The Two Soups Challenge - Step 3: Get God Involved

"You must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. Repeat the, again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are one the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up"

Deuteronomy 6v6-8

Now you've got your friend and you've got something to do together, the next step is to bring something about God into the mix. 

It can be something as simple as talking about what you thought of the sermon on Sunday, or reading the same quiet time devotion during the week and asking how they are finding it. It could be that you up your game and decide to read a Christian book together and chat about what you thought about it when your doing your shopping, or on the treadmill if you have any breath left in you. If you're eating your tea together, just read a Psalm as everyone's finishing up, or a kids devotional if you've got 2 families together. Whatever it is, make sure you've both agreed beforehand what it is, and that you're both are invested in talking about it to one another at this specific time. This is again what makes this better gospel community.

Now this might seem a bit legalistic and restricting, especially if you've already been meeting your friend and chatting about Jesus on your regular walks for years now, without me telling you to do it. If this is you, then good on ya, you're Ginger this week...congrats! But agreeing it and making it something of a priority is important for when we get to Step 5, so bear with me and keep it up. And as we said last week, better community means you do it on purpose, not by accident (I mean am paraphrasing there but that's the gist).

The bible tells us that talking about God during our every day activities is important because it helps us to keep remembering our utter and desperate need of Him all the time. Most of us are pretty self sufficient as human beings. We have our skills and we like to make sure we can be seen to be handling anything that life throws at us - all the while feeling on the inside like life might drown us at any moment. We need an every day, hourly reminder that God is God and we are not. This is why the bible tells us to talk about the things of God when we're sitting and walking, when we get up and when we go to bed - all the day long in fact. And for that we can be eternally thankful.