today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer. What do you think sanctification really is? You think he's getting busy in church and memorizing verses, cleaning up yourself morally and switching your radio to K-Love and not watching really bad mood? Is that what you think Christian growth is? God did not save you to sanitize you and put you on the shelf. He saved you to send you into service. We could say it he converted you not to quarantine you.

He converted you to commission you.

Welcome to Summit Life with pastor, author, and teacher, J.D. Greer.

I'm your host, Molly Vitovich.

You know, we can come up with some pretty great excuses when we don't want to do something.

Tell me if you've used one of these before. I don't have time. I don't know what to say. I don't have the skill needed. Well, today, Pastor J.D. Greer concludes our short but powerful study in Luke chapter 14

called Come to the Table by helping us deal with some of those obstacles. He encourages us to look

at how our careers and even our dinner tables are a place where we can actually serve others,

frankly without even having to learn anything profound or perfect a new skill. That's good news,

right? Let's get started right now with the conclusion of a message we began yesterday titled

There's Room at My Table. The gospel today spreads in the world through not through apostolic effort.

Think apostles, somebody like me, somebody who works in the

church, the gospel is presentally through ordinary people who just say, God, show me how to use

my career for the Great Commission. I think here of my own father, I think I've told you his story

before. My dad, when he retired, the day that he retired, literally that afternoon, his company

rehired him for more money to be a consultant on a project that was, they were doing over in what we call the 1040 window, which is the least evangelized place in the world.

They hired him to oversee the construction of a plant, the textile plant over there.

So he goes over for 18 months with my mom and they live there.

While he's there, he rubbed shoulders with Asian businessmen

that we have never been able to get close to on any of our mission trips, doing English corners

and giving out water bottles. He's able to lead a couple of those businessmen to Christ.

What it shows you is that God has already opened the door for so many of us to be there.

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