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INTRODUCTION Often whenever we think of discipleship, it's this crazy disjointed thing, "I don't know how I'm going to fit it into my life. All this missional stuff. I'm so freaking busy, how would I possibly fit it into my life?" I want to suggest that we need to change our thinking about discipleship. We need to move from a mindset of something additional in our life that has to be added to one of intentional. We need to move from additional to intentional. What if God has actually given us this amazing way of seeing life that would make all of life one big huge opportunity for discipleship and mission? Everything we are already doing, what if it was already an opportunity for discipleship and mission? He has. It's the rhythm of life that he's placed us in. It's the rhythm of life he's placed us in. Discipleship is not this set of activities or classes that we need to take. God has actually built the world, and everything we're 2

about and everyone you know is in the same rhythm. It is perfectly setup already for us to live this way. I want to give you something, a powerful gift. Let me give you six rhythms that we've been using in community and once you see these it opens up your whole world. You start to think "Okay, I'm already living in these rhythms. Now I can move from additional to intentional. Now I can bring a gospel intentionality to them and join the dance with God in the way he's created the universe." Let's look at these rhythms. RHYTHM OF KNOWING THE STORY First one is "Know the story." We all have a story. Is our story a part of God's story, or are we believing a different story that's been told to us by our parents, our boss, people growing up, the culture. Do we know God's story as a story? We need to. If we're going to be living as disciples who make disciples we need to know God's story, we need to get 3

to know each other's story deeply enough to apply the gospel in absolutely every area of life. RHYTHM OF LISTENING The leads us to another rhythm of listening. We're always listening to someone, but are we listening to God? We say it this way, "We need to listen backwards through the word of God. Who is God, how has he always been. We need to listen forward through the Holy Spirit." My prayer times are mostly filled up with me telling God what to do then I shoot off into my day. But to cultivate a rhythm of listening to God and in community. That's how you get to know people's stories. RHYTHM OF CELEBRATING Next rhythm, celebrate. Life is living in a rhythm of celebration. Think about all the holidays that are just coming around and birthdays, 4

everybody you know has one, and anniversaries, and graduations. We need to join those celebrations and be the bringers of the better wine, as it were. Like Jesus was. They're going on, it's low hanging fruit. Join that rhythm, throw the best parties. The church, we should be the most celebratory people on the planet. We get to live forever. Hey! Awesome! Party! People in your city should go like "I don't know if I believe what they believe, but whoa do they party! Yeah, I'm in!" Right? RHYTHM OF EATING Next one, eat. Rhythm of eating. Talk about moving from additional to intentional. We're already eating like 21 times a week. Way more for me. If you just started thinking, "What if I was to have three meals a week with people that I'm trying to make disciples of? Not yet believers believers. I'm eating these meals 5

anyway." Let's just intentionalize that. RHYTHM OF BLESS Then this rhythm of bless. We say it this way in community "Ask the spirit to reveal to you three people that you could bless intentionally each week through either words, action, or gift." Imagine a community of people in a neighborhood like 10 or 12 all blessing three people a week. You think that neighborhood would notice? It'll transform the place. RHYTHM OF RECREATE Then this last rhythm is recreate. It's this idea of rest in Christ's completed work and then out of that we create beauty and we work and we create value. Resting on what Christ has done for us. Not to earn, but then we work. It's the idea of Sabbath. Let me tell you a story, notice all these rhythms just happening. This is a story from my life. You'll notice. Leave 6

these rhythms up. LOVE AND SERVICE IN RHYTHM There's a guy in my neighborhood, who I met. An old guy, his name was Hal. Here's how I met him. I'm walking back and forth between my house and Brother Jeff Vanderstelt, we live real close to each other, borrowing his lawn mower. As I'm going back and forth, it takes four trips to get the lawn mower. Go get it, come back, cut my grass, take it back and everything. Finally I'm noticing this guy cutting his grass and he's got one of those electric lawn mowers. I said "What if I just cut your grass in the front here for you, Hal, every week because I'm walking past with the lawn mower twice?" He says "That would be awesome! It would save me an hour by the time I drag this thing down the stairs and unwind the cord and put it away." I started doing that, we started building a relationship. We started inviting him to all the parties and regular barbecues we were having every week in our neighborhood and this old buck would come, like Oxygen bottle, this guy's 7

like a million years old, I think, I'm not sure. He would come all the time, him and his wife. I asked him once, I said "Hey, Hal, are you coming to our Memorial Day party next Monday?" He's like "Yep, wouldn't miss it." He showed me his World War II uniform. He says "I was in the war." I said "That thing still fits. That's awesome! You should wear that Monday to the party." He's like "Well, I might." Monday. Everybody's showing up. Missional community neighbors, all this stuff. Here comes Hal coming down the street, World War II uniform, Oxygen bottle swinging at his hip, bowl of potato salad. Here we go. Awesome. He's sitting there in our freaky community with people tattered up and pierced and everybody and neighbors having a great time. I said "Hey, food's ready. I just want to thank God, I want to thank Hal. Hal, thank you so much for giving us a picture of what Jesus looked like when he laid his life in preference and ease down for our sake. You did the same thing for us in the war so we get to party today and no one gets to tell us we can't. Thanks for that, Hal." 8

