When Jesus sends us out, he intends to use us for something amazing. Even in our ordinary, everyday lives, Jesus is working out some larger matters. We look around our church and maybe we see ordinary people, unspectacular routines, people with all kinds of troubles. And yet what Jesus sees is heaven and earth being transformed through us. Jesus calls us and sends us out to be part of his revolution to defeat the powers of death and evil. And sadly, we can’t always see it, because too often we’re caught up in the everyday, ordinariness of life. Yet in our gathering together, adult education and Sunday School classes, passing the offering plate, sitting at the bedside of someone who’s sick or injured, or taking a meal to someone – the reign of God is taking shape. God sends out ordinary people like us to be witnesses that God’s kingdom is breaking into the lives of people – through us.