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In the first twenty-eight years of my Christian experience, I learned that each Christian had a spiritual gift that was to be used to serve the Body of Christ. I had finally figured out my spiritual gift of teaching and put it to good use in the church.

Upon entering Seminary, I was required to serve in the community and begrudgingly accepted my assignment and selected to serve in a soup kitchen. While serving in the soup kitchen, God revealed himself to me in a profound and miraculous way.

This new heart knowledge of God led me to reevaluate; to pray, read, and meditate on scriptures that allowed me to see a mission message for God’s people—a message that today we lack a connection within our faith walk.

I began asking, “What if…”.

What if... I’m not the only one who doesn’t understand the whole mission God has planned for us? What exactly are we supposed to be doing? Where in the Bible can we find directives on our missions for God?

What if... I’m not the only one who had never contemplated where to meet God instead of being focused on God meeting me where I am?

What if... I’m not the only one who needed to go find God before I could find what it is I was really here for?

What if... I wrote a book about radically new-old ways of doing the gospel?

What if… we all had a 100% chance of getting to know God better?

What if... we all absolutely knew what God wants us to do and why and pursued it with conviction?

What if... I shared this message with other Christians?

What if... I could do some small part to change our mindset from being a come to me, God to being a go to God kind of Christian?

What if... we could get people to reconnect with our Christian heritage and the Godly design of our faith walk found in the Bible by getting refocused on feeding and serving others and not on self?

What if... Christians came to ask not what can God do for me today, but what can I do today for God and His kingdom?

That is the heart of a soup kitchen-like experience.