....isn't the big question. What are we accomplishing is the bigger question....but not the biggest. What are WE accomplishing is the greater inquiry. If you feel somewhat stranded and bummed about how little is getting done from your perspective, you may want to read on.
WE are getting very much accomplished. WE includes you, the rest of us, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. WE are co-laborers. WE transcend location and time. Included in OUR work is that which Velda Watson, Miriam and James and John, Liz Moore, Max Lucado, the Holy Spirit, John Dobbs, and Mike Cope are doing as WE ARE the body of Christ. God didn't send us out with rod and reel to individually fish for men. He sent US out with a net.
Teamwork is OUR work. Greg England's work is directly linked to J.W. McGarvey's kingdom seed sown a century ago. We get things done and we never see anything work which doesn't have the WE tag to it.....really. WE have so died to Christ that He lives in you and me to develop US. WE live that way, work that way, believe that way.
There is not "my" fruit. Neither is there "church" fruit. There is only Holy Spirit fruit which always happens to come from and through the corporate US. Today, in my hometown farming community of 2000, WE are inaugurating a weekly newspaper column, Tossing Life Your Way. While I am quite enthused, it's the WE factor which makes such a breakthrough possible. I doubt the man and woman who converted me will realize the significance of this new work. However, it is a very exciting WE moment!
One of the things which really enthuses me are the brothers and sisters in China whom I have never met, and do not know, WHO are taking 50 books on the Holy Spirit sent over there fifteen years ago and are spreading the good news from them. WE have that going in the underground church in China. I believe someone(s) is translating this blog and others like it into a myriad of translations to encourage the hearts of the WORLD!
So Eric Magnusson off in Michigan and Roger Dickson off in South Africa and Cindy Ezell off in God's arms and Kyle Holcomb off in Scotland and you, dear reader, off in your neck of the woods, WE are involved in such astounding and wide-spread effectiveness no one person or team can report all the good being done!
Accomplishing much? Now you know more of OUR story. WE can't stand it as it is so much, so high, so far, so wide.....so very good! Just what are WE getting done? Trying to fathom breaks the think barrier! Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within US....to Him be the glory!
4 comments:
Terry, thanks for sharing this today. I really needed it. We sometimes feel like we are so alone. We forget there is a great big WE out there working right along beside us. Your encouragement never ceases to amaze me! I love you friend!
Thanks, Terry. You never fail to encourage. I'm sure many ministers feel alone in their enthusiasm for Kingdom matters. It isn't true. They are not alone. But we all need to be reminded that this is an epic story, and not any individual's tale.
And that "we" includes those from other denominations and independent churches as well. Rick Warren, Erwin McManus, Bill Hybels...these guys are all on our team too. As is Higher Calling...all the way from Indy.
I think we all make a pretty good team.
That is the right perspective and makes a world of difference when we try to accomplish things any other way. Thanks for the encouragement ... today and every day!
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