Christ gives the charge in Acts 1:8 saying, “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts 1:8 personifies this topic as, right before Jesus Christ goes up to Heaven, He directs the disciples on a story that would begin right in their personal community. He begins with their area of Jerusalem, and then stretches the call to the uttermost parts of the globe.

As Christians, we are not called to isolation, but to be missional people who are actively going out and connecting with others right where they are with the gospel. We have noticed this throughout history: God motivated Abraham on a mission to go out of his country and his people and go to the city that God would show him (Gen. 12:1), God sends Moses on a journey to renew an enslaved people and lead them to independence (Exodus 3:8-10), God moved Jesus on a story to globe to restore all things to Himself through the death of Jesus (Colossians 1:20). And now God is sending the church on a mission to engage neighborhoods, cities, peoples, and even nations with the story of Christ(Matt. 28:19 Mark 6:7 Luke 10:1 John 20:21 Acts 1:8). If we reject this urge and continue to treat the church buildings like a invite only country club ” urging that people fix their abilities, pay their money, and visit to our church God will continue His story without us.

When you’re angry, when you’re really pissed, you see the world around you with that sense of being pissed off. And you even see, as you said, other people getting mad at you.

Interviewer: Right, there’s this sense that they’re mad at me even though I haven’t even checked to see if that’s true.

Yogi Sean: That’s because you’ve taken on the persona of an Angry Man. That’s your image. That’s the tonality of your being. This is complex stuff, even though we’re doing it from a very simple perspective; we’re going from a circle.

Interviewer: It’s a very simple, very elegant practice, but very potent it seems.

Yogi Sean: It is, because it is offering the option, the choice, to focus on Wholeness rather than focus on multiplicity. The beauty of the circle is that it’s so simple it allows for flow. In this sense, flow can be multiplicity, but there’s a sense of continuity in it all. You use the term elegance; there’s a beauty and elegance about it.

So what happens is that over time, working with the circle in fact, I would say that if you or the readers experiment with the practice, they will actually find a sense of continuity in their world around them that didn’t seem to be there before, because the continuity is happening within them.

Interviewer: Will I notice that continuity while I am doing the practice, or after the practice, or both?

Yogi Sean: Actually, what you’re going to notice while you’re doing the practice is the continuity of the circle. But then as you say, “Okay, well, I’m done,” and you get up and you’re walking around and doing things in the day, you will have an inner reflection that says, “Hmm. There’s a sense of Wholeness about what’s going on here. This is cool and amazing.”

“Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.” (Gen 22:19) (NIV)

Where’s Isaac? Obviously he was there, where else would he go? So if he was there why was he not mentioned? He was mentioned as they were going up the mountain, so what’s different now?

In fact we are not told what Isaac is doing after this event for two whole chapters. Let’s see what he is doing the next time we are told about him…

“Now Isaac had come from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in Negev. He went out to the field one day to meditate, and as he looked up, he saw camels approaching. Rebekah also looked up and saw Isaac”…

…”Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and he married Rebekah.” (Gen 24:62-64, 67) (NIV)

So the next time we “see” Isaac in the Bible is when he is receiving his bride, which his father’s servant found for him. Now, this is very subtle but this exactly what is occurring right now. Jesus has left earth, His Father’s servant (the Holy Spirit) is retrieving His bride, and we will not see Him again until He receives us as His bride.

Have you received Jesus in your heart as your Lord?

Richard is the managing author of DiscoverGodsWord.com, a non-denominational site devoted to helping Christians discover the treasures in God’s word, the Bible. www.DiscoverGodsWord.com