Yesterday’s leadership seminar was a superb experience–a men’s breakfast, morning sessions, and afternoon meeting with the shepherds yielded fresh mission and vision statements that can provide direction, dreams, energy, and enthusiasm for renewal and continued growth.
Today will be a time to focus on remembering God’s purpose and encouraging us to live out the reality of our family status in Christ. The contemporary church struggles to live out the reality of its grandeur in God’s eternal purpose. The church tends to live monochromatically–living out the reality of only one of the spiritual dynamics of integrated Chrisitan lives. God’s intent is that we Christians oscillate through the spiritual relationships of our life in abundant living, but our tendency is to live more narrowing, at times focused on spiritual realities, at times focused internally on the life and activities of the church, and sometimes focused externally. When these three dynamics are combined, they empower one another and bring us into abundant, fulfilling, lives of integrity and healthy relationships.