It's hard as a believer to know how to spend your time. How involved in the church should I be? What does fellowship look like in my life? What about reaching out with the gospel? Does anyone, other than weirdos, even do that anymore?
How about my free time and hobbies? How much me-time is ok?
I obviously don't have the perfect life nor do I have the template that others should always follow. But to reference here was my schedule this year, being that I work until 6:45pm every night.
Monday night: Bible study from 7-9ish
Tuesday night: Hang out with a guy friend, Jesse. He is in my community group at church, we get together and talk about life and what we've been reading and how things are going in certain areas of our lives. He is the first guy I've ever discipled that has gone on to follow the Lord with everything he's got. He is super important to me and I care about him a lot.
Wednesday night: A guy that once was my best friend from 3rd grade to 12th got saved a few months back, its been the craziest thing ever. He is doing really well and we get together every Wednesday night and read through Ephesians as of right now. 7 - 9ish.
Thursday night: I either hang out with a new guy who started coming to church who I know from work or my other friend from high school David who recently started coming around and is doing super well, really loves the Lord and its evident in his life. 7-9ish
Friday night: 7-10 or 11 my community group hangs out. Usually we do something fun or just hang out at someone's house and play board/card games. Nothing "spiritual" is really accomplished other than obeying the commands and principals of spending time together, loving one another, doing meals together, serving one another, etc. We use it as a time also to invite new people who wouldn't necessarily come to a 'church' hangout.
Saturday: Off work! 8ish is when I usually wake up. (I know, I'm a slob) My wife and I make coffee and read and pray together like we do every morning. Then I usually work on graphic design like I usually do before work. Then if I haven't hung out with David I usually see him around lunch time. At 3 I hang out with 2 guys who are helping lead a church plant I'm involved with. We do some planning and then I hang around until church starts at 6pm.
Church goes till 7:30 or so then a lot of people will hang out afterward and play 4-square or play games and talk until about 10 or so.
Sunday: Off work again! The ol' Sabb'. I hang out with my wife Chrissy and we get all our chores done ASAP so we can pop a movie in around 7 or so and chill. Sometimes we play music together or go out to eat.
That's about it! More specific posts to come... but I think its important as a Christian to schedule out your free time and see when you are available to bless other believers. I do most of my outreach at work or when I'm running errands. Sometimes we do malls and door to door (which, believe you me, ain't my favorite), but mostly I work on relationships I already have with people. The rest of my free time goes to believers.
Colossions 1: 28-29 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. 29For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.
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