God’s strategy, since the beginning of history, was to have his people bless the world. What does that look like in practice? How can we encourage one another to be a blessing to those around us without adding undue guilt or unrealistic demands? Over the next five weeks, we are going to look at a simple model that empowers us to live out our faith in authentic ways. It is about being good news and sharing good news with people, and restoring our neighbourhoods back to God’s dream for them. The invitation and the strategy is called BLESS. It’s a strategy that involves us praying for people, listening to them, sharing meals together, blessing others through service and learning to have conversations where we share with others what God has done and still continues to do in each of our lives today.