A Season of Building Models

A Season of Building Models

”Change”, “shift”, “transition”, “new”...words we commonly use to describe the process of what the Spirit is doing to mature us and advance us into His purposes. This process honors the past by carrying forward the wisdom and revelation gained in that season.  It honors the present passion and prophetic insight alive and vibrant in the church ,and it honors and values the future with the understanding that the Kingdom of God always advances in history.

These past two weeks have been full of discussions with leaders about a season that we are in and a season we are entering more fully....I believe it is a season of building models....How many have built models in the past? Cars, airplanes, ships, etc. Here are a few observations about this process.

- Building a model will teach you patience....I was a kid before superglue was invented. The glue we used was always, in my estimation, way too slow

- I rarely waited for the parts to dry to continue.

- Building a model will teach you to read and follow directions.....that’s tough.

- Building a model will teach you that there is a design to follow and it was fashioned by a Designer. If you did not follow the design of the designer then parts would always be out of alignment... some of my models looked like they had already been in a wreck!

 
What type of models am I talking about?  If the church is to lead in the culture and become those who carry the anointing to be “repairers of the breach” called to restore “ruined cities” we better have a plan...a model of implementation.

We live today, in what my friend Ron Feathers says, in a “target rich environment.” There are broken people and broken things everywhere.  As Lance Wallnau pointed out so beautifully on Wednesday, there are lots of people drilling holes in the ship you and I are on....it’s time to be like Paul and take over the ship.

So we are building models....here is one....In the past Valley Harvest Church has rarely intentionally discipled new believers or had a model of evangelism that activates the whole body...with the expectation that they would soon go and disciple others. We have been equippers, to a degree, but not disciple reproducers....but we will be!  We have leaders currently engaged in the process of building this model.

The title and theme of our April FMCI conference held here is Developing Kingdom Models of Transformation.  It will be an awesome conference. We will have five different sessions on this.  I would encourage you to take part as your schedule allows.

Be encouraged that in the midst of great challenge and change ,  new  Kingdom models are being developed that will transform the church and the culture!  This is exactly what happened with William Wilberforce in the 1800’s , and it is happening again.

Advance Freedom!


Pastor Rodney