As I mentioned last week, Francis Chan really worked our whole team with his talk at Willow Creek. So today we continued our conversation as a team.
After some pancakes and bacon, prayed for a while and then talked about what the talked did in each of us. For me personally, it really spoke more to my own spiritual life than a corporate thing. Basically, I felt like there are things in my life (discipline, sarcasm, etc) that if I allowed God to change and I opened my hands in full surrender, then there is no way I could get the glory…only God.
Ultimately, as a team, we realized that we can want more and talk about more of God and desire more, but unless we are each individually praying to that end and daily for our services and congregation, then we can desire all we want, but not expect God to have to show up. We must pray to that end.
My questions for you are these:
1. Are you praying daily for your service, church, volunteers, etc.?
2. What are the areas of your life that if God used his Holy Spirit to change, would only God get the glory?
I attended the conference with our service planning team, and all week we have not been able to get away from that talk. There is such a power to complete surrender, and changed lives is the result of a supernatural work only GOD could be behind. I commit to agree and prayer and believe that our services will be full of GOD moments where man is not the focus and God begins to work deeply.
I haven’t even heard the talk but I’m challenged but by your thoughts on it. I often feel like I walk a fine balance between my own desires and plans and those leadings from God’s Spirit.
Thanks for the challenge bro.