We are still at The Navigators’ 2:7 Jubilee Conference in Frisco, Texas. It’s been a great time of seeing old friends, making new ones, and celebrating the 50-year anniversary of The Navigators’ disciple-making tool, the 2:7 series, sometimes called the In God’s Family series. The original developer, my friend Navigator Ron Oertli who is now in his 80s, is here.

Friday night, Mike Treneer, International President of The Navigators from 2005 – 2015, spoke to us about Missional Living that advances the gospel in a fallen and chaotic world. Here’s a highlight: he said something like…

Do you get discouraged that we’re not farther along? Remember the weeds in the field. “An enemy has done this…Don’t pull the weeds!” We’re not called to mess with the weeds. God wants us to work on the wheat. – Mike Treneer

Why do we get upset about the fallenness and chaos of the world? We should expect that and not get derailed by it. In the meantime, continue with what God has asked us to do: make disciples.

And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, “Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?” He said to them, “An enemy has done this.” So the servants said to him, “Then do you want us to go and gather them?” But he said, “No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. Let both grow together until the harvest…” (Matthew 13.27 – 30, ESV)

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations… (Matthew 28.18, 19, ESV)