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…
2 comments:
The Lord has already been directing me for several weeks in this same direction. Now Terry? Is God trying to get something across to us?
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Time to look deep!
Why are we here? Of cores the quick answer from any good Christian would be to love God with all our heart, soul, and mind. But what does that look like? Can we look deep inside and truly say He is number 1 in my heart or I think of God first before all others or myself?
"Faith without works is dead"!
Not faith without works is bad, or faith without works is empty.
It is DEAD!
Matthew 22:37-40:
37Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
So as an individual and as a church
Look deep!
1) Do we love God First? First each day? first in our lives?
First in His church?
2) Do we love others as ourselves?
So there it is the meaning of life in a few short sentences. Now we just need to spend the rest of that life striving to do both.
"Dear Lord search my heart and know that I love you and I am sorry for falling short each day. Please help me to die to this flesh and put you first in all I think, say, and do. Lord instill in me the love you have for others, please allow me to see them as you do and to show them your love". AMEN
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