How Great Leaders Inspire Action
OUR WHY:
It is our vision. "A Jesus community helping students find their way back to God." Which is based in the fact that we believe God created a perfect existence, we call Shalom, and placed us as humans, in it. But Genesis 3 happened, and when it happened, it changed everything. And Genesis 3 still happens. The rest of the Story of God, the Bible, is a repeating and continual attempt by God to put His people, His family back together...to restore Shalom...for life to be the way it was intended to be. And the story is not over...it is not complete...it is still going on today.
The pathway for this restoration IS complete...that happened when Jesus said, "It is finished"...and followed those words by conquering death. But we as individuals, as a community and as a world find ourselves in the midst of this process of needing to, and finding our way back to Shalom. Therefore, church and it's other representations, are not about a place we go or a time we sector off in order to make our lives feel right...feel like Shalom. It is not about landing us in a better place someday...a place we call heaven. It is not about a list of do's and don'ts in order to create good people. It is about journeying back to Shalom, individually and as a community...which is an every moment, all of life...thing. We exist as a ministry because we believe the world is broken, and that we are broken...not the way it was intended to be and we believe that by doing what we do, we are on a journey and leading others into a journey towards experiencing and restoring Shalom, through what God has done and continues to do.
OUR HOW:
It is through our values. Belonging. Story. Restoration. Revolution. Creativity. They must guide both what we do and DO NOT DO through the heartbeat of our why.
OUR WHAT:
There are undoubtedly other ways to see our why lived out, but we choose to live it out in a few specific ways. Weekly worship (we call DIG). Small groups (we call them Community Groups). GROW Trips (mission and spiritual development trips). Service. Community Events.
2 comments:
That was probably one of the best Ted Talks I've seen.
Great insight on "why". I totally agree with you. An aquaintance of mine says, "it's not all about what we're saved from, but more about what we're saved for."
On a side note, I think many believer's are not living in the freedom of the finished work of Christ. In turn their "why" may be a bit skewed if they're in the continuum of "do's & don'ts" to earn God's favor.
Cynthia,
I couldn't agree with you more about the lack of "living in the freedom of the finished work of Christ."
If we don't have a grasp of what Christ has already done for us, it will never be able to inspire us to how we should live out of that reality.
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