1. What is my personal focus?
2. What is our focus as a church?
3. Am I/Are we Missional or Member Minded or both or neither???
4. What am I becoming?
Answer and feel free to comment! Love you all!
-Pastor Ryan
I Was Thinking …"Becoming..."by Rev. Terry Yancey, KS A/G District Superintendant
The book of Acts chronicles a church “becoming” (chapter one) obedient, expectant and organized; (two) powerful, bold, verbal and larger; (three) helpful, noticed and more articulate; (four) persecuted, jailed, enlarged, threatened, more prayerful and communally generous; (five) purified, larger, notably more powerful, delivered, cajoled, abused and prolific in discipleship; (six) DIVIDED and then refocused.
The division came when one group felt overlooked and underfed. The church would keep “becoming” but if it chose poorly, it would become ingrown and ineffective. Would leaders allow the church to become focused on “tables and church dinners?” Would they become satisfied with ministering to the existing group, or would they keep becoming a church with an expansionist mindset?
Thankfully, they chose wisely, displaying for us this lesson: A church that maintains a missional focus can balance the need for “member care,” but church leadership that becomes enmeshed in “member care” will become less missional, missing opportunities for Kingdom expansion.
As a local church and as a Fellowship, what are we becoming? As a leader, what am I becoming…
