Why bother with small things?
In my work, I get to have conversations with college students about vocation and calling. One of the things I suggest to them is that all Christians have the same calling and vocation—to love God and to love our neighbor. We talk quite a bit about how small actions matter. God can use small actions for good. And we may not know what the effects of our action were.
Sometimes churches and parachurches and denominations emphasize size and numbers. We want to do a Big Thing for God. And that’s okay. It’s not that God doesn’t like big things. God has done plenty of big things.
But what if our church doesn’t do a big thing? What if all we do is to help with a summer church school, or plant a garden, or rake leaves for homebound folks, or build part of one house?
