Most of life does not feel like it matters very much. Days blur together, you do the same things, talk to the same people, manage the same pressures, and move on to tomorrow. Even faith can settle into something familiar which can quietly shape how you see yourself. That tension is often when you start asking yourself how God uses ordinary people, if He does at all. "If God has a plan for the world, it must involve people who feel more gifted and more confident than me." But, the early Christian movement did not start that way.

At the beginning, it was small and unimpressive. It was a group of people gathering in ordinary rooms, holding onto the belief that Jesus had risen from the dead and that it somehow changed everything.

Years later, when the message of Jesus reached a city called Thessalonica, something unexpected happened. Opposition showed up almost immediately and it wasn’t directed at the “preacher”, it came at a man named Jason.

Jason had been following Jesus for only a few weeks. He was a regular or what he himself would have probably considered, insignificant. All we know is that he believed the message and opened his home to other believers. That ordinary decision was enough to put him in the middle of public tension and personal risk because of his faith in Jesus. When the crowd shouted that Jesus followers were “turning the world upside down,” they were not talking about someone with influence. They were talking about ordinary people whose lives had shifted around a new center (Acts 17:6).

That detail is easy to miss.

Jason did not seem to be trying to make a statement and he was not attempting to disrupt his city. He simply lived as if Jesus actually mattered. Not because he wanted attention, but because sincerity had a way of showing up.

This same pattern shows up again and again in the earliest days of the church. People gathering, sharing meals, praying, learning, and opening their lives to one another. Just steady devotion to simple practices that created space for God to work over time (Acts 2:42–47).

Paul later wrote that the faith of these early believers became known without them trying to make it known at all (1 Thessalonians 1:8). Their lives spoke before their words did.

So, maybe the issue is not whether God wants to use your life. Maybe it is whether your life is available enough for Him to do it. Ordinary faith, lived honestly, still has a way of being noticed.