Sunday 12th July. From Unshakable Kingdom Life
Stewarding Your Influence
Let's be honest—you probably don't think of yourself as "influential." That word feels reserved for celebrities, pastors, or people with a big platform. But here's the thing: you have influence, whether you feel like it or not. Your kids are watching you, even when you're just puttering around the kitchen or scrolling your phone on the couch. Your coworkers are clocking how you act when the project falls apart or when someone throws you under the bus in a meeting. Your neighbors are quietly forming opinions about who you are, and honestly, who your God is, way before you ever say a word to them about faith.
So the question isn't really "do I have influence?" You do. The real question is, what are you doing with it? Are you pointing people toward God, or are you—maybe without even meaning to—pushing them away from Him? There's no neutral setting here. You're either stewarding your influence well, or you're wasting it.
Here's what I mean by stewarding it: God didn't just randomly drop you into your family, your job, your neighborhood, or your social media feed. He put you there on purpose. That means every one of those spaces is basically a mission field, and yeah, you're the missionary. Wild, right? But it also means you can't just coast through life. You've got to be intentional about how you show up.
Take social media for a second—what you post, what you like, what you argue about in the comments. That's all forming an impression of what your faith actually looks like. Are people seeing grace and kindness from you online, or are you just adding to the noise and negativity that's already everywhere?
Here's the bottom line: your life is a sermon people are reading every single day, and honestly, they're probably paying closer attention to it than they would to an actual sermon. They're watching how you handle a bad day, how you talk to the barista, how you treat your spouse when you're both exhausted and irritable.
You don't need a stage or a title to be influential. You just need to be faithful in the small, everyday moments—because that's really where influence gets built
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