John 17:9-19

TEXT How do you understand sent and sanctified? Like I wrote about yesterday, I think that God sent Jesus to Earth to show us a new way to live within this world. At the end of his life Jesus nows sends his diciples into this same Earth to continue to show this new way of life. What is difficult to work through is that they were sent into the world and yet they were to be set apart (sanctified). One of my greatest struggles with students is to help them understand how to live in this world, but not of this world. We are sent into this world to be the hands and feet of Jesus and yet we are called to be set apart from it. If we are going to be these hands and feet then we have to be aware of the world we are in and how it works by actually living in it. To often we try and escape the world through all different kinds of ways like setting up our own "Christian Bubbles". When we do this it becomes harder to fully understand the idea of being sent. Sometimes we are good at being set apart, but struggle with being sent. Some love the idea of being sent, but have no idea what it means to be set apart. How do we do both?