Sitting here at Creation Films working with the team on my promo for the conference and just in wonder at Gods blessing!
I mean how did I get to this place? Nick is in Christchurch recording a professional voiceover. Matt is in the office next to me doing the creative media to go with it. Jonathan is sponsoring this work for me. How did I suddenly become surrounded by such talented people and why are they helping me?
God is bringing together like minded people to advance His Kingdom. That's the key. My vision is no greater than anyone else's. My popularity is not so great that people are banging at the door trying to assist me on what I'm doing, far from it. But resources and people are coming together, from different church flows and even the unsaved, as God orders the steps.
When we get the courage to look outside our churches, get secure enough to stop protecting what we have and start looking for what we COULD HAVE when we co-labour with God then there is no end to the possibilities. Nothing is impossible with God!
But you have to be courageous to let go, to operate outside the controls and protectionism of our churches.
At Horizon church, God tapped our lead pastor Tim Stevenson on the shoulder and politely asked "do you mind if I build my church!" It is His church and He promises to build it - not us, not our preaching and programs - it's actually God that does the building.
So what are we supposed to do? We meant to find our passions and start releasing, start advancing God kingdom into our spheres of influence. The are many big words and descriptions of this - spheres of influence, the 7 mountains - but they all boil down to our inheritance. We are sons and daughters of God and we have an inheritance NOW on the earth that we are meant to be taking and enjoying!
It's funny that when you take away the focus on church most Christians (including leadership) would be left dumbfounded and without a job. Why? Because our purpose is not to build and maintain the church but to build and advance Gods kingdom! It's time we started that journey!
We are the church - not the building or the organised meetings! We need the church to equip, heal, release us and for our "family" but the real church, the one Jesus launched is out there in the world! Everywhere we place our feet is where Gods kingdom should be!
So back to my little conference. It's not the greatest idea in the world, but for me it is because God planted it in my heart and told me to do it. These amazing guys supporting me could be doing heaps of better things but God has placed a kingdom heart in them so that we find ourselves working together. Across church boundaries, across age differences, across faith levels - but with one heart, one mind and one God!
I love this kingdom journey! I love meeting with and working with Kingdom hearted people! I love my God who intended that it should be this way.
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