Everybody's like "Yay!" And Hal's just like busting buttons, he's all stoked. Then I thank God for the food and our friends, it was real simple. Our relationship went through the roof that day. A while later I got the opportunity, his wife said "Hey, I'll be out of town for a while. Would you look in on Hal a little bit? Check in on him." "Sure." So I stopped by one day, knocked on the door "Hey, Hal." No, he's not coming. No Hal. I see his car, I know he's home, he's not coming to the door. Finally opens the door, he's in his pajamas at three in the afternoon, he's like "Come in, come in." I said "You Okay, brother, what's going on?" He's like "Come in, my feet are killing me, I can't even stand." I looked down and his feet are like super swollen and cracking and dry and there's goo pussing out of it. I say to him, "Oh! Hal, what happened with your feet?" He's like "Come in, I can't even stand. Come up, follow me." So I follow him up to his bedroom, I had never been up there before. Been over many times, been over to his little pub in the basement, but I had never been to his room. 9

He takes me up there and he lays down on his little bed and props those feet up. I'm sitting here, his feet are up and I said "Hal, tell me, what's up with your feet? Man, you get around pretty well. What's going on?" He's says "Well, there's this ointment, this lotion that my wife Gail puts on my feet. But I can't reach my feet and she's out of town." I'm like "Really?" I'm looking at his feet. I'm looking at his feet and he goes "It's that lotion right there on the dresser." I'm like "Feet, lotion, feet, lotion." You know where this is going, right? So I said "Hal, would it be Okay if I put some lotion on your feet?" And he's like "Oh, that would be so awesome." So I ran home, I got my hazmat suit on, double gloves. Anyway, so, for the next couple of weeks I got to bless my brother with this. All in the rhythm of normal stuff. Just intentionally loving this guy. Hal died, it happens, and my heart was broken because I don't think he fully came to 10

know the Lord. But I've always wondered could there have been more? We showed him the love of Christ. We were in community with this guy. He was in our life. WHAT GOES AROUND About a year after this guy passed we were doing some church planner training back in Tacoma, and a guy comes to me and says "Do you know this guy named Nick in Puyallup?" You don't know where that's at, but it's like a half hour away. I said "No, I don't think I do." He goes "Well, I think he knows you." I'm like "Okay, a lot of people know me. I'm kind of a big deal." No, I'm just kidding. I said "I don't think I do." He goes "Well, I think you knew his dad. And I said "Oh." He goes "His dad lived in your neighborhood and you used to take care of him a little bit." I'm like "Oh, Hal!" He goes "Yep, that's the guy." And he says "This guy's in our neighborhood and he's a complete non-believer and kind of a rejecter of things. 11

We were telling him about this community we were trying to get together, we want to live in the neighborhood and bless people and love everyone and serve them and invited him to be a part of it." He goes "Well, I don't really do this church thing. But, you know what, there were these people that lived in my Dad's neighborhood and that's how they loved him. If this is what you're trying to do, I want to be a part of it." I was like "Are you kidding me? Is this what this was all about?" So now this guy has joined into the rhythm of the community. Let me suggest to you if you feel like your life is so jam packed that you cannot do discipleship and live on mission would you get a different rhythm? Maybe you're in some other rhythm that's just not God's. Just not God's. Just remember this, okay? God has given you all perfect rhythm to join him in his dance. 12

Bio Caesar is a church planter, missional strategist and one of founding leaders of Soma Communities. He currently serves as the Director of the GCM Collective, an organization that helps catalyze missional community multiplication across North America. He is a spiritual entrepreneur and an avid storyteller. His background includes communications for Fortune 500 companies, media production, working with youth, and extensive travel in international missions. He has worked in over 17 countries around the world including Sierra Leone, Sudan, Nigeria, Burma, India, Latvia, Romania and the Czech Republic. He worked as a record producer for 12 years before becoming a full-time missionary. (aren t we all?) He owned and operated several businesses in and around the Chicagoland area, then pastored at a mega-church before moving to Tacoma, Washington in 2004 to help launch Soma. He currently lives in Manhattan and has recently authored The Gospel Primer. His new book, Transformed, was just published by Zondervan in February 2014. Caesar has a Master s Degree in Ministry in the area of Global Leadership. His is a certified coach and Coach Trainer via CoachNet. He has been married to Tina, his high school sweetheart, for 30 years; they have three children, Caesar, Christin and Justine. 13