STOP GOING TO CHURCH!

Change is in the air; God has renewed our vision to “BE THE CHURCH”. Our battle cry is “STOP going to Church – Come BE the Church!” I am asking God for only 10 families who will commit to being His Church. Ten families before Easter; not 10 new families, but 10 families total and that is all we need to totally change our world.

Doesn’t sound like too much to ask. I am asking for 10 families willing to become a covenant family of God to touch the lives of people who are hurting. 10 families who are willing to commit beyond hurt feelings, beyond disappointments, beyond their own selfish expectations in order to become a Christian Community equipped to touch the lives of people around them.

My prayer is God either give me 10 families committed to be the Church or allow our church to die. Our commitment is a call to Christian Community; where people matter more than programs and knowing God matters more than church traditions and community matters more than personal agenda, hurt emotions or disappointment. We desire to be a safe community where the hurting are allowed to hurt until they are healed, where the hopeless find hope and the people who are tired of the institutional practices of going to church; are free to come BE the church.

There is a fire in my belly to be who God has called us to be, a church for the unchurched and the hurting; where you can come as you are and meet God as He is. I have realized in order to see such a community established requires a whole new (old) paradigm of being the church. We are going back to the model of the first Church; the church that change the world.

We are not looking to build buildings; we want to build lives. We are not looking to establish meetings; we want to meet people where they are hurting. We do not want to establish our name or our movement; we want to bring Glory to The Name that is above all names and move where His Holy Spirit directs us.

I was almost dead spiritually. I had lost the vision. I had allowed men to squeeze me back into the unproductive mold of “holding services”. I have been awakened and I don’t want to hold meetings; I want to hold the lives of all who are lonely and broken and tired and in need of a healing Savior.

Will you agree with me in prayer? Will you agree that God will send 10 families who are willing to be so committed that the world will say, “WE KNOW THEY ARE CHRISTIAN BY THE WAY THEY LOVE!” Will you pray about joining us in a new commitment to Be the Church?