5-Day Devo (9.13.26 Sermon)

Here's a 5-day Bible reading plan and devotional guide based on the September 13, 2026 Sermon.

Reading: Matthew 28:18-20

Devotional: Jesus did not commission his followers to wait for the mission to come to them. He sent them into the ordinary flow of life with an extraordinary purpose. The phrase "as you go" carries the weight of ongoing movement — your commute, your conversations, your routines. None of it is accidental. God has strategically placed you in a specific neighborhood, workplace, and social circle not by chance but by design. The mission field is not somewhere you must travel to find. It is already surrounding you. The question is not whether you have been sent. The question is whether you are paying attention.

Reflection: Name three people in your regular life who may not know Jesus. Begin praying for them by name this week.

Reading: Matthew 22:37-40

Devotional: Jesus reduced the entire weight of Scripture to two commands: love God completely and love people genuinely. This is not a suggestion for spiritual overachievers. It is the baseline of Christian living. The Great Commandment and the Great Commission are not separate ideas — they are inseparable ones. You fulfill the commission through the commandment. When you love your neighbor with consistency, patience, and sincerity, you build the relational bridges across which the gospel can travel. Doctrine alone rarely opens a closed heart. But sustained, selfless love has a way of creating space for conversations that nothing else can manufacture.

Reflection: Is there someone in your life you have been overlooking? What would it look like to love them more intentionally this week?

Reading: Luke 9:1-6

Devotional: Jesus did not build a movement that required everyone to keep coming to him indefinitely. He connected people to himself, invested deeply in their growth, and then sent them out to represent him. This pattern — connect, grow, send — was not incidental to his ministry. It was the strategy. He trusted ordinary people with an extraordinary mission. He did not wait until they were perfect. He sent them while they were still learning. This should be both humbling and encouraging. God is not waiting for you to have all the answers before he uses you. He is asking you to go with what you already have.

Reflection: Where are you in this pattern right now? Are you being connected, growing, or ready to be sent in a new way?

Reading: Mark 2:1-12

Devotional: The friends in this story did not heal the paralyzed man. They could not. But they did the one thing within their power — they brought him to the only one who could. They noticed his need, cared enough to act, sacrificed their comfort, and refused to let obstacles stop them. That is the full picture of what it means to help connect someone to Jesus. You are not responsible for changing anyone. You are not responsible for saving anyone. But you are responsible for being the kind of friend who notices, cares, sacrifices, and brings. God will handle what happens next. Your job is to get them in front of him.

Reflection: Is there someone in your life who needs a friend willing to carry them? What is one practical step you can take toward them this week?

Reading: 1 Corinthians 3:6-9

Devotional: Paul describes the Christian mission as a collaborative effort — one person plants, another waters, but God brings the growth. No single person in your story did everything. Someone brought you. Someone taught you. Someone prayed for you. Someone gave you a chance. And together, those ordinary acts of faithfulness added up to something life-changing. You are now one of those people in someone else's story. You may never see the full outcome of your faithfulness. You may only plant or only water. But do not underestimate the weight of your small, consistent, ordinary obedience. God is building something eternal with it, one faithful act at a time.

Reflection: Who helped you find Jesus or grow in your faith? Take a moment to thank God for them. Then ask God who he is calling you to invest in next.

This 5-Day Devotional was generated with the help of AI, and is based off of Pastor Brian's September 13, 2026 Sermon: Your "As You Go" Calling.