Day 19: My Circle

By this point, we hope you have heard that there are 300,000 unchurched people within a ten-mile radius of Buckhead Church. And while that number is large, in many respects it’s a collection of circles.

For example, there are many people within my circle of life who are not connected to church and who do not have a relationship with Christ. I can get so caught up in my day, my plans, and my agenda that I can fail to really see those around me. It’s easy to shrug it off and say, “Well, I’m not overly extroverted like someone else.” It’s easy to think that I don’t want to offend someone by initiating a conversation. It’s easy to think that they would presume that I have some sort of agenda, especially when they hear that I work at a church.

During this 21-day fast, my personal prayer is that I would have God’s eyes to see those around me as He sees them. I pray He would draw my attention where conversations should be started and where they shouldn’t. I pray that my eyes will be taken off of me and that I would really see those in the circle around me as God sees them.

What if all of us here at Buckhead Church had that thought over the course of these 21 days? What if 5,000 of us were going about our business in this city with this vision?

We might be surprised how fast our collected circles would add up.

Maybe even to 300,000.

Steve Giddens