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2 Ways Christmas Mobilizes Missional Living ALL YEAR LONG

What’s one of your favorite Christmas memories?  Please comment below.  Every year as a child we were at Grandma and Grandpa’s house full of cousins, aunts and uncles and fun times.  There were no white Christmases, only blue, just because Grandma always played the Elvis Christmas vinyl record on the stereo that was larger than the largest clothes chest you’ve ever seen.  Every year Grandma inevitably  runs out of film for the Polaroid camera (I’m ancient or my Grandma was a hipster).   She stands next to Grandpa and yells “Will you go to the store and get some film?” Grandpa, hard of hearing, always responds with “What did you say?”  Grandma repeats louder.  Grandpa leaves and inevitably, would ALWAYS miss the excitement of bells thumping against the porch followed by a “HO HO HO” and Santa Claus, HIMSELF came to OUR Christmas Eve!  I noticed always wore shoes JUST like my Grandpa!  The excitement faded out and I always would find myself looking at the manger scene to the side of the excitement. This scene imparts two breakthroughs in my life and my daily missional living:

  1. God mobilized His missional living be becoming among us. In fact, on earth, as Jesus, He received a name that describes his missional living to you: “Look! A virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son, And they will call him, Emmanuel.” (‭‭Matthew‬ ‭1:23‬ ‭CEB‬‬). Emmanuel means “God with us.”  What love! God went through extreme measure to be with you.  He expresses His love for people He calls out by proclaiming “I am with you”.  God expressed  this to Abraham and Isaiah when He called them into their personal ministry.  Jesus expressed this to you as His disciples the day He commissioned you in your missional living: “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:19-20 NASB). This is why we are passionate in Mobilize Ministries to intentionally meet or “be with” people we know in in everyday life replicating the life of Jesus: “The twelve were with Him,” (Luke 8:1)
  2. God mobilized His missional living becoming a baby, the utmost form of vulnerability and weakness.  He was enthroned in Heaven with all praise directed toward Him and incomprehensible power that made heaven, earth and YOU at His fingertips.  Existence does not get any more comfortable than this.  Yet, God mobilized His missional living by subjecting Himself to be what humans view as the weakest, a baby. Wrapped in the weakness of my Cerebral Palsy and old orthopedic metal legged braces, this scene gave me comfort.  God became weak to start His journey to the cross, where yet He’d become weak and vulnerable again: “For He was indeed crucified in weakness”. (2 Corinthians 13:4).
    [tweetable author=”@toddlollar”] God mobilized His missional living to you by becoming weak and vulnerable.  Your weakness and vulnerability through your missional living touches people in your life with the love of Jesus. [/tweetable]
Experience newness is what God has already given you.  You have your life.  Deep, huh?  You have people in your life. [tweetable author=”@toddlollar”]CHRISTmas your missional living every day of the year by being among family and friends intentionally even if it means becoming vulnerable and weak replicating God’s ministry toward you and me.[/tweetable] Please continue the conversation below about specific ways you can Christmas your missional living everyday of the year.

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4 Ways You Can Join the “Mobilize Your Missional Life” Launch Team

We are celebrating the favor God has shown through our strategic partnership with YouVersion! After reaching millions through the “Guided Scripture of the Day,” we have seen a massive shift in our global reach. We are thrilled to see 21,000 followers on our brand-new page; simply search “Mobilize Ministries” in the app to join us. We also ask that you join our Facebook group. and invite all your friends to join the movement there! If you follow us on the app now, you’ll be alerted the moment my new 5-day devotional, 5 Keys to Experiencing God in Trauma, is released!

The finish line is finally in sight. After years of prayer, writing, and refining, my new book, Mobilize Your Missional Life, is officially set to release on September 1, 2026. This book is more than just words on a page; it is a battle cry for every believer to move from missional paralysis into a thriving, Jesus-shaped influence. Leaders across the country are already catching this fire. Michael Miller (founder of UPPERROOM), who wrote the foreword, notes that this book helps bridge the gap between Sunday worship and Monday witness. Al Robertson of the Unashamed podcast recently shared, “I don’t know of anyone as passionate about sharing Jesus as Todd Lollar. This book is simple, relatable, and most of all, doable.”

We are looking for 100 dedicated Kingdom partners to join our official Launch Team. We mobilize missional living because how, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? This question from Romans 10:14 is why we exist. As Leonard Sweet noted, this book turns every coffee cup, commute, and conversation into contested territory where heaven refuses to stay polite. If you have a heart to see people reached in your daily existing spheres of influence, here are the four keys of advancement you can use to help us launch this movement:

1. Join the Inner Circle Email List

The first step in any mission is communication. When you join the Launch Team, you’ll receive an impartation of exclusive updates, early excerpts, and specific prayer requests. This divine order of communication ensures we are all aligned as we declare the goodness of God and ensure the message reaches the “Joes” and “Zacchaeuses” in our communities who are waiting for a spiritual breakthrough.

2. Invite Your Friends to Our Facebook Group

Missional living is about bringing people into a shared Kingdom reality. We are asking our Launch Team to intentionally invite their entire digital sphere of influence to our Mobilize Ministries Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/mobilizeministries. By bringing your friends into this community, you empower them to find encouragement and resources to walk in their own calling. This simple invitation can be the catalyst for a massive shift in someone’s spiritual journey.

3. Become a Digital Messenger

Missional living is about being visible where people already are. We ask our Launch Team members to post regularly on social media about the book. By sharing your own “God-stories,” you help create a digital fragrance that exposes the Devil’s schemes and offers a true alternative to demonic distractions. Your posts are the “feet” that bring the good news to a crowded internet, allowing you to walk in your calling as a digital influencer for the Kingdom.

4. Write an Amazon Review on Release Day

In the modern world of publishing, reviews are the social proof that help a book be discovered by strangers. We are asking every member of the 100-person team to commit to writing an honest review on Amazon during release week. This act helps the algorithm mobilize the book to those searching for hope, ensuring they find the anointing they need to change their perspective and experience a breakthrough in their missional life.

Are you ready to help me mobilize the world for the mission of Jesus? Click Here to Sign Up for the 100-Person Launch Team When signing up via the contact page, please provide your name, email address, and phone number so we can officially add you to the team!

2026 Vision Progress: We’ve already welcomed 3 new givers toward our 2026 goal of 26 partners and 26 events—only 23 to go! If you join us as a monthly partner (whether $5 or $200 a month), you will receive a signed copy of Weak Is The New Strong now and a signed copy of Mobilize Your Missional Life before it even releases! Partner with us here.

To book an event for your church or small group, contact me here or email me at todd@mobilizeministries.com.