Christian: want to change the world?

- Attend church weekly and get to know the other people there

- Commit by becoming a church member

- Read your Bible and pray daily

- Work hard at your job

- Get to know your neighbors and talk about the gospel with them

- If you get married, stay married

- Teach your children the Bible

- Laugh more

- Weep over sin and its effects

- Care less about the "hot topic" of the day and more about what is eternal

- Talk about yourself less

- Confess your sins to one another and ask for forgiveness

- Let yourself be inconvenienced to help others

- Spend your money on things that will matter 100 years from now

- Have more people sitting around your dinner table more often

If you feel like your life is somewhat mundane, that's okay! The world does not only need spectacular, Christian superheroes who do extraordinary things for the Kingdom. Those examples are great and we should praise God for them. But most often, God calls us to plain, ordinary faithfulness, a "long obedience in the same direction." Being a faithful parent, church member, or employee is not often filled with lightning bolts of excitement, but slow, methodical, unimpressive little acts of faithfulness. Cleaning up after dinner; doing that thing that needs to be done that no one else will know about; apologizing for the hundredth time; giving forgiveness for the hundredth time. But remember, friend, "He who is faithful over little..."