What is the verb for you?

I am finding that we live out what we label ourselves, especially in the verb context. Some of the nouns about us we never really intended to fulfill anyway. But it is the verbs that seem to have the power over us.

I am particularly thinking about how this affects the way that those of us who call ourselves (noun here) Christians are verbing what that might mean. I suspect that the verb most often used is "attender". I am a (noun) Christian, because I (verb) attend church. Or, some may take a higher road and say that I am a (noun) Christian because I (verb) believe in Jesus. Perhaps we ought to rethink the theology of the connection of our nouns and verbs.

Let me suggest that we adopt a different verb. One that was given to us by Jesus, it just somehow has shaken loose from us in recent decades. It is the verb sent. Jesus said that He was sent by the Father and as He passed the mission off to us He said, "Even so, send I you."

The activity of my daily life changes when I switch verbs from attend or believe to "am sent". The probability that eastern North Carolina is actually going to be freshly impacted with the life transforming love of God through Jesus Christ will rise dramatically when we (the sent ones) begin to operate daily under that perspective of who we are and of what makes me the (noun) Christian.

So, what does the practice of your daily life reveal about the verb that drives your life? Are you "attender" ,"believer", or "sent"?