Since I’ve been here, I’ve been sharing the vision with people, and praying for someone who shares the vision and wants to jump on board. In sharing the vision, though, I haven’t really asked anyone to join me. I’ve just sort of hoped they’d volunteer.
Today, though, I was listening to a sermon by Steven Furtick. And while the sermon wasn’t really about this, it challenged me in this way. It convicted me. My vision is too small. What God wants to do through Evolution Church is so great, that I’m doing people a favor by inviting them to be a part of it. I’m giving them an opportunity to attach themselves to a great movement of God. To not invite them to be a part of what God is doing is selling them short.
I’m a part of a great work. And it’s not my work, it’s God’s. So who wants to be a part?
July 2, 2008 at 7:13 am
“It convicted ME. MY vision is too small….I’M doing people a favor….I’M giving them an opportunity…”
Ah… see…now you got it… “I’m a part of a great work. And it’s not my work, it’s God’s.”
Just giving you a hard time for your word choices. Without people like you, God could not do the work He wants to have happen. Something I heard a long time ago was the fact that we have to be careful not to make this about us and our plans, rather focus on His plans and we are mere servants.
Just some thoughts.
July 2, 2008 at 7:25 am
“So I sent messengers to them, saying, ‘I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?’” – NehemIah 6:3
(just kidding… thanks for the comments. I do struggle to strike a balance between conveying that this whole thing is God’s vision and that I’m the one whom He’s called to enact it).
July 2, 2008 at 8:09 am
Nice quote… I haven’t seen it before…
how about Philippians 2: 1-4
keeping on working…