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God is in the business of mountains, not plains.
God’s goal in life isn’t to build a place where we can just continue coasting where we are for the rest of our lives.
We as a church body are always growing in 2 ways.
First, because our parts are always changing.
I’d argue that a church instution that’s always the same people, week in week out, is unhealthy, simply because it betrays the most basic reason for the church’s existence - to spread the gospel to all the world.
New people bring more strenths, more weaknesses, more challenges.
Secondly, we’re also always growing because we serve an infinite God who will never, ever be done with revealing more of Himself on this side of eternity.
We confine God when we limit Him to a particular style, a particular place, or a particular time.
We forget about the living God who is working through everything in all of human history to bring about His kingdom.
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These are both challenges to our gathering, as well as challenges to ourselves personally
Now, I resisted using the word ‘Problems’, because I don’t mean to say these challenges are bad.
They’re not hurdles.
Challenges are mileposts.
Things that we pass to mark the progress of our journey.
They say that every time an organized group (a team, a bible study, a church service) doubles in size, it has to rethink the way it does things.
Because systems designed for 5 people won’t work the same way for 10.
Or 20.
Or 40.
So if a something becomes dysfunctional, or inconvenient, you can take that as a loss -or you can say, hey, this is just a sign that we are growing - let’s make sure we’re doing it right.
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Be a movement - not a monument.
God’s progress always moves forward.
And if we want to see the spirit moving, we need to move with him.
But the truth is - we’ll see God do amazing things.
We’ll have these momentus times where we step back and go wow, that was great.
But there’ll be a temptation to us to simply build a monument, and stand around it and admire.
‘Look what we did!
This was great’
Then when new things come, different things, we’ll wave them off and say ‘No no no, that’s not this thing.
This thing is great!’
When God led Israel out of egypt, the israelites began to turn to foreign Gods in the desert.
They abandoned the one who drew them out of egypt with his mighty power.
They built new gods, and were content to simply worship them in the desert.
And I think one of the simplest reasons is this - they lost sight of the movement.
They lost sight of the goal.
And when you lose sight of the goal, challenges become threats.
Changes become injuries.
When you’re a movement, the spirit’s work means progress towards the goal.
When you’re a monument, the spirit’s work feels like tearing down all we hold dear.
Let’s be a church that wants to see more of God’s glory
not our own.
As we go into 2020, we face a crossroads.
We face the choice to either fight for our glory, or God’s.
To hold up systems and structures that lift US up, or to embrace the movement of the spirit that lifts up God.
When Jesus came, he drew his own disciples to Himself, and it was those disciples who were ALSO baptising people.
And so, it was a challenge to John’s position, to john’s ‘authority’, so to speak.
To John’s perceived role in life.
John’s response is amazing.
It’s important to note, that Jesus wasn’t actually baptising people - it was his disciples.
And John even lost some of his own disciples to Jesus.
So John saw this new group, this new ‘generation’ of believers, and when he saw that they were with Jesus, he said ‘My Joy is complete because I’ve seen Christ.
Now let’s let HIM become greater.’
When we see the next generation rise up in faith, with all the challenges and changes that that may bring to us, God is calling us to a great joy
So let’s all remember, that we’re a church that seeks to give GOD glory.
And the more people we see glorifying God, the better.
Even if it means challenges or growth on our part to accomodate - because it’s not about us.
It’s about God and his kingdom.
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