Comments on: Reveal: Where are You?

By: Steve A

Steve A — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:33:27 +0000

Is Jim W. an example of what he quoted? Anyway, one of the cliches I used to hear to describe what the church is trying to do was “bring them in, build them up, and send them out.” I take that to mean that we first help the unconnected and disconnected to get connected to Christ. Churches such as New Spring and Granger have specialized in doing that. Then we get them into venues where they can start to grow up in Him, such as Bible classes and small groups. We teach them the priorities of Acts 2:42 and help them to devote themselves to Bible study, loving relationships with brothers and sisters in Christ, worship (particularly the Lord’s Supper), and prayer. Our goal is for each one to have that “God moment” like Isaiah had in Isaiah 6 where he heard God say, “Whom shall we send?” and he said, “Here I am; send me.” When they are ready to take on the mission of Christ, they are ready to make a difference for Him for the rest of their lives. Until our people come to the point where they trade in their agenda for the agenda of Christ, they’re not ready.

By: Jeff Gibson

Jeff Gibson — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:44:00 +0000

When we got our results from our Reveal survey, the hardest part for me was to learn that as people moved along the spiritual continuum, their small group involvement went up but their satisfaction went down. You can’t assume the small group environment by nature will make people Christ centered, it has to be one weapon in the arsenal…Willow suggested that the next step was smaller, deeper mentoring relationships.

By: Jim W

Jim W — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:24:58 +0000

[Tony's note: I think it's important to recognize the Jesus identified love for God and others as more important than acquiring knowledge. Just because you know more, doesn't necessarily mean you're more spiritual. In fact, some of the most biblically knowledgeable people I know, are also some of the meanest, most bitter and divisive people--folks I would classify as spiritually immature.]
The self-righteousness fairly oozes from this statement. Looked in a mirror, lately?