around us. Let's express appreciation to them in such a way that they know something's different. They know that our motives are different. They know that we operate according to a different standard and it might prompt them to ask today in your workplace today, wherever you are, whatever, whoever you're interacting with.

Figure out a way to show them love. Thanks for watching this or listening to this. We're now broadcasting these on YouTube as well as on our podcast channels. And so I want to encourage you to subscribe or to, uh, listen or follow this in any channel that's comfortable for you because we want to offer these as quick daily reminders of how we can integrate our faith into work full time.

Thank you for being a marketplace minister. And also don't forget to check out followerofone.org. That's our website, where you can learn more about what we're doing and find out more about the next marketplace mission trip or anything else that we do that might help you live as a marketplace minister full time.

Thanks very much.