Church | What are you prepared to do?

When I hear that question I always hear Sean Connery asking Kevin Costner that question while he is laying on floor covered in questionable, fake movie blood. But you know, its a great question. In church planting I think that the people that are involved find themselves asking each other that question. But the wonderfully terrifying thing is that God is asking us that same question. The guys that are the pastors of my church, Impact Church are young, we’re quite young in fact. Only one of us is over 30 years old! When we started it was easy for us to jump in and get excited and not take ourselves too seriously because we were young, right!? Well, Impact Church is going to be two years old and its becoming evident that the time for not taking ourselves seriously is over. We are being pushed to grow up as we come face to face with the challenge before us: leading people into a DEEPER relationship with Christ. There is only one way to lead people down that road and thats if we are on that road ourselves. But what does that mean? I think the easy answer is to just say we are working to serve people and build relationships with them for little compensation and a lot of set up and tear down on the weekends. But God expects so much more. God expects us to be challenged and to grow and to be tested and to suffer for our church, as He did… We are standing at the edge of a great precipice. We are realizing that this task of leading others closer to Christ requires us to first completely die, let our immaturity die, let our selfishness die, let our hangups and holdups die. We need to break out our low spiritual ceiling and soar above it if we are ever to expect anyone to come with us. I would love to wrap this up with the answer, with the procedure outlining how to do that. But if I could do that, perhaps I wouldn’t be writing this article at all, would I? The answer is in the journey, my eyes are wide open…