Our Dream

I sent this to the leaders of New Life Community Church today, but this is also something I believe others can grasp the heart of for where ever they may live!!

Here is a link to the Catalyst Leadership online magazine.
There are two things I want you to take about 5 minutes to do…read one article and watch one video from this magazine.

http://christianitytoday.imirus.com/Mpowered/book/vcat11/i7/p2

The article is called “the false gospel of impact” and it is an interview with Phil Vischer – the creator of Veggie Tales
The video is of Christine Caine called “passion deficiency”

I believe both come together to get us to think about what is our dream. At the end of the interview Phil says this, “God is now my dream, my deep desire not what I can do for Him.”

As we look at the dream of impacting our 3 Block Radius with an outpouring of love, let us not forget that the real dream is to be Loving God with everything we have!! If we are loving God with everything we have the by product will be Loving People no matter what, or more specifically Loving our 3 Block Radius no matter what! God has a love for all people and our love for Him will birth a love for all people inside of us!

Let me say the words of Isaiah found in his writings (Isaiah 62:1)
Because I love Zion,
I will not keep still.
Because my heart yearns for Jerusalem,
I cannot remain silent.
I will not stop praying for her
until her righteousness shines like the dawn,
and her salvation blazes like a burning torch.

I feel this same passion for our 3 Block Radius that Isaiah had for Jerusalem. Our 3 Block Radius is our Jerusalem for New Life Community Church. Isaiah did not pray his prayers non-stop alone. Instead he gathered others to join him, until God had to act!

Isaiah 62:6-7
O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen on your walls;
they will pray day and night, continually.
Take no rest, all you who pray to the Lord.
7 Give the Lord no rest until he completes his work,
until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.

I am posting you, leaders, as watchman on the walls! “Take no rest” and pray…pray until He finishes His work in our 3 Block Radius!

Again that article and that video will help us all put our focus on what matters most to God – the saving of souls!

I believe in you!

No matter where you live - what matters most to God stays the same! There are souls waiting for you to share God's love with them!