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Living on mission: Lessons from an introvert

iGo Global Staff • Apr 13, 2015

I do better in small groups of people. When I join a new group I tend to drift towards the observer rather than the director position of the group. My name is Sarah Arnett and I am an introvert. When given the choice, I always want to disengage…it’s in my nature. I will withdraw from any situation because my comfort is found in thought and in being on the outside looking in.

So how does an introvert like myself (and I’m guessing many others) engage the Great Commission to live missionaly in daily life? (Because let’s face it- when I go to the grocery store the LAST thing I want to do is chat it up with the lady behind me in the check out line.)

1) Know that you are wonderfully made.  You do not need to change your personality to live a missional lifestyle where you are, you need only be faithful. Be faithful to recognize when people are around you and actually talk to them! Be faithful to press in to the moments He presents you with to make a new friend or have a conversation that could last longer than a few minutes.

2) Realize that it’s not about you and your comfort.  Each time that you press in instead of pull away see it as a win. When a moment arrises for you to have a conversation, respond with a corresponding question instead of only having one or two comments and then being done. Remind yourself that you need to press in. Ask one more question or make one more silly statement. Just one more.

3) Set yourself up to win.  Join groups – go to meetings – go for a walk. Know that as an introvert this is not natural for us. We are more of the movie-on-the-couch-alone or a good-book-at-a-coffee-shop-with- headphones-in kind of people, but this is the the best way for us to meet people and begin good conversations. Check your area for events or groups that enjoy a similar hobby as you. Any platform automatically gives a little more courage to put yourself out there socially.

And if I can add a secret fourth tip it’s this; know that you cannot ruin anything. I tend to over think the simplest of encounters, constantly having to remind myself that as long as I am faithful to share my life and how God is using it to His glory then I am doing it right. God is bigger and better than anything I think I do “wrong.”

What about you? Introvert or not, how do you press in to the encounters you have daily to share your life in Christ? What would you add/subtract from my list?

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