What is your orientation?

Who are the unchurched people you rub shoulders with on a regular basis? How will you cultivate redemptive relationships with them?

What prevents you from effectively building relationships with unchurched people?

Does you church keep you and your members too busy to develop relationships with the unchurched? If so, how can that change?

At what stage in the process of trusting in Jesus Christ are those people with whom you are developing a relationship?

How can you help your Christian friends to build relationships with pre-Christians? In what ways are you helping new converts reach their network of friends, relatives and associates?

I found these questions in one of my blogs I subscribe to. In one way I am encouraged by them and the intentionality they expose but in another way I am troubled when I put them in juxtaposition with Rob Bell's observation that loving people has no agenda other than love. Motivation is an important reason and measure for why you or I are doing things.

The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart. 1 Samuel 16:7