From the streets of Pella, to the streets of Kampala, ONLY God knows where these feet will go next. I've been in a season of stepping back and observing those around me that are leading, and finding things that I would change to better reach our generation. It's been very interesting to see how much we revolve around time and how much we don't revolve around the Spirit. When in reality if we kick the Spirit out the door and don't move in his time then we have kicked our church out the door as well.
You ask why? Well it says that our words will mean nothing to people when we teach if the Spirit doesn't translate it for them. "okay well the Spirit can translate, but what does that have to do with time?" Well if you are more concerned about the amount of time each member of the service takes up, instead of seeing how the Spirit wants to meet us, we MISS THE SPIRIT! And if we don't invite the Spirit to speak then frankly our words mean NOTHING, and it's only time until our church will mean nothing as well.
Not yet convinced, well try this look. When are students the most ready to fight the fight, when are they 100% surrendered to God? When they have been at a retreat, conference, or mission trip that was focused on seeing the Spirit move. So if we take the movement of the Spirit out of our youth groups, then they to will also die.
That's a clip of what I have been wrestling with, in a world where we much please everyone and not step on peoples toes, well Jesus stepped on toes so I think its okay if we tell it how it is too.